Bookmarks for 8 Sep 2010
- "I have read your website and it is obviously that your a foggot."
An e-mail conversation with David Thorne. (humour email ) - Rupert Murdoch’s Paywall Disaster: Readers, Advertisers, Journalists & Publicists All Hate It | Techdirt
"We had already seen the early indications that Rupert Murdoch's paywalls from The Times and The Sunday Times in the UK were a dismal failure, but as more information gets leaked about how the paywalls are working out, it's looking worse and worse." Alternatively one might point out that that sources in this story are a report from a rival paper with just one quote from an actual advertisers (the rest being pundits); and they seem to have converted 10% of their readers, which is surely good-to-excellent for the web. (timesonline paywalls business_models ) - Natasha Fondren » Kindle Formatting for Novels I
Imaginative formatting ideas for Kindle books. (kindle formatting html ) - More Thoughts on Scala’s Option Class – Stay on Target
"After reading a post by Cédric Beust that linked to an earlier article I wrote about Scala's Option class, I’ve decided to write about what I’ve learned about Option in the past two years." More on Scala's Option class. (scala programming_techniques ) - After the horse has bolted: Option in Scala vs null in Java
"Much as I was loving scala, neither of [my Java-oriented approaches to Option] were a great advance forward. [...] Until one day, with the help of my colleague Daithi, the realisation came: treat an Option as a collection with zero or one entries." (scala programming_techniques )
