• Zoinks! The Pot Vending Machine Has Been Stolen by the Feds!
  A legally operated medicinal marijuana operation in Los Angeles was raided/robbed by federal DEA agents.
  (tags: marijuana california dea)

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• defmacro - Erlang Style Concurrency
  Another good explanation of what makes Erlang's concurrency / scalability design so compelling.
  (tags: advocacy concurrency erlang programming threads java)
• ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UCS, and Erlang (Sam Ruby)
  (tags: erlang unicode encoding utf8 ascii programming)
• Dukes of Erl
  These guys make some amazing tools for Erlang/Mnesia to make running distributed applications on EC2 clusters easier.
  (tags: blogs ec2 erlang fuse)
• Erlang Community - Main Page - Trapexit
  (tags: erlang programming community wiki)
• Radio UserLand: RFC: Labels in OPML
  Dave Winer: "Jim I look forward to someday introducing you to Doug. It would be an honor." That was about 7.5 years ago, thankfully Mr. Engelbart is still with us. And I *would* love to meet him some day.
  (tags: davewiner engelbart opml)
• Why I love working with family people - (37signals)
  (tags: 37signals business productivity programming startup software life family work)

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I wonder how Apple's deal with AT&T works for future iPhone models... for example, if Apple comes out with a new iPhone called the "iPhone 3G", is it possible for Apple to sell it without being tied to AT&T, since it isn't exactly an "iPhone"?

Or is Apple stuck with AT&T for all future phones they may release for the duration of their agreement?

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• Erlang Forum - Trap Exit - View topic - POP3 client library
  Looking for mail client libraries for Erlang, this thread is a keeper.
  (tags: erlang pop3 examples)
• Dryverl
  (tags: erlang c programming xslt binding)
• Notes from Scaling MySQL - Up or Out
  So Facebook has 1800 database servers, 1200 web servers, and 805 caching servers. In my mind I imagined they would be using more. Perhaps that's because I didn't know they use Erlang?
  (tags: database facebook scalability mysql flickr youtube sun fotolog wikipedia erlang)
• Inside Facebook Engineering
  I had never visited this page, but there it is, the list of languages they use... "PHP, C++, Perl, Python, Erlang, Java, and even a little bit of ML"
  (tags: facebook languages)
• Report: Twitter fires VP of engineering
  Fallout from the recent Twitter outages...
  (tags: twitter scalability)
• Facebook Development (in Erlang)
  There will be a followup link to a blog post announcing the open-sourcing of this code.
  (tags: api development erlang facebook programming web erlang2facebook)
• Erlang Facebook Code Open-source
  Facebook API client for Erlang
  (tags: erlang facebook api programming opensource erlang2facebook)
• erlang2facebook - Google Code
  (tags: api erlang erlang2facebook facebook library programming)

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I was on the phone with legal counsel yesterday when an email came in saying I would finally be paid (in increments, but paid nonetheless). Nothing like good timing!

Lessons learned:

• Demand up-front payment from new clients before starting work.
• Don't wait over 6 months before threatening legal action when a client doesn't pay a significant invoice.
• Invoice on a regular basis, even on a relatively short-term contract.

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