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"This is worth repeating. It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology is not enough. It’s tech married with..."

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:29:50 +0900

““This is worth repeating. It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology is not enough. It’s tech married with the liberal arts and the humanities. Nowhere is that more true than in the post-PC products. Our competitors are looking at this like it’s the next PC market. That is not the right approach to this. These are post-PC devices that need to be easier to use than a PC. More intuitive.””

- Steve Jobs on the iPad 2 – 52 Tiger

BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:10:45 +0900

BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer

ART=WORK · How to Become an Expert

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:53:25 +0900

ART=WORK · How to Become an Expert

Lost World's Fairs

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:27:24 +0900

Lost World's Fairs:

失った万国博覧会

Webstock2011 Notes

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:57:48 +0900

Webstock2011 Notes:

Crowd-sourced session notes (using Google Docs) from WebStock 2011.

"all recruiters are welcome to submit candidates. The number of candidates you send us will determine..."

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:51:24 +0900

“all recruiters are welcome to submit candidates. The number of candidates you send us will determine your search fee. We figured, agencies who refer only awesome candidates—and who save us time—deserve a higher fee. For recruiters who want to increase their chances by referring more candidates, we simply agree to adjust the fees down.”

- Careers - Atlassian

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome | The Invisible

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:54:29 +0900

A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome | The Invisible:

On Google Chrome’s well thought out tab closing behaviour, with a comparison to Safari.

My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:39:01 +0900

My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design:

Aza Raskin recounts a personal story about the last gift he received from his father, the late Jef Raskin.

"Some of the rationale behind Pharen: Abstract out problems and irregularities in PHP’s own parser..."

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:58:31 +0900

“Some of the rationale behind Pharen: Abstract out problems and irregularities in PHP’s own parser and the language itself. Compile more sophisticated features, such as closures and macros, to native PHP. Insanity.”

- From Introduction to Pharen

Pharen is a “compiler that takes a Lisp-like language and turns it into PHP code.”

Photo

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:21:48 +0900

littlebigdetails: Offcial Twitter app for iPhone - Dragging...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:54:29 +0900

littlebigdetails:

Offcial Twitter app for iPhone - Dragging down the whitespace of reply screen shows what tweet you are about to send reply.

/via Lowply

"In a conversation years ago, [Steve] Jobs said he was disturbed when he heard young entrepreneurs in..."

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:03:00 +0900

“In a conversation years ago, [Steve] Jobs said he was disturbed when he heard young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley use the term “exit strategy” — a quick, lucrative sale of a start-up. It was a small ambition, Mr. Jobs said, instead of trying to build companies that last for decades, if not a century or more.”

- From “Can Apple Find More Hits Without Its Tastemaker?” — NY Times (via Signal vs Noise)

My RSS System / patrickrhone

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:00:31 +0900

My RSS System / patrickrhone:

Patrick Rhone (curator of Minimal Mac) introduces his scheme for categorizing feeds to help him handle monitoring lots of feeds in order to find good content.

His scheme is simple: folders for an “A-list”, “B-List”, “Friends”, “Other”, and a “Probation” folder for newly added feeds still being evaluated. It is a simple and easy to implement scheme, so I’ve copied it for myself.

"And then, of course, the second act is about how they become evil despite themselves. It’s like..."

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:15:00 +0900

“And then, of course, the second act is about how they become evil despite themselves. It’s like Animal Farm. The pigs make all these noble rules, and then systematically subvert them.”

- On Google, and evil — John August (via Daring Fireball)

"Apple reaches for greatness without apology. Market share and profitability are important only as..."

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:08:22 +0900

“Apple reaches for greatness without apology. Market share and profitability are important only as outcomes. They are not its purpose, which is to achieve the “insanely great.””

- Apple And Our Culture, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via Daring Fireball)

HTML is the new HTML5

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:02:49 +0900

HTML is the new HTML5:

The WHATWG HTML spec can now be considered a “living standard”. It’s more mature than any version of the HTML specification to date, so it made no sense for us to keep referring to it as merely a draft.

Like most web applications, the WHATWG’s HTML specification is now “versionless” and will be continuously maintained. From the FAQ:

…new features get added to them over time, at a rate intended to keep the specifications a little ahead of the implementations but not so far ahead that the implementations give up.

It’s all about features, not a monolithic standard.

"Bad fits make us curmudgeonly. We loathe what we have because it’s not quite right. It injects..."

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:41:33 +0900

“Bad fits make us curmudgeonly. We loathe what we have because it’s not quite right. It injects friction needlessly into processes we wish were fluid. A bad fit restricts movement, and life is about movement.”

- Frank Chimero - Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In

R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts - NYTimes.com

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:16:02 +0900

R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts - NYTimes.com:

Nonetheless, starting in about 1991, they worked on R full time. “We were pretty much inseparable for five or six years,” Mr. Gentleman said. “One person would do the typing and one person would do the thinking.”

Interestingly, the above quote seems to indicate that R is a child of pair programming.

"If you ever have to say ‘lighten up’ to someone, you’ve failed twice. The first..."

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:26:49 +0900

“If you ever have to say ‘lighten up’ to someone, you’ve failed twice. The first time, when you misjudged an interaction and the other person reacted in a way you’re unhappy with, and the second time, when you issue this instruction, one that is guaranteed to evoke precisely the opposite reaction you’re intending.”

- Seth’s Blog: Self-destructive instructions

"Imagine a new restaurant that wants to make the most of their burgeoning lunch traffic. They start..."

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:16:38 +0900

“Imagine a new restaurant that wants to make the most of their burgeoning lunch traffic. They start serving low-quality meat: after all, it’s cheap, plentiful, and requires nothing more than placing a different order with their distributor. For a few weeks, profits are up. But pretty soon, so are customer complaints, and the stars on their Yelp page are rapidly dwindling. The owner doesn’t understand. The meat isn’t great, sure, but it’s perfectly edible, and for a while it seemed like the restaurant was making more money and attracting new customers. What went wrong?”

- Alex Payne — Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms via Daring Fireball

Alex Payne on how choosing a cross-platform solution over a native solution is often a matter of putting the expediency of the business ahead of the experience of your customers.

Cross-platform solutions always sound like a good idea in theory, but always fall short in someway or another.