January 2010
30 posts
“The market for potential iPad users is tremendous, possibly larger than the...”
– Mike Rundle hits the nail on the head. (via nikf)
“Too much complexity is for people who want to waste their own time. Who has time...”
– Brent Simmons in Bad Gravity
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WatchI just found out that you can share Flickr-Slideshows as an embedded Flash-video.
So, just because I can, here is a slideshow of my photos from the famous ‘Milford Track’ - a 4-day hike through the impressive Fjordland Nationalpark on New Zealands South Island.
You can even view that in full screen (what I recommend)!
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CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design →
Support all browsers to some degree – focus first on the latest and greatest browsers, and then go back and make sure that older browsers look and work reasonably well.
This reflects precisely my approach to creating a website/webapp. I love the new features of CSS3 so much, because they enable me - as a developer - to create a decent UI without having to mess around in Photoshop or write...
“Restraint is hard. Complication and elaboration are easy…and are common.”
– Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
“It always takes longer than you expect; even when you take into account...”
– [Douglas] Hofstadter’s Law. That is what I am really experiencing right now! (via merlin)
“It is your responsibility as a professional developer to properly document...”
– Tom Preston-Werner in Semantic Versioning
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“User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s still...”
– Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
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“[Paul] Feldman has also reached some of his own conclusions about honesty, based...”
– Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt in “Freakonomics”
Paul Feldman collected the money for the bagels by leaving a box in the office which he collected later that day.
Here’s the whole story of Paul Feldman, a.k.a. the “Bagelman”.
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“Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real...”
– Bruce Schneier, real American hero, from a 2006 post about privacy, resurfaced in rebuttal to Eric Schmidt’s comment that “if you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”. (via jimray) (via whiskyvangoghgo)
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“In a world with zombies you better fucking carpe diem. There’s no time to...”
– Why I love the Zombocalypse
(Speaking of being back from the grave) ;-)
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Mom: *sigh* The flight to Dubai takes so long.
Me: C'mon, it's not that long. You can try to sleep, you can read a book or use your laptop...
Mom: I can use my laptop?
Me: Sure!
Mom: But I'm not online, am I?
Me: No.
Mom: Then, what shall I do with it?
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“What I think [John Gruber] is getting at is the sentiment embodied by already...”
– John Siracusa in Antacid tablet
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In fact, as far as I can tell the “desktop OS” is basically a failure. Outside...”
– Whisky Van Gogh Go: why ChromeOS is a great idea
Agreed:
I believe there are millions of users out there that have a personal computer and only use it for doing stuff on the internet. And even if they do something else, using a classic desktop application - like writing the occasional letter...
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WatchForever’s Not So Long
I like the theme in movies when people realize their lives are finite and/or they are given just a short time left to live. Particularly interesting is what they do with that limited time…
“Fear mongering is a lousy profession, one that ought to be regulated, if not...”
– Seth’s Blog: Is there a fear shortage?
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2009 Ruby survey results
Here are some interesting survey results. “What other languages are Ruby developers familiar with? How do they code? What tools do they use?”
These and more questions have been answered by more than 1000 participants.
Below, you can read a summary of the results and/or visit the individual result pages which include all the details (what I recommend):
Demographic results
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“A broad swath of psychological and economic research has argued that people will...”
– Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt in “Freakonomics”
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December 2009
17 posts
Seven years gone →
Seven years from now, what will you have to show for what you’re doing right now?
If your answer is, “not much,” perhaps you should consider a new plan, one that might generate a different answer, or, at the very least, be a more fun way to waste seven years.
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