This month
OS X Isn't for Developers
If I want to release a great new Ruby gem that uses a C extension or library, I need to ask prospective users of that gem to: Spend $4.99 in the App Store Download a large 4.5GB file Spend a decent amount of time installing XCode Sacrifice 15GB of disk space to an app they likely won’t use Install my gem
December 2011
Ryujin Swords
November 2011
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
hmm comme d'habitude… oui les employés de FoxConn ont « choisi » de travailler comme des esclaves. Le choix est un mythe de société de gosse de riches.The most important thing to realize about the future is that it's a choice. People choose which visions to pursue, people choose which research gets funded, people choose how they will spend their careers.
October 2011
The Technium: The Technology of Global Unrest
an article called the New Socialism: that the decentralized socialism on the net would spill over into the other realms of life. You can't spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network and not begin to think that the rest of your world should also operate in the same way.
July 2011
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!
We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. (Here's why.) We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter...
June 2011
What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper – Marco.org
it means that * they have a huge user base ? * they lie about it ? * they spend too much time optimizing for devices instead for the Web. bad ROI I guess the test would be the number of paid customers by browsers.Today, fewer than 1% of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners are Instapaper customers, despite Instapaper spending a lot of time (including today) at the #1-paid-app spot in the App Store’s News category for both iPhone and iPad.
May 2011
Outsourcing Statistics 2011
April 2011
DeHamerspace » The Ultimate Gmail Browser
Helvetimail - josef richter
March 2011
Movie Color Palettes | Brandon Wolf Design
Cinematographers often spend a great deal of time making color decisions for a given film. Sometimes these choices are subtle, but often enough there are segments of films that have strong color themes, and I was curious as to how to view this in a single image.
from "The History of Love"
January 2011
HTML5^H: What it means to developers, standardistas, and browser vendors on Dion Almaer's Blog
Whether or not the HTML spec in the WHATWG is called HTML5 doesn’t really mean that much in the big picture. We need to solve the bigger problems. I hope that we don’t spend our time arguing over the politics of this or that, but on where we should go from here.
The Python Paradox
He says the main reason
is that he likes the way source code looks. That may seem
a frivolous reason to choose one language over another.
But it is not so frivolous as it sounds: when you program,
you spend more time reading code than writing it.
Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online
December 2010
Twitter / MitchellBaker: 100 or so Mozilla folks go ...
it's a joke? Mozilla reçoit de la part de Google de près de 10 fois le budget total du W3C.100 or so Mozilla folks go to see Tron -- first thing on the movie screen is a commercial for Chrome. Google's got a lot of money to spend!
Il y a environ 2 heures
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MitchellBaker
Scrolling and Attention (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.
November 2010
How men spend their money [Infographic] – Guyism
September 2010
Fuck Yeah Commuting — The Pop-Up City
j'aimerai beaucoup voir cela pour le japon. Commuting de 2h à 3h quotidienType in any zip code and see where people are commuting to/from and how much time they spend commuting. The interactive maps provide interesting information, however, the service does not work yet for European zip codes.
August 2010
Never Mind the Forex, When Did You Last See a 2,000 Yen Bill? - Japan Real Time - WSJ
coût de l'infrastructure matériellewhile others say it’s due to the fact it can’t be used in many of Japan’s more than 5.2 million vending machines (roughly one for every 23 people, according to the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association. Machine owners were unwilling to spend to adapt their machines to accept the new note
June 2010
Tuna’s End - NYTimes.com
Soon those tuna would be brought to feeding pens where they will spend at least several months putting on weight. Afterward, they will be slaughtered and sent to Japan, where 80 percent of the world’s Atlantic bluefin tuna are eaten with oblivion.
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April 2010
50 Inspiring, Awesome & Stylish Mac Setups | Mac.AppStorm
February 2010
'Supermax' prison draws attention in Gitmo debate - USATODAY.com

