March 2010
24 posts
February 2010
29 posts
The Essential Man: On Friends →
Your time is valuable.
Time is like currency, and who you choose to surround yourself with and spend that currency on reflects who you are.
If you are to spend your money to buy crack, there is a high likelyhood you are a crackhead, or at the very least, increasing your chances to be one.
There…
Marco.org: Business Insider will probably add an... →
In a recent Stack Overflow podcast episode, Joel Spolsky mentioned that he’s probably going to formally end his popular Joel on Software blog next month.
He has been talking to someone named Jason who’s doing a pretty good job convincing him to “blog” privately instead, via email, only to a…
Hunch →
A collective intelligence decision-making system. From the site: “Hunch gives customized recommendations and gets smarter the more you use it.”
“Whether you’re a programmer or Web designer or developer, an artist, help-desk...”
– Geek - Jon Katz, introduction (submitted by brklyn) (via fuckyeahcomputerscience)
Texting is more popular than calling in the U.S.,... →
clientsfromhell:
Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”
Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”
Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.
[I load the other site]
Me: “The entire site’s done in Flash.”
Client: “Huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users.”
Client: “I know. Cool, huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users… none of...
Study at Stanford Finds Computer Science Students... →
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
A recent study by the San Jose Mercury News shows that at Stanford, cheating in computer science classes account for 22% of the university’s total honor code violations, despite accounting for only 7% of student enrollment…
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Or... →
Last spring, I took a security course. In one of the lectures, the professor put forth a strikingly similar argument. Open-source advocates belittle proprietary code as “security by obscurity,” but before you shout “oh yes!” consider the following two issues.
Interesting open-source software is huge, and requires a lot of effort to read and understand. Security-critical...
Why smart people defend bad ideas →
The Scribbler →
Computer-assistance in line drawing.
WatchAugmented reality maps, from Microsoft.
Rules of game design →
A letter from M.I.T. →
Pompous student replies to MIT. Along with some background about the letter.
“The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time....”
– The ninety-ninety rule
Simple Desktops →
stevenf:
In case you thought I was exaggerating when I said that the computer infrastructures of 2010 were too hard to understand for a vast number of people.
It’s easy to read this and be cynical about “how dumb everyone is”. But there are some seriously deep issues to analyze here for anyone interested in HCI.
privacy
ronwhitman:
The only people that don’t care about living their entire lives in public online with no privacy filters are the boring people.
Interesting people always have something to hide. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be interesting…
The future of UI will be boring →
The Setup →
A bunch of nerdy interviews. What tools do people use to get the job done?
Game development in a post-agile world →
WatchBig Think interview with Jason Fried, 37signals (via neutrino)
Why does time fly by as you get older? →
Hack This Site!
neutrino:
via hackthissite.org
Good old geeky fun.
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