May 2010
18 posts
“A story I heard last night: Once upon a time, there was a man who thought he was...”
– elel
May 27th
Apple passes Microsoft as #1 in tech →
“This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and its co-founder and visionary chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force...
May 27th
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A New Type of Phishing Attack « Aza on Design →
(via sudobyte)
May 26th
May 25th
95 notes
Breaking up in a digital fishbowl →
May 25th
Top 10 privacy tweaks you should know about →
May 23rd
Code Spelunking: Exploring cavernous code bases →
May 23rd
A tour through the visualization zoo →
May 23rd
May 22nd
The Large Display Paradox →
“Users of 30-inch monitors face the terrible, terrible problem of how to effectively use all of that space. You don’t often want to maximise a folder or document window on a screen this big; either you’ll end up with a lot of white space and important program buttons separated by a vast expanse of nothing, or you’ll get lines of text 300 or more characters long, which...
May 20th
How to stop worrying and love the Internet →
This piece discusses the significance of the Internet as seen from 1999. It is interesting to see how well the author’s insights have held up to this day.
May 16th
The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun →
May 12th
May 12th
May 11th
Gaikai: Streaming Worlds →
“Gaikai takes a radical new approach that combines the best of both worlds. Now you can play the latest cutting-edge games anywhere there’s an internet connection – on any computer, even if it’s a few years old and misses 3D graphics hardware. There’s nothing to install, not even a browser plugin. And the games Gaikai supports are current games, ones never originally designed to be run...
May 11th
May 10th
Have we lost the desktop security battle? →
May 7th
What every programmer should know about... →
A gentle introduction to the subtleties of floating-point computation. It doesn’t have the rigor of the classic article or a proper course on the subject, but it is a far less intimidating starting point for most practicing programmers. PLEASE learn something about floating-point if you ever write code to harness it for calculation. Chances are, you will be deeply sorry if you don’t.
May 2nd