February 2012
3 posts
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★ @UXYoda: Not just from the design team creativity must flow, if great products you are to build.
January 2012
14 posts
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★ @HackerNewsYC: Netherlands makes net neutrality a law http://t.co/mk98FFX4
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★ @mikeloukides: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to Software Development http://zite.to/wmP4K6
WatchASTRONOMICAL: Our solar system in 12 volumes, 1 million kilometers per page
Michael Lopp
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★ @mikeloukides: Graphene: The perfect water filter http://t.co/DQiANH0n
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★ @adage: Study: Only 1% of Facebook ‘Fans’ Engage With Brands http://t.co/leiyavgS
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★ @MatManferdini: Now even taking similar pictures is protected by copyright. This is getting insane. http://t.co/cQQYOiI0
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★ @bobulate: The reason there are no skyscrapers in the middle of Manhattan. The undoing of the Manhattan bedrock myth: http://t.co/Vkg4JPLB
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★ @GoogleCode: Google is working to make the web faster by speeding up TCP. http://t.co/tu0n5pm9
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★ @rands: The central nervous system of New York City — based on tweets: http://t.co/EjPqLpY3
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★ @rands: A Design Primer for Engineers: http://t.co/vdCVzELA
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★ @gigaom: The next big thing for data centers: DC power http://t.co/6fhMaGHt
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★ @bdc: Developing for modern browsers? You probably don’t need jQuery http://t.co/I3cHqFhM
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★ @timbray: Why not square sensors? http://t.co/XtZXiny9
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★ @rands: Famous logos, regular fonts: http://t.co/b3ROZHF9 (@kb)
December 2011
7 posts
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★ @GOOD: The greenest lightbulb ever, Earth-friendly Guinness, and smog-eating buildings: the year in green innovation http://t.co/C80Y38zP
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★ @mikeysan: The battle of who is more open is a war of usability attrition that no one wins.
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★ @leeclowsbeard: A great ad makes people forget the one that came before and ignore the one that follows.
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★ @mikeloukides: This sucks. Via fyodor: http://t.co/hBHhvFOt Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other Software http://t.co/Ct7NOfR3
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★ @mikepinkerton: Kindle Fire usability tests confirm Steve Jobs’ criticism of 7-inch form factor http://t.co/0oxiwAWw
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★ @leeclowsbeard: An interesting medium can never fully compensate for an uninteresting message.
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★ @dmoren: The problem with technology that’s indistinguishable from magic is that people start to treat it like magic instead of like technology.
November 2011
3 posts
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★ @CodeWisdom: “That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers: what they really hate are lousy programmers.” - Larry Niven.
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★ @nickbilton: Apple makes first changes to Its board since Steve Jobs passed away: http://t.co/L4OcmipS (Full article to come.)
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Adobe dumps Mobile Flash →
Steve Jobs, almost three years after the first iPhone shipped:
Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it.
Clearly, now we never will.
Fun fact: back in 1998, I was the grand prize winner for a sweepstakes run by Macromedia, called “Flash 3,...
October 2011
13 posts
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“Things are so anti-social that saying social media together is like saying...”
– Brian Solis, principal at the Altimeter group, on how ‘Social’ efforts are quite anti-social.
(The original Rocky & Bullwinkle reference, for the youngsters.)
David Murphy
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★ @kottke: Unicorns and wheels: Apple’s two types of products http://t.co/mBb7TeLP
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★ @kottke: Apple predicted Siri 24 years ago http://t.co/aMphW5PX
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★ @mantia: Comparison between AT&T and Verizon JPG rendering in Mobile Safari: http://t.co/dyDTsDga
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★ @gassee: Asinine: take the same hardware/software combo, stick it in in different case, call it iPhone 5 and ankle biters + pundits would be happy…
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★ @DanielEran: AppleInsider | iPhone 4S new 14.4 Mbps HSDPA 4G speeds won’t help Americans http://t.co/6ujZABtE
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★ @hackernewsbot: MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight… http://t.co/4JsVwDlH
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★ @wired: Great tale from NPR.org about how (and why) Niels Bohr dissolved two Nobel medals in an afternoon: http://n.pr/qyzhMY
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★ @FastCompany: Infographic: What’s Really Happening At Solyndra http://t.co/pM6Qo0zX by @MClendaniel
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★ @TheNextWeb: Instagram Hero converts much-loved filters to Photoshop actions http://t.co/71J9cYL4 by @CBM on @TNWapps
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★ @TheNextWeb: Adobe releases 6 new tablet apps, forgets that tablet means iPad http://t.co/JRublLyU by @BradMcCarty on @TNWapps
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★ @chockenberry: Install Xcode 4.1 and iWork apps won’t launch? Get CoreSymbolication in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks (from backup or install 4.2)
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★ @newsycombinator: How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence http://j.mp/8ivrIf
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★ @core77: Light Light’s Sublime Levitating Lamps: http://t.co/824WPcWP
September 2011
14 posts
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★ @hackernewsbot: Microsoft security tools nuking Chrome browser… http://t.co/Qi62O449
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★ @FastCompany: A Solar-Powered Alternative To Insecticides http://t.co/vEerpf63 by @arielhs
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★ @WiredFeed: Porsche’s Hybrid Racer Hauls Ass, Saves Gas: The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car delivered a beating to damn n… http://t.co/9p7wYREU
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★ @hackernewsbot: Introducing Google JS Test… http://t.co/W7x03iAU
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★ @ArsInfiniteLoop: Appeals court: Apple can continue to restrict OS X to Mac hardware: http://t.co/q0b6mLxH by @eJacqui
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★ @gigaom: Memo to media: A Facebook app is not innovation http://t.co/XAEvrhJz
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★ @techreview: A battery that has the long life and cheap cost needed to be practical for energy storage. http://t.co/YCniYDJp
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★ @hackernewsbot: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers… http://t.co/jhSuSw9Y
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★ @hackernewsbot: Fixing the callback spaghetti in node.js… http://t.co/CwFfyDLw