April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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To make great software, you neither need to be a rockstar programmer or study CS. What you need is to understand human beings thoroughly.— Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs) January 2, 2012
January 2012
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“There is a colossal opportunity for companies to break this logjam and organize...”
– From the Foreword of Alan Cooper — The Inmates Are Running the Asylum.
I can’t believe this book is not a required reading in all Computer Science and Business Administration curricula.
August 2011
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Job descriptions →
TheSkeptic, over at Hacker News:
YC S11 Company Seeks Uber Python Dev
We’re a young company that’s so hot, we melt ice in our sleep. Some of our investors even believe we’re responsible for global warming. Out hotness is to be expected: our 5 founders hail from top engineering schools, and one even won $5,000 in a single night playing online poker when he was 13 (for...
July 2011
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Hide specific folders from the Finder
Update
I hate cluttering my Mac, and cringe every time I see a desktop full of stuff. So, you can probably tell how much I dislike when applications put their stuff in my candid Documents folder. 1
Fortunately though, Mac OS X features a way to hide them from the Finder. If you ever tried to list the root of your hard drive from the terminal, you probably noticed that it is quite different...
April 2011
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“I am building a prototype VM where performance is largely irrelevant. Yet still...”
– Jonathan Edwards — Delusions of Programming
iPhone headphone remote works on a MacBook
finermac:
If you plug an Apple iPhone headphone remote or compatible model into a MacBook you can control iTunes by pressing the button just like on the iPhone.
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January 2011
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“To stop worrying about it will require worrying about it a lot first.”
– Style is Substance — Ken Arnold
September 2010
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“Growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
– The Art of Learning — Josh Waitzkin
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“Why does Twitter work better for news than Google Reader? Simple, Twitter gives...”
– Dave Winer: How to reboot RSS
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Archive, a button for Apple Mail →
Enough said.
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App Store Review Guidelines for who don't have a... →
But if you do have one: http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
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Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines →
Apple removes the ban on third-party development tools and publishes the App Store Review Guidelines:
We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are making some important changes to our iOS Developer Program license in sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9 to relax some restrictions we put in place earlier this year.
In...
“Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the...”
– Scott Adams: Phone
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Arcade Fire live @ I-Day 2010 bootleg →
Thanks to a friendly YouTube user who recorded Radio 2’s broadcast of Arcade Fire live @ I-Day 2010 in Bologna.
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July 2010
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ClickToFlash ported by Marc Hoyois →
safariextensions:
An extension reproducing the functionality of the ClickToFlash web plugin.
Based on (or at least somewhat indebted to) Matt Ball’s ClickToFlash extension, Plugin Customs by Félix Cloutier, and Plugin Blocker by Rodger Combs.
Works even better than the original ClickToFlash and mattball’s version by catching the correct H.264 video URL even for embedded youtube and...
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View Source in TextMate for Safari
Have you ever had the need to check the source of the current page in Safari, only to discover this ugly little window that doesn’t do any kind of syntax highlighting?
Wouldn’t be neat to open it in TextMate instead? And wouldn’t be even more neat to have it as an item in a Safari menu?
Yes? Ok, so let’s create a custom service!1
First start Automator, select the...
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“Livingston: What is the key to excellence for an engineer?
Wozniak: You have...”
– Steve Wozniak - Founders at Work
June 2010
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“I have some easy rule-of-thumbs to follow:
1. whatever excites you, go do it...”
– It’s awesome that “someone”1 put it so clearly. I love risky and scary and exciting decisions because it’s amazing how many things you learn and how much fun you have.
Sometimes the hardest part can be to persuade the others involved in that decision. But if you...
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May 2010
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Sharing Git repositories with one command
Although it’s often better to use remote Git repositories, in a truly collaborative development environment such as hackfests or conferences1 it’s faster and simpler to share your repositories from your computer.
In those situations you have two ways to share your code without having to fight with user accounts, permissions, ssh keys and passwords.
Git daemon
To fire up a git...
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Steven Frank on Address Book and MobileMe vs.... →
If you’re contemplating this change, I highly recommend setting aside a few hours for research first. You may be unpleasantly surprised.
I experienced the same annoyances as Steven with Google Contacts. But I don’t have money for MobileMe.
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“If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming...”
– Chris Crawford on Game Design
Tumblewhat? →
Blogging has mutated into simpler forms (specifically, link- and mob- and aud- and vid- variant), but I don’t think I’ve seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickrings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog.
Only a genius like Why The Lucky Stiff could came up with such a name.
We miss...
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Watch
What started as algebra lessons for his cousins has turned into a world-changing project. Hundreds of thousands of users worldwide have benefited from Sal Khan’s friendly, accessible Youtube videos explaining math, science, and other subjects.
Sal has a vision of teaching the entire world, for free. His not-for-profit Khan Academy has the mission of “providing a high quality...
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Chris Delay of Introversion Software about... →
Everything takes a long time in this project, and i’m not entirely sure why. Even something simple like allowing the user to plant a bug on a cctv camera has turned out to be a massive job, with interface redesigns and heavy rethinking on how the player interacts with the world. I’m overthinking everything, always looking ahead to situations that won’t become problems for...