Category: Quick Posts
Design Shack – UI Design: Should We Really Be Afraid of the Uncanny Valley?
Good points, a little bit of realism isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but just don’t take it too far.
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.
Facebook Engineering Blog – Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
The point is to demonstrate Facebook is working at a high scale much like Google and they aren’t opening up anything that actually makes them their real money.
NYTimes.com – “Serious”
Serious is making stuff up apparently.
NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel
I love that term voodoo economics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to understand some of the ridiculous assumptions made.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Fully-qualified Nonsense in the SSL Observatory
What stupidity.
GitHub – joeytrapp/UUID-Cache-Behavior
One of my co-workers built a CakePHP plugin to add a caching behavior to your models.
ThinkProgress – Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Apparently it’s totally justifiable to spend most of your money on advertising and salary (a salary which only 1.50% of all Americans make that or better) for a non-profit and basically nothing on your non-profits actual mission.
ericbieller.com – What makes iOS user experience so much better than Android?
In a nutshell these were more or less my main issues with the experience of using an Android phone.
NYTimes.com – Pandora Discloses a Privacy-Related U.S. Inquiry on Apps
Wonder when we’ll start hearing something what this investigation into mobile advertising and I presume privacy is trying to discover.