Category: Quick Posts
Ars Technica – Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn’t get the iPad
Steve Ballmer clueless on what makes the iPad such a phenomenal computing device.
EETimes – The legend of the superprogrammer
Really awesome programmers don’t help when the complexity of the project is so larger one person can’t manage the project themselves.
FiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live Cap-and-Trade
Nate Silver once again wins points for not just being a great statistician but an astute political observer.
52 Weeks of UX – Time to Delight
Let’s focus on making great software that delights the customer, ok.
BBC News – US border violence: Myth or reality?
BBC News gets into the act on discussing the myth behind the Texas/Mexico border being super violent.
Skepticblog – The Reasonableness of Weird Things
People believe in irrational things because they accept the evidence for it, they just typically don’t access all of the evidence or the evidence that is more accurate.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
New exceptions to the DMCA, the most important of these has to be the ability to break DVD encryption for fair use.
bluesmoon – Handling Date/Times and timezones
What are the basic rules for storing times in a web application.
Drawar – Sometimes A Grid Can Save You
A grid is an important design element for almost all designs.