Category: Science

PhobosLab – The State of HTML5 Audio
I especially enjoy the specific complaints directed at Apple and Microsoft for only supporting MP3.
March 10, 2011
jacquesmattheij.com – what a programmer does for a living
I did something similar to this when teaching an Intro to Computer Science course.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law
Humans beat a law made up by humans.
March 8, 2011
GitHub – digdog – UIDickBar
Don’t use it, but you knew it was coming.
March 8, 2011
Arash Payan – Presenting, Appirater
Pretty useful piece of software for iOS developers.
March 6, 2011
Scientific American Blogs – Observations: Can we get off oil now?
The argument of drill here, drill now, doesn’t really mean much.
March 6, 2011
CSS–101 – Go fetch yourself!
It’s a little weird sometimes to think that the CSS selectors work from right to left, so if you end with an id, you just spent way more time on grabbing a DOM element, the browser grabbed with the id alone.
March 6, 2011
Seth’s Blog – The limits of evidence-based marketing
I know this to be true, that evidence doesn’t tend to change people’s opinion on a subject, but darn it, evidence really should change people’s understanding of a subject.
March 6, 2011
Encoded Records – Get your own #dickbar
So want to be labeled a dick like Twitter, go right ahead.
March 6, 2011
Bad Astronomy – Has life been found in a meteorite?
So has it, maybe, but it seems like the answer is leaning more towards no, as opposed to the yeses being heard in the media.
March 6, 2011