When a press release is laced with words like "handbag," "sophisticated," and "vibrates," it's clearly targeting the fairer sex.Like the watches, though.
This really is a significant feature, because a well-designed and responsive web application will be indistinguishable from any other desktop application.
Using an iPod was “frustrating”. Seriously. OK, the first one was DOA, but my father returned it to the Apple Store without incident. But because he didn’t have a music collection, he relied on me to fill his iPod with new music every so often. The first time he went to recharge it, he plugged it into his Mac and iTunes “helpfully” wiped it and refilled it with the few songs that were in his iTunes library. Of course he didn’t realize what had actually happened until he went to the gym the next day and had virtually no music (and certainly no good exercise music). His next thought was that I should refill it, and then he would just copy the music from the iPod to his iTunes library. This led to a long discussion of why iTunes wouldn’t let you do that, and how this was technically different from me letting him borrow one of my CDs, and how if he really wanted to do that there were utilities but not from Apple, and so on and so forth. So yeah, my parents switched to Linux because — among other reasons — it was easier to use with their iPod. That’s how badly Apple has lost the plot.2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop (...but it didn't last)
I never really understood how people found bugs like this until I had kids
Somehow I think we think that cool technology equates with cutting edge culture and this comes from a weird understanding of culture.I'm working on the third installment of my Antipocalypse series for Movement magazine. The first two can be found at the writing section of my website. The first two are fictional. The third is not; it is a description of what I was shooting at with the first two, "Documentation." It comes closer to some conclusions on the subject:
Culture and coolness is local. It’s all local. When I am in rural Saskatchewan, a leather John Deere ball cap is cool and a very important part of culture. Yet when I hear people in the church talk about culture, we talk about “emerging culture” (there is no such thing), or global culture (sorry, culture is awfully localized). The thinking is what is cool in San Francisco or New York is going to be cool in Saskatoon or Calgary is incorrect. I always cringe when I read my blog as being listed as an important blog to read for understanding culture. That is totally incorrect, you don’t understand culture by reading a blog about culture...
About half my clinical obsession with web technologies is driven by an ADD-fueled love of all things new and shiny. The other half comes from a fascination with how the technology allows a boolean-packet level quantification of not new behaviors, but ways-of-being that predate history.I'm still working on what comes after that but...I just re-worked something from a semi-recent blog entry:
...The technologies we employ to facilitate these social transactions, they so often seem to be built with the intention of removing deceit, but...
The tools communicating meaning have replaced actual meaningfulness. And without actual meaningfulness we lose context. And without context we become vapid. We become an un-unified theory of everything...we will continue to make attempts at tools that will give agency to what essentially amounts to some vaguely aesthetic abstraction of our desires.All this on the day I'm missing startupcamp in Austin. I'm in a forced get-what-you-can-get-done-while-you-can-d
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook speaks to CNET News.com’s Dan Farber about the balancing act between innovating quickly and building a stable infrastructure at a company moving at breakneck-speed. Heiliger also discusses what he’s doing to scale data center operations and support the addition of more than 250,000 customers on a daily basis.Interesting video for those of us in this business. I've always been impressed to the point of disbelief that Facebook has scaled a PHP application as successfully as they have. There is a bit near the end where he talks about storing data locally that I didn't really catch for the screaming kid, but it sounded intriguing, at least in the sense that they are thinking/talking about that option.
What makes the protocol buffer so popular with the pretentious little shits? Aside from wanting to put it on the CV they send to Google every three months, it’s got scalability written all over it. Oh, scalability: the problem that tens of thousands of engineers yearn for, but only six actually have.One of my favorite bloggers is back with a column in the Register.
we naturally want to apply a lot of optimizations to source code and catch bugs as early as possible. Both of these goals are directly facilitated by Java's static type system and the existence of great Java IDEs. That is why we, dispassionately, chose to center GWT on Java technologies. That's it — no fodder for language wars here....to which I say, fine, great...but why such a big deal?! Especially the way the above post made it sound--why would I care to use GWT if I'm just going to write everything in Javascript? The syntax for the in-Java Javascript, as I understand it, essentially escapes it--so no debugging there. Without a GWT-specific Eclipse plug-in, the code won't even be colorized correctly.
// Lots of stuff about JSNI, which lets you put raw Javascript into your GWT Java code...
Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows".
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
You can’t destroy or diminish Deep Ellum. It was here long before all of the shiny shopping malls, the overpriced corporate live music venues and trendy “red velvet rope” clubs with their snooty bottle service. As was referenced time and time again last night, the area is the cradle of this city’s creative sensibility.-- Jeffrey Liles via finelinelive.com
If you’re content to live in a vacuous, benign existence with little sense of purpose or meaning, then stay at home and jerk off your X-Box.
If you wanna break out of a routine that offers little or no spiritual or creative inspiration, then know you will be embraced and made to feel part of this very eclectic creative community.
...There’s nothing to be afraid of.
We rail against suburbia, but it is not the enemy: it is only our version of the enemy.
In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message...I normally don't have enough time for Paul Graham's cogitative essays, but this one caught my attention: I wonder what Dallas' message to its inhabitants is?
We'd still allow you to retrieve your friends_timeline for the authenticating user, just not the authenticating user looking at another user's timeline. This latter method forces us to do a fairly complex query that, when not cached, can be pretty painful.I so want to be a fly on the wall at TwitterHQ. I've vented about Twitter performance before. Now they're ripping out long-standing functionality like crazy (hi paging! wait, aren't you a basic feature of every content-based site ever?), turning off IM for everyone* (supposedly over a single errant API user, begging the question, why not just ban that application until things are cleared up?), and getting really smarmy when accused of allowing abuse within their
How many of you actually make use of this method? Should it stay or should it go? I can say that the equivalent view on the web is going away in all likelihood. You'll still be able to see who another user follows, but not in timeline format.
irritated
Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) [Scobleizer]. Good lord. Yes, you are a geek. But the worst possible kind. There is a fine line between "This suxs" and "Fire! Burn! Loot!"
sick