January 9, 2010 – Interesting thoughts on iPhone app development. Hillariously recalls the hideous stuff we had to see in the 80s from desktop publishing and in the 90s from web publishing before we all collectively got our act together and recognized that the old principles of typography and whitespace indeed still applied.
January 5, 2010 – Totally amazing geeky story of tracking down an impossible bug.
January 4, 2010 – A great post on hiring. Just like the author, I’ve let a few great ones slip away. His thoughts on “hiring for your career” are spot on. Your professional relationship with those you hire (or who hire you) is never over.
The way these meetings work, from what I’ve gathered, is as follows. Apple brings no hardware. They bring no software. They show no mockups. They do not even completely acknowledge that they’re making a new device. The people from Apple simply say something along the lines of, “If we were to create a new platform for book/magazine/newspaper content, would you be interested in offering your content for it?”
January 1, 2010 – This seems like kind of a big deal. I’ve never bought into the conservative complaint that people “walk on technicalities” but I can’t say this feels like the right outcome. How does the sixth guy who pled guilty feel? Ouch.
December 30, 2009 – Fascinating study on sex and intelligence. Among other fascinating results: Those with unusually low or high IQ are almost half as likely to have lost their virginity by 18 as their “normal” peers. Also sexual activity varies widely by chosen major with 85% of Math grad-students at MIT self-reporting as virgins. Wow! All the usual caveats about correlation and causation of course.
December 30, 2009 – Fascinating real-life story of a compulsive silver burglar.
December 30, 2009 – Real and interesting security hack from CSS parsing. I can’t imagine we’ll ever run out of these things to fix…
December 2, 2009 – This is classic
November 19, 2009 – Well at least we’re past the part of the argument where we say that the web browser and the OS are two fundamentally different products.
November 19, 2009 – The comments on this post are pretty classic. The gist, “Please just drop your renderer and use WebKit.” Harder and harder to justify why not right?
November 19, 2009 – This is very cool. Despite Microsoft’s overall problems, the office team continues to do great stuff. I recently converted to a mac and generally I’m very happy but I do miss the PV version of Word and Excel. Running in vmware doesn’t work as well as it should and the Mac versions are just not as good.
November 18, 2009 – Glad we got that sorted out.
November 18, 2009 – This kind of thing is what makes Google so good. The visible part of this seems marginally useful – but it shows the classification work that Google must be doing underneath. No doubt they’ve built a classifier that can put many pages in their catalog in some kind of global topic hierarchy. That is impressively far-sighted and when combined with other similar low-level “not immediately valuable” work will pay huge dividends.
November 17, 2009 – Wow wow wow. This is a huge deal. I bet Westlaw is quaking in their boots. And if they’re not, they should be.
November 17, 2009 – This is sad news.
November 13, 2009 – The S&P 500 since the day I graduated from college more than 10 years ago. It’s flat; actually down slightly. Lost decade? I think we just had one.
November 12, 2009 – Awesome post by Naval Ravikant. He’s dead on.
November 12, 2009 – This is interesting and an alternative explanation for the spiking price of gold.
November 9, 2009 – An NES coded in Javascript. Wow.
November 6, 2009 – Despite a rough start, the twitter guys have some pretty impressive engineering underneath. The fact that they can contemplate having a single message echo to effectively their whole network is hardcore. The scale implications of this are pretty substantial.
November 3, 2009 – Alex DeNeui in the news. Good stuff!
October 30, 2009 – Wow