“ The simple fact that most or all of [Apple’s] competition haven’t really comprehended what Apple’s advantage is yet - it’s ascribed to design as in “pretty”, strong brand as in “luxury” and customer loyalty as in “Apple users are fools”. This cluelessness has given Apple a head start unlike a common technology arms race, and frankly there’s no sign that their competitors are about to “get it”.
Arru in the comments to Moonwatcher’s Why Doesn’t Apple Face The Innovator’s Dilemma?
What I got out of this article is (and yes, I’m going to ruin the punch line now), if the US tv-watching population got up and wrote a few words on wikipedia every time ads came on, and wikipedia was started, completely from scratch, on Friday night, the entire history of wikipedia — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — would have been completed by Sunday night. One weekend. Just the time spent watching ads during one weekend. That completely boggles my mind.
“ The men who program in C are Real Men. The women who program in C are Real Men too. You can spot a C programmer from their testosterone fueled swagger, and the unbelievable amount of contempt they inject into the phrase Java “programmer”.
Urban Dictionary: C++ via @violasong
Since there doesn’t seem to be a single piece of documentation or example on the use of the context option for file_get_contents, and everyone’s actually setting the PHP app’s ini value for timeout (euugh) instead of doing it right, I thought I’d feed this to google:
These were not really things that I didn’t already know. Stated so boldly, however, the facts really shock me. I get the sudden urge to build a bunker powered by solar cells, and prepare for the inevitable war for our dwindling resources. (Video, audio, transcript)
“So no matter how you cut it, in your life expectancy, you are going to see the peak of world oil production.”
Can someone please explain to me why this is fails? I’d be very, very grateful. I must be missing something very essential, and I thought I had begun to grok rails by now… It worked great for a while, and then suddenly stopped working.
I agree with everything that Gruber writes about in his latest article. A friend of mine went majorly goddamned-mac-zealot on me and his article (had to explain not once but *twice* that Gruber wasn’t saying “FF should be exactly as Safari” but “Safari beats the Mac port of FF on a number of points” :P) All is well and good though, as he found a fix for the most annoying UI element of FF3 for me: single-click-selects-entire-URL. I almost screamed from frustration from just trying to edit the URL a few days ago. Here’s how to fix it, though:
Go to about:config (type it in the location bar and type enter)
Filter on “clickSelects”
Double-click on the row that says “browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll” to set it to false.
Now when you single-click in a Firefox location bar, it’ll place the caret in it; double click will select word; and triple-click will select the whole line, just like in a Mac app.
Addendum: Okay, so Voxar tried to convince me that Safari’s location bar was idiotic and illogical (of course only from reading Gruber’s article and not trying it out, even though he has a Mac on his desk :P), and challenged me: if Safari always highlights the first autocomplete entry when you type an url, wouldn’t it be VERY cumbersome to enter e g “http://daringfireball.net/2008/” when the only URL in your history is “http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/firefox_3_safari_3”? The answer is of course, no :) In Safari, you type “da[right-arrow]2008[backspace][enter]” and you’re done with it. The same scenario in Firefox would require you to type the entire URL in by hand, since the autocomplete would be completely useless (even the AwesomeBar would be stumped!). Now I remember why I love Safari :) (Watch It In Full Motion.)
