November 2007
23 posts
WatchTED | Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video). Best use of presentation slideware I’ve ever seen.
Enterprise-y
YesNoFactory.getFactoryInstance().YES.getDescription().equals(array[0].toUpperCase()); Taking a Good Thing Too Far - Worse Than Failure
How Addicted to Apple Are You?
80%
“Study after study has shown that happy workers are productive workers and...”
– An Entirely Other Day - I’ve Got a New Attitude
“The programmer, though, wants to be involved deeply and profoundly in just a few...”
– An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep
WatchLearning optical illusions with Whitest Boy Alive
Dear gigantic Google database, It’s possible to install Mac OS X 10.5 Server onto a GUID-formatted harddrive on an Intel mac, and then put the drive into a Mac PPC G5 dual 2.0 tower, and it’ll boot and run fantastically, even though it’s not APT/APM. Now you know.
My system.log is now 302 megabytes. I get about ten of these a second: “… ISyncSession deleteRecordWithIdentifier: ignoring delete for unknown record …” WTF?
rdar://5596766: Summary Switching to an application when you don’t have a window open in it in the current space, switches to a space that does. This is okay for many applications. It’s not okay for an application that you are likely to use on many spaces simultaneously, such as Safari or the Terminal. Steps to reproduce 1. Open a Safari browser on your developer space, Space 1. ...
A visual tour of Android's UI - Engadget →
Not impressed. Possibly better than SonyEricsson’s (my current favorite among the ones I’ve tested), but not impressively so.
You only need to go to their site and get a quick whiff of the Enterprise-y smell to realize that Android feels too much corporate and too little google to be likely to be awesome. Please prove me wrong.
WatchTED Talks | Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
“It turns out that EBS works so well that all you have to do is keep the clock...”
– Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software. I might just have to use FogBugz on my next project.
Watch(For those that aren’t ultra-mac-nerds, this is a follow up on “Fixing God’s Horrible Mistake’s Fix”, which was a followup to “Fixing God’s Horrible Mistake”. Movie downloadable from my site).