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by qwzybug 16y ago
Bruce Sterling evangelizes the multitool in his Last Viridian Note: http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008_11_01_archive.html "I strongly recommend that you carry a multitool. There are dozens of species of these remarkable devices now, and
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I tend to agree that the recent focus on web technology has retarded the pace of actual innovation in the last decade. The smart people who should be building the jetpacks and curing cancer are making pets.com, or, no offense, founding YC s
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by qwzybug 16y ago
It's really very well done. Lots of obvious spots where it's 1.0 (can't select text, lots of ads for iPhone apps that don't link to the store [fail!], some interactions are nonobvious or a little clunky), but the experience is fantastic. Un
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Lots of tourers stick a paper map up there. If it's the 3G iPad following your location with the Little Blue Dot™, you could glance down to see upcoming streets/turns/merges. But yeah, for God's sake don't multitask on a motorcycle.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
The "fruit salad" visualization is beautiful.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I like monkey patching NilClass to STFU. Bonus: the code fits in a tweet! http://mobile.twitter.com/qwzybug/status/9033799293 Message-eating nils are one of my favorite features of Objective-C.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
TFA notes that the iPad seems to be cannibalizing iPod sales rather than Macs, though certainly there's no way to know for sure.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
It's amazing how quickly you can single out people using supposedly anonymized datasets like this. There's a CMU paper noting that 87% of Americans are uniquely identified by their birthdate, 5-digit zip code, and gender: http://arstechnic
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by qwzybug 16y ago
My buddy Justin wrote this last night: simple menubarlet to redirect facebook.com requests to a local webserver when you want. Using this and a sensible privacy setting ought to make Facebook much more amenable to privacy types.
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Faceblock: Mac utility to selectively block facebook.com requests(codesorcery.net)
5 points by qwzybug 16y ago|2 comments
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Gödel's theorem in particular lends itself to this sort of thing. For more mathematical schadenfreude, I like Franzen's "An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse" http://www.amazon.com/Godels-Theorem-Incomplete-Guide-Abuse/... Hackers wil
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by qwzybug 16y ago
If you're into this sort of thing, I highly, highly recommend M. G. J. Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors: http://www.amazon.com/Light-Color-Outdoors/dp/0387979352 The harvest moon is one of his favorite illusions, and there just
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Try shaving oil. It's fantastic, and a 1.5 oz. bottle is enough for near 100 shaves. Alternatively, a bar of shaving soap and a brush work well. More space than the oil though.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Semi-agreed. If you look closely, the mouse pointer (which they use to activate Chrome) is positioned over the "Forward" button in the browser; it looks like they let a page load completely, navigate back to Google, then the speed test is h
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Finally, the amazing user interface of git combined with the legendary server-side performance and scalability of mercurial!
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I'm glad that happens to you too. I thought I was going insane.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Super, super awesome. Just a few niggles: - The pi marker on the x axis stays fixed. As far as I can tell it doesn't really refer. - phi is increasing, but the construction of the graph makes it look like phi should be decreasing. Seems lik
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by qwzybug 16y ago
That was incredibly charming, and a well-composed limerick to boot. I spent the better part of a day once trying (and failing) to explain the difference between files, folders, documents, email messages, mailboxes, pictures, icons, programs
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by qwzybug 16y ago
If you press too far away you can make bad notes. This mode is actually pretty intensely fun if you try to tap the right places.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
Misses the point. Apple already released their TV and gaming console, and it's called the iPad.
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by qwzybug 16y ago
I think you need one more variable in there, but yeah that's the right idea :)
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by qwzybug 16y ago
There are a few of these (or similar) on display at the San Francisco Exploratorium; well worth a visit if you've never been. I made a simple RMagick script to generate these from animation frames. Turns out it even works well with full-col
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by qwzybug 17y ago
That's a very important distinction to make, which a lot of people elide right over (I'm looking at you, singularitarians). We've been moving really fast recently, but the destination is pretty mediocre in a lot of ways. C.f. Warren Ellis:
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by qwzybug 17y ago
Urban Airship has a similar service (even priced similarly): http://urbanairship.com/ Their focus is specifically mobile apps, & they have nice sample code for iPhone/Android/Blackberry. Gets spendy faster than Amazon, but I've used i
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by qwzybug 17y ago
UGC is overrated. He mentions this in his article: Twitter, e.g., is thinking out loud and not a lot more. Yeah, it's fun, but is it good for you? Sure, why not. Twitter's a conversation at least. But have you ever read a YouTube comment wo
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by qwzybug 17y ago
I think it's because they want to think of it as a system, not "just" a device. You never use the definite article before an operating system, for example, or a piece of software. "Download music on iTunes", "manage your photos with Mac OS
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Drunk Cycling(cheeptalk.wordpress.com)
11 points by qwzybug 17y ago|15 comments
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by qwzybug 17y ago
I feel compelled to link to some prior work in this area, 2002's A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation by Zammuto et al. (I can't find the books, they must be in La Jolla: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books/_/A+Dead+Fish+Gains+the+P..
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by qwzybug 17y ago
Also, ActiveRecord? No thanks.
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by qwzybug 18y ago
Cute, but having trouble seeing how that's any better than the grade-school algorithm it's based on. (What, we have to add in unary now? This is progress?) You still have to carry, you still perform n^2 operations for n-digit numbers; the d

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