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Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle
One thing that strikes me about Chrome OS and Litl is that neither bother trying to do everything Windows or Mac OS X can do. Not even close. I don’t think either even bothers trying to serve as one’s primary computer.
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Paul Buchheit: Open as in water, the fluid necessary for life
"Open" is a great thing. Everyone likes it. Unfortunately, nobody agrees what open is. There are many meanings, but in general, I think "ope...
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Developers: You Are What's Wrong With the iPhone AppStore
instapaper for iphone is $5. I've bought a bunch of games for >$3. It is addicting.
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Apple's Mistake
November 2009 I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken. The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they've ever done. Their reputation with…
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Closure. "I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design."
For those that know me, I’m kind of a “life is too short” kind of guy. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back. However, in catching up with the VP of Sales of Ardent last night, I was rem…
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Microsoft makes patent claim for sparklines
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Gruber: The OS Opportunity
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
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Microsoft's New Killer App
This message is coming to you via a simple NodeJS application that's live on your Droplet! This droplet is all set up with NodeJS, PM2 for process management, and nginx.
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How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball
Will…You…Play…Black Knight Again?? There is a reason I live in Winnetka and not in Evanston. And it’s not because, as Sandeep would put it, I like to get up 30 minutes earl…
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A very clever idea to enforce copyright with minimal lawsuits.
One reason the record industry's strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual infringer will know that he is very unlikely to be sued, and deterrence will fail. Or so it might seem …
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Cryptographic voting system developed by MIT prof has first real world trial
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.
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Rogue Amoeba abandons iPhone because of App Store approval insanity
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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The Nerd Handbook
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That's the nerd working on his project in his hea
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Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?
Verizon’s cellphones are designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill for its mobile Web services, even if you immediately cancel the action.
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Reddit launches self-serve ad tool (buy a sponsored link for as little as $20)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
We began this analysis of corporate life by exploring a theoretical construct (the Gervais Principle ) through the character arcs of Michael and Ryan in The…