Jakob Nielsen on iPad Usability: First Findings
iPad apps are much improved, but new usability problems have emerged, such as swipe ambiguity and navigation overload.
No More Fear
Here’s the country I want to be a citizen of: the one that decides to buy comfort and convenience by deploying courage.
Stored XSS Vulnerability in Amazon (or How to hack Amazon with a book)
hacking Amazon with a book, Amazon stallowned, stored XSS
Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem
The lead in the last month or so was an indicator of having good chances, but there was a huge shuffling of ranks in the last week and some last minute casualties.
Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours
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How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime
I recently decided to change the way I was taking care of my body. It should be no surprise that I am always on my computer – at least 12-15 hours per day. I am 5' 9" but used to weigh an undesirable 170-175 pounds. Most of this was brought on during my first years of college. I entered college as a
A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory
William Kent, "A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory", Communications of the ACM 26(2), Feb. 1983, 120-125. Also IBM Technical Report TR03.159, Aug. 1981. Also presented at SHARE 62, March 1984, Anaheim, California. Also in A.R. Hurson, L.L. Miller and S.H. Pakzad, Parallel Architectures…
What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care
An article about why academic papers distributed in PostScript, what is LaTeX, and why you should care.
This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone.
This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone. Related posts: ePubs and iBooks and whether we care about the EULA. Ugh. More Flash. Do not read. Flash: a legacy technology Amazing ePubs