January 2012
30 posts
Why I Hate Android
A good article on the matter.
parislemon:
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.
I should probably explain.
Believe it or not, I...
519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
I think we can further this by saying, ‘to hide guilt with an apology is a greater sin than no apology at all.’
When people say, ‘I’m sorry you feel that way,’ it does nothing for my opinion of them.
518. Expect no sympathy for a hangover. And give...
December 2011
14 posts
Why Buy The Cow For $1.2 Billion When You Can Get... →
This would be great.
parislemon:
VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar reports not only that HP was trying to sell webOS for $1.2 billion (the same price HP paid to get all of Palm just last year), but that Facebook was one suitor they met with.
While Hardawar cites a source saying that this deal “was practically laughed out of the room”, I wouldn’t totally put the idea of webOS and Facebook to...
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A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →
It seems no-longer appropriate to call unconscionable behavior rat-like.
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater...
10% of this year's Sundance selections raised... →
Flipboard for iPhone →
parislemon:
I think my favorite thing about Flipboard for iPhone is that it’s not a simple port of their iPad app. They definitely could have gotten away with that since their iPad app is brilliant. But the form factor and the use case of the iPhone is different. That’s obvious to say, but it’s surprising how many developers seem to ignore that.
Flipboard for iPhone is a revelation in beauty...
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) →
minimalmac:
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the...
November 2011
14 posts
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“From Siri’s acceptance or rejection of our commands or requests, comes a...”
– I mentioned this earlier. I think it will be good.
lonelysandwich: Human-computer-human interaction
Fascinating thought and post by Adam Lisagor. If Siri (or other technologies like it) becomes hugely popular, might it change the way we speak to other humans?
That sounds ridiculous at first....
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