‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’: Even Research In Motion Ltd.’s much maligned BlackBerry PlayBook has seen some recent success after several discounts and promotions. (Via Daring Fireball) Seriously? They’re that eager to malign the …
Read more →People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say - Yahoo! News: “Nagel concluded that democracies rarely or never elect the best leaders. Their advantage over dictatorships or other forms of government is merely that they “effectively …
Read more →ARC Gotcha – Unexpectedly Short Lifetimes: ARC is within its rights to release the object between fetching theCGColor and setting the layer’s background color. ARC variables are released as soon as the optimizer decides that they are no longer referenced, so …
Read more →Give it five minutes: There’s also a difference between asking questions and pushing back. Pushing back means you already think you know. Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions. (Via Signal vs. Noise) This reminds me of Marshall …
Read more →Where bullets flew, he jotted notes. Where despots abused, he documented crimes. Where war raged, he skulked in its midst, shouting the stories of common people with torn lives. Armed only with his wits and Microsoft Word, he flung himself repeatedly into …
Read more →Easy with the alerts: It’s like mistakenly asking for an extra fork with your ice cream and having the waiter just go ahead and bring an extra spoon, rather than needlessly correct you. (Via venomous porridge) Nicely phrased indictment of the misuse of alerts, …
Read more →The mad dash to remove something before the deadline: Just like you shouldn’t let sunk cost determine future decisions, don’t let sunk design trick you into keeping something in your product because you already put the work in. If it’s non-essential, take it …
Read more →Yesterday, my son’s iPhone 4 was stolen, which raises a cluster of inconveniences. Replacement cost, of course, is non-trivial. The pains don’t end there, though. He was planning to hold out for the iPhone 5, assuming it would be released in the fall, and now …
Read more →I Have No Idea: My advice is to train yourself to recognize and note the small (but important) reactions that you have when you’re working with your own apps. Dismiss your professional knowledge about the effort it will take and consider the experience alone. …
Read more →Why Apple’s A5 Is So Big, And Siri Is 4S-only: Integration of Audience’s EarSmart on the iPhone 4S’ A5 could explain why Apple decided to not offer Siri on older devices, and why it will likely only feature the voice-based assistant on newer devices going …
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