Great work Visa, now I hate you: **If you want people to like you, give them something. If you want people to hate you, take something away from them. ** (Via Hacker News) Sage advice. Remember it well when you’re developing software–adding features is usually …
Read more →XOXCO - Is it time for password-less login?: “I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user needs to login, they enter their email address and receive a login …
Read more →Mom Charged With Hacking School Computers to Change Children’s Grades - ABC News: She has been accused of changing her daughter’s failing grade from an F to an M for “medical” in June 2010, and then changing her son’s 98 to a 99 in February 2012, nearly a year …
Read more →Closed for Business: A price-tag of one dollar is passive smoking. You’re killing people around you, for your own short-term benefit. (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Love that line. App store bonanzas are rare, and we’re seeing more productivity apps fall (see: …
Read more →Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media - CNET News: “Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with support, though he did not offer any details about the addition of any new …
Read more →Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser: Making web applications behave like their desktop counterparts improves the user experience dramatically; it’s faster and it reduces the proliferation of browser tabs and windows that can …
Read more →A future full-time job: Realistically, nobody has job security. It’s a myth. Even CEOs don’t have job security (see HP or eBay), except Steve Ballmer, who seems curiously immune to losing his job. (Via Marco.org) Great zinger by Marco Arment! The rest of the …
Read more →Software Inventory: Every product attracts new feature ideas, and you can’t implement ideas as fast as you can think them up, so you write them down, and this list is called the feature backlog. A lot of the ideas on the backlog are bad ideas, and you merely …
Read more →Apple is Limiting the New Google Chrome for iOS. - (by @baekdal): Apple wants control and force people to create native apps, and are thus limiting the performance of web apps in third party apps. There is no reason why the iPhone and iPad comes with two …
Read more →Cisco provides a lesson: This is why anyone who makes excuses for closed source in network-facing software is not just a fool deluded by shiny marketing but a malignant idiot whose complicity with what those vendors do will injure his neighbors as well as …
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