This diff is one of the most beautiful things that’s ever appeared on my monitor:
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I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating — there’s very little on this earth more satisfying than deleting code. It’s not the same with fiction: culling prose is like murdering your darlings; deleting code is like picking [...]
Mark Pilgram dishes out some sage advice:
I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, they invariably ask what word processor I use. It doesn’t fucking matter! I happen to write in Emacs. I also code in Emacs, which is a nice bonus. Other people write and code [...]
David Dalrymple peers into our internet-augmented future:
Within the next 50 years, I expect the development of direct neural links, making the data that’s available at our fingertips today available at our synapses in the future, and making virtual reality actually feel more real than traditional sensory perception. Information and experience could be exchanged [...]
There is, in this middle of this spittle-flecked and mostly incoherent anti-Android screed, a deeply troubling complaint about the Android market:
Seriously Google, you take no responsibility for the actual “experience” of this phone, yet you tout it as your tag line. Applications in Android Market don’t work for all devices. They have to [...]
Just ran across an infuriating column1 from David Pogue, whose stuff I usually love. It’s a review of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, an amazing app that transcribes speech into text with genuinely impressive fidelity.
Unfortunately, Pogue devotes half of the column to a rant about the “paranoid” people who are complaining about the app’s privacy [...]
From Paul Graham’s fantastic piece on the iPhone App Store:
The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they’ve ever done. Their reputation with programmers used to be great. It used to be the most common complaint you heard about Apple was that their fans [...]
My favorite iPhone game, LED Football, just got better. And by better, I don’t mean that the characters on the screen have begun to resemble actual football players, or anything. No: they still look like red line segments, as God intended.
But note the up and down buttons:
See those wear patterns? They actually get worse the [...]
The new OpenOfficeMouse has been generating a lot of buzz lately, mostly because of its proud array of buttons — 18 in all — and its built-in joystick:
Now, what can you do with 18 buttons, 52 commands, and a joystick? The answer is anything you like. The ability to assign application functions to [...]
Pierre Igot discovered that the click-through behavior in Snow Leopard’s Finder has progressed from unintuitive to batshit insane:
How is the user supposed to “know” and remember intuitively that click-through now only works in icon view mode and not in list view mode and column view mode? And how is the user supposed to [...]
From TG Daily:
Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon.
Also this, from David Pogue:
Yeah, that’s the thing. With 90-whatever percent of the market, Microsoft would have a hit if it did nothing but change the Windows color [...]
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