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"Let’s take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends…"
Thus starts an analogy from Michael Wolfe to explain why software development task estimations are regularly off by a factor of 2-3.
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"The difference between a pirate and an emperor is one of scale only. And that’s the position we find ourselves in here: the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and its allies have twisted the discussion so we’re talking about the wrong thing. We shouldn’t be talking about the small-scale piracy of individual movies (which probably helps sales in the long run, as we’ve observed in the publishing business). We should be talking about the real piracy, the wholesale takeover of creativity by the media industry. That’s the piracy we should be outlawing."
Mike Loukides on Pirates and Piracy
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"If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas."
Raspberry Pi explaining why they couldn’t manufacture their computer in the UK as they wanted to
(Source: raspberrypi.org)
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"A lot of the serious players… just like clicking a cow sometimes. It’s very innocent; they just like clicking a cow"
Ian Bogost - a game designer, lecturer and author - on his satirical creation cow clicker in part of an interesting article about how despite it being a throw-away idea criticising social/ facebook games it was unexpectedly successful
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Some pretty amazing future tech from Microsoft Research (where approximately 1% of all Microsoft employees work on “far out research”!
(Source: youtube.com)
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"We live in a three-dimensional world. Our hands are designed for moving and rotating objects in three dimensions, for picking up objects and placing them over, under, beside, and inside each other. No creature on earth has a dexterity that compares to ours."
Bret Victor’s rant on the future of interaction design (hint: the future isn’t a touchscreen)
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Notes"Trying to make this hard for me will only lead to accidents like Java, where nothing is breakable, because nothing works to start with."Juraj Kirchheim on the haXe mailing list
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Very cool video of morphing 3d shapes - the amazing thing is they actually physically made these things and recorded it as a stop frame animation (see the making of)
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NotesDan Pink’s very interesting talk about what motivates us
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That’s some crazy guitar playing
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Notes"And make no mistake, bartering away your “one and only youth” (jwz again) working 100-hour weeks on a web site for the promise of a big fat carrot on the end of a stick 80 million lines long, dangled by a fat statesm–venture capitalist, who will make 3x or 10x or 100x more than you, in the vanishingly unlikely scenario that you “succeed”… is clearly stupid."Amy Hoy on why startups are one long con
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Notes"People will spend hours researching a $2 purchase, browsing reviews, emailing the developer, checking online forums. Then they will go to a coffee shop they’ve never been before and buy a $4 coffee. From the developer they expect unlimited support, unlimited free updates. From the coffee shop they expect nothing except mediocre coffee."Shifty Jelly on the realities of life as an independent (mobile) apps developer
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The amazing thing here is how the police officer calmly sprays the pepper spray into the students who are sitting still and not resisting or threatening in any way
(Source: youtube.com)
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Notes"These issues go to the core of what democracy means. We have a major economic crisis in this country that was brought on by the greedy and irresponsible behavior of big banks. No banker has been arrested, and certainly none have been pepper sprayed. Arrests and chemical assault is for those trying to defend their homes, their jobs, and their schools."Bob Ostertag on the police’s pepper spraying of peacefully protesting students at the University of California in Davis
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Time-lapse photos of the Earth from space. Amazing!
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I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on...
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Sharding & IDs at Instagram
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our...
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Liz Jones in Somalia
Surprise! @LizJonesSomalia is a fake! Oh wow. No-way! Pah! Who knew?
About two thirds of you, actually - which is great,...
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I fear Samsung have made the gesture control system overly elaborate for the new Galaxy II.
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Room Racers. Create your own race game tracks by placing real stuff on the floor.
Race with up to 4 virtual cars around anything you can find in...
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ifttt the beginning...
I’d like to humbly announce that the first beta invites for a project I’m incredibly excited about are out the door. The...
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hahaahaha omg. going to hell
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In brief: To reduce the size of the secondary market
(via Instapaper)
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Got me on the frontline
As some of you know, I joined yesterday’s march on Parliament to protest against cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance...
