Wow... I would so much rather just have (perhaps a subset of) the actual data always on my display. I don't have an iPhone, but there's some room on my little screen that could show -90 when I'm in a cave and, like, -9 most of the time (or whatever it may be).
Seriously, people, are we supposed to be so dumb that we can't do that kind of judgment call on our own? I thought that that kind of thing was what the human mind was supposed to be good at and that computers are supposed to be bad at, yet here we are having a phone do it for us?
The USC loss highlights something to me: It was hard for me to tell what information was being displayed. I totally missed the news on that game (fail) so I saw USC in bold and assumed they'd won and didn't know what the big red box meant.
Maybe I'm just a space cadet and that's not actually confusing, but I found it unintuitive. I'd bold the winner after a game has been played and maybe make a note in smaller type below that the prediction was the other guy. And keep the red box.
I read a tip, I don't remember where anymore sadly, about taking a key word from the question, adding some password-like string to it and calling that your answer.
So: "What is your pet's name?" n0tm4hp4s5w3rd-pets-name
and: "What street did you grow up on?" n0tm4hp4s5w3rd-street
You still have to remember an arbitrary string, it is SLIGHTLY more accessible than mashing randomly, and certainly more secure than putting the real answer.
That's hilarious. I think the best part is where it points out that since particles have positive and negative charges and 1 + -1 = 0, then the universe must have been made "from nothing". Astounding.
I agree that this is the big decision point. I'm a Ruby guy and I've looked at Python several times and it never really stuck (I could work on a project that use Python, it just wouldn't be as fun as a project using Ruby to me). I could complain about various technical details, but if I'm entirely honest it would just be minute, meaningless, bitchy detail nitpicks.
Is there--understand, here, that I don't have a blog and haven't blogged, so I have no idea--is there blog software that will do this for you already? Like, handle a different URL, css styles, etc. but point to the same database? That sounds like it would be really handy.
Though the article was interesting, it's nothing that isn't said a lot: quality communication is necessary and also hard; quality communication between more people is commensurately harder.
On another note: the link to hitmeuplater.com was neat. I hadn't see it before and think it's a cool idea.
Yeah. Way to fail completely at your job, Keyes. This is a guy who can't imagine anyone using his product in a way different from the way he uses it. Fail.
Concur. I think the most impressive thing on here was Fez. Other stuff either looked like it wouldn't be terribly useful to actually use, wasn't real or both.
Yeah. Functional programming. I "understood" it for a good while before, rather suddenly, something clicked and I realized what the big deal was all about.
I had a pretty horrible experience with an airline recently (I won't regale y'all) and it has had me thinking about ways to fix air travel in the US. I had a few ideas on how an outside company might help, but I don't think they're actually tenable. Will it take the collapse of several major airlines for someone on the "inside" to fix stuff? The article posted here a while ago about Alaskan was pretty heartening.
Similarly, have y'all seen mobaganda.com? It is doing the simple == better thing, as well. I notice you guys seem (I haven't actually used either site yet) to have a few more features. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Seriously, people, are we supposed to be so dumb that we can't do that kind of judgment call on our own? I thought that that kind of thing was what the human mind was supposed to be good at and that computers are supposed to be bad at, yet here we are having a phone do it for us?