February 2012
1 post
Market Unlocker Makes Location Restricted Market... →
January 2012
2 posts
1 tag
I Heart Chaos: Fun with math: Dividing one by... →
iheartchaos:
There’s all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of…
December 2011
2 posts
“Tip relating to freshness of eggs:
If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs...”
– 50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the Kitchen | Life Hackery
yongfook: Design is Horseshit! →
yongfook:
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic
I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.
Here’s my pitch. This…
November 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
“I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven...”
– https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1109.html#5 (via skoop)
August 2011
5 posts
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina:
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to...
Getting refunds on open-source projects →
Clients From Hell: Client: I love the headline but... →
clientsfromhell:
Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy.
Me: I don’t think it’s going to get more punchy than ‘We Buy Gold’.
Client: I want more with less!
Me: ‘Sell Gold’
Client: No, I absolutely hate that. The last one was better, just make it punchy. I want it to pop off the…
Has happened to me more than once!
clientsfromhell:
Me: Would you like to have the meeting at 3 PM today or tomorrow morning?
Client: Yes.
July 2011
4 posts
WatchSalman Khan talk at TED 2011 (from ted.com) (via khanacademy’s Channel - YouTube)
1 tag
Agavi: Agavi 1.0.6 RC1 released! →
agavi:
We’re happy to announce that the first release candidate for version 1.0.6 is now available for download at agavi.org and through the PEAR channel.
This release adds a database adapter for Doctrine 2, a renderer for the Twig template engine, a native session storage for ext/sqlsrv and various…
Frequent flyer racks up 10 million air miles -... →
June 2011
4 posts
“MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it...”
– MailCatcher
10 classic Indianisms: 'Doing the needful' and... →
May 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“LastPass acted exactly like we wish most companies would act: responsibly. And...”
– LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
April 2011
1 post
February 2011
3 posts
CouchOne – Blog: CouchOne + Membase = Couchbase →
couchio:
Hi, this is Damien Katz, CEO at CouchOne.
I’ve got some news I’m extremely excited to finally announce: a merger between CouchOne and Membase!
Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2010 →
January 2011
1 post
“Best part of about investing in the stock market is that, you don’t lose more...”
– Heard it on CNBC (via hapuchu)
2 tags
December 2010
2 posts
1 tag
November 2010
2 posts
“The 22-year-old said her boyfriend had been calling her “the ashes”...”
– BBC News - Twitter name @theashes brings cricket fame to US woman
“Where is the American dream? Where is the optimism?”
– It’s Morning in India - NYTimes.com
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
1 post
1 tag
WatchRasmus Lerdorf - PHP Performance | Digg About
July 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
Adobe's new ad and apple's response.
adikdikisasmallantelope:
And Apple’s response:
April 2010
8 posts
2 tags
Tata Indicom spamming on #vark
aardvark-g209@vark.com:
You there? I have a question about *Tata Indicom* that I think you might be able to answer.
It's a new user's first question - you can welcome him to Aardvark!
(Type 'sure', 'pass', or 'busy'.)
Shoan Motwani: sure
aardvark-g209@vark.com: (From Tata Teleservices L./M/Mumbai,IN)
Hi,
Tata Indicom Photon+ works on Mac and would like to inform you that you cannot switch to other service provider with the same device.
Thank you.
(Type 'pass' to skip, 'refer' to forward, or 'more' for options.)
Shoan Motwani: flag
aardvark-g209@vark.com: I'm sorry I sent you an inappropriate message! I'll follow up to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
If you have questions or comments, please send an email to support@vark.com.
Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself « Sharing the... →
After reading this I don’t feel bad for Adobe. What goes around comes around.
Clients from hell →
skoop:
stephandeprouw:
Scene: Trendy restaurant in NYC, we are sitting with our prospective client who is with her “marketing consultant” at a dinner meeting. Prospective client has already downed two drinks in rapid fashion.
Client: “Our product is going to become ubiquitous in the marketplace. We need millions of customers.”
Us: “That is great, how do you plan to achieve this goal?”
...
2 tags
After six years of development OpenTTD reaches... →
Sadly the Mac version has been discontinued. Now I’ll have to fire up an Ubuntu VM to play it. :(
2 tags
“For those of you, who own an unsupported device we are offering the navigation...”
– Nokia E71 and E66 get Ovi Maps with free navigation at Ovi blog
March 2010
4 posts
6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice →
February 2010
2 posts
1 tag
You Know You’re a TWiST Superfan if… | This Week... →
Hilarious! You will probably get it only if you’ve watched the show.
I am not a TWiST Superfan *yet*. :)
2 tags
“HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized...”
– Facebook Developers | HipHop for PHP: Move Fast