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Playing By Canadian Rules
“The [startup] game is really about getting lots of people to give you their money because you provide value to them. What makes you better than others is that you are chasing a much bigger problem that will provide value to a full percentage of the world’s population. Bonus points if you change the world.” …
Calendars are Skeuomorphic
“I don’t care about the past. It can be hidden in a separate view for the rare occasions that I want to look at past items. Yet the past is consuming the majority of the interface.” – Marco Arment “Who wants to see 30 boxes arranged in a grid with tiny text? Who wants to …
Shrug.
“Why bother working all day on a piece if something you throw together in 20 minutes will get the same attention from the world?” – Andrew Phelps What would you tell Atlas to do?
One of My All-Time Favorite Tech Legends
“Retreating to his garage, he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he carried it around for months, pretending it was a computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a …
Anti-Free
“…avoid mom-and-pop projects that don’t take your money! You might call this the anti-free-software movement.” – Maciej, Pinboard.in
Important!
“The problem isn’t the 100 messages but the 100 new responsibilities represented by the email messages.” – John D. Cook
Where Work Happens
If I’m not in the terminal then I’m not doing real work…I work in a full-screen terminal and don’t like to leave it. The world outside my terminal is filled with distractions, bright colours, and menus. My textual environment is where my real work happens. – Jesse Storimer
Being Honest with Yourself
“There’s one difference. Mine doesn’t save the page, it just pretends to. And that’s good enough.” – Dan W. on his Instapaper Placebo Reminds me of a fantastic Twitter-esque service I thought of a few years back. It would have a ‘compose tweet’ box just like Twitter and when you clicked ‘Tweet’ the box would …
#titanic { float: none; }
The story of the Titanic’s demise as written in jQuery. In terms of geek humor, this achieves ‘sudo make me a sandwich’ status.