- Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? – Great answer. Very, very familiar…
- The Lego ZX81 – As per title. Very cool!
- Why I Hate Android – “When you think about it in the context of this election season we’re entering, it’s a brilliant political maneuver that Google has pulled off with Android. They’ve taken something they’ve done that’s actually bad for us and spun it in such a way that most people actually buy into it being good for us.”
Tag: Cell
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support – I think this is one of Androids biggest failings.
- John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84 – Really not a good month for IT or Computer Science.
- The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review – The original iPod is ten years old and, actually, stands up pretty well.
- Realism in UI Design – “The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning.”
- Jan. 19, 1983: Apple Gets Graphic With Lisa – And without the Lisa there wouldn’t have been the Mac…
- Googlephone No Match for Kafkaesque Carriers – Steven Levy finds that mobile (cell) carriers are all evil… I wish this was an isolated problem but it seems to happen everywhere. Does anyone actually like their provider?
- Palm Pre smartphone – “So you’re after a smartphone, you’ve got money to burn and an obvious decision to make: this or the iPhone. No other touchscreen smartphone is even in the running. The Pre has some obvious advantages. It’s a bit smaller than the iPhone and ‘Synergy’ works well, which could prove useful if you’re more familiar with Facebook than the concept of Gmail or an Exchange server. But weigh it against the iPhone and it’s hard to recommend.”
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide Turns 30 – Still one of my favourite books.
- Cat registered as hypnotherapist – To be fair, cats do seem to convince people to pet them and feed them without any apparent pay-back. Maybe they do hypnotise them?
- Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge – “A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases.”
- The Palm Pre’s possible Achilles heel: battery life – All the glitz you see in the Pre demo and videos may come at a price.
- Tags: Database schemas – Interesting article on how sites like delicious might handle tagging. Yummy until v2.0 uses the “Scuttle” method. Subsequent versions modify this a little for performance reasons.