We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time
mostly writing
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If David Lynch would’ve met m83 in the 80’s, I think this song would’ve been included in Twin Peaks.
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Free Public WiFi
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some hole in Internet Explorer, scrapes your hard disk and sends your social security number to Russia, sets itself up as “Free Public WiFi”, repeat.
After seeing it for the thousandth time at the train station Philadelphia yesterday I decided to look it up. Turns out it’s not a virus (at least not in the usual sense) but rather an interesting fuckup on Microsoft’s part, with viral consequences.
Basically, if Windows can’t connect to a preferred network that happens to be ad-hoc it creates the network itself with the same name. At some point, somebody was connected to a real ad-hoc network called “Free Public WiFi”. They went to another location where it didn’t exist, their laptop helpfully recreated the network, more people connected to it (and probably disconnected when it didn’t work), those people carried it with them somewhere else, and the cycle has been repeating ever since.
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Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each issue among themselves, invariably going for the option that might amuse a user the most, that would give a user the most pleasure, and therefore imbue the Mac with personality.
Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar Team | TechRadar UK (via soxiam)
I would also argue this leads to bad decisions, e.g. iTunes zoom (maximize) button activates the mini player.
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Pandora gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling… until I received this spam from them today.
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Pleasantly surprised with some unlabeled music in my iTunes library today.
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Word of the Day: Portmanteau
While looking up the wiki-definition of Bookmarklet I came across this fun-to-pronounce one.
from Wikipedia:
A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words.
The usage of the word ‘portmanteau’ in this sense first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky:
- ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy’… You see it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word”
- ‘Mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau … for you)”.
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Genetify’s software takes in all possible variations that a designer can think up, tries them out, and automatically optimizes the designs from real users’ actions. The same technique is being use by many high-profile sites like Amazon.com. Genetify will provide the same power to everyone.
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