December 2011
19 posts
“How far can algorithmic pricing be extended? And what are the long-term...”
– The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms
“But when you display one image at a time in a series that’s essentially...”
– Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints | TechCrunch
“As interface designers, it’s important that we not only put buttons and text...”
– Thinking of interfaces as sets of jobs - (Ryan Singer)
“The point is, code evolves. It’s never “done”, so don’t write tests that presume...”
– The Hustler’s Manifesto - Niroka
“The real clever part of Instagram is the audience component. Most articles tend...”
– Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints | TechCrunch
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re...”
– 6 Things Jeff Bezos Knew Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla - Forbes
“Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack...”
– Stephen Fry
I Just Ordered a Ladle from Amazon →
“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is […]...”
– Steve Jobs (via The way it is)
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 →
Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated flight-control functions. These have the potential to remove a great deal of uncertainty and danger from aviation. But they also remove important information from the attention of the flight crew. While the airplane’s avionics track crucial parameters such as location, speed, and heading, the human beings can pay...
“The last thing I want to have to worry about is continually micromanaging...”
– Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work
The friends breathing life into Whiteladies... →
