October 25, 2014 Pocket vs. Instapaper Read it later Everyone has their own routine for keeping track of articles they want to come back to, and these days there are numerous options, most of them foc
In January 2013, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras received an e-mail that would eventually change what the world knew about government surveillance. The e-mail came from Edward Snowden,
Update: I’ve already modified my profile by removing most of the images. Once the last contest is over, I will be removing the rest of the images that don’t suit my brand. I’ve also made a large donat
Why numbering should start at zero To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us a)2 ≤ i < 13b)1 < i ≤ 12c)2 ≤ i ≤ 12d)1
Have you ever noticed apps stuttering as you scroll and swipe around? Tapped a button and watched the entire interface freeze as it tries to react? iOS is well-known for its user experience quality ba
WSJ : Twitter Inc. has a proposition for app makers: Let’s start over. Two years ago, Twitter irked developers with stricter rules around applications that plug into the social-media service. This wee
We are pretty much always looking for new people, what is holding us back from expanding even more rapidly is the time that it takes to get to grips with our codebases and what we do here. But that al
Jonathan Abrams: “Each year, 600k 1st-yr college students take calculus; 250k fail. At $2k/failed-course, that is half-a-billion $” http://t.co/Upyp8MQMwg
The spread of computing to every corner of our physical world doesn’t just mean a proliferation of screens large and small—it also means we’ll soon come to rely on mobile computers with no screens at
Over the weekend I was hit with a deluge of advertising from banks and credit card companies encouraging me to get ready for the wonder that is Apple Pay . It seemed odd to me that big-name financial
We’ve filed our reply brief in the appeal of Smith v. Obama , our case challenging the NSA’s mass telephone records collection on behalf of Idaho nurse Anna Smith. The case will be argued before the N
Mike Stern , Apple User Experience Evangelist in Designing Intuitive User Experiences - 211 WWDC 2014 session (at 31’ 57"): But I feel like I would be remiss If I didn’t use this opportunity to talk with you about hamburger menus . AKA Slide out menus, AKA sidebars, AKA basements, AKA drawers. Now,…
Perhaps the most interesting news about Apple’s new iPad Air 2 tablet is buried at the bottom of one of its marketing pages : It will come pre-installed with a new “Apple SIM” card instead of one from
On Thursday the Guardian published three stories detailing how Whisper, the social media app that claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users , including som
Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss. You
A dark tunnel Dustin Curtis, designer and creator of the Svtble blogging platform , posted an article yesterday entitled Privacy vs. User Experience . In this article, Curtis claims that “Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of…
October 7, 2014 Privacy vs. User Experience Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of every
moving fast and breaking things Let's start with the classic Facebook quote, Move fast and break things . Facebook's used that for years: it's a philosophy of trying out new ideas quickly so you can s
Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs, and too many friends and family members talking about those bugs. I
My labor of love the last two years has been The Magazine , first as its hired hand and then, in May 2013, as its owner. The sad truth has been that, while profitable from week one, the publication ha
7 min read · Oct 10, 2014 -- I clicked on a link about the ‘world’s first 3D printed car’. I saw the headline on PSFK which is a site I trust and it was also a Washington Times link so — as we all do
An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple's new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.
I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club Published in The Message · 14 min read · Oct 9, 2014 -- Stevie Nicks This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds o
Paul Buchheit on listening to users : I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sen
Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It’s clumsy and confusing doing that with the
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