With the resolution of the 5k iMac saga , I was left with a beautiful iMac15,1 sitting on my desk. Throughout my testings with the machine, I would use AirPlay to Mac as a substitute for a proper exte
This comes up far too often, so rather than continuing to explain it over and over again, I’m going to try to do a really good job of it once and link to it here. What’s ECC RAM? Is it a good idea? Th
After discovering the recipe for Robie’s Buttermilk Flapjacks in a magazine a year or two ago, my wife has been making them for breakfast most Saturdays and they are, no foolin’, the best pancakes I’v
’ve ranted previously about taking empirical research about software engineering practices with a grain of salt. Let’s dust off the old salt shaker and season up a related idea: the notion that softwa
“Perhaps it will turn out that you were called to be an artist. If that is your fate, then accept it and deal with it, the highs and the lows, the burden and the greatness, without ever worrying about
Photo cred: my dad I think the devil is real and he wants you to be more productive. He’s everywhere, spreading wickedness disguised as wisdom. Here he is in Stop confusing productivity with laziness.
Top Gun: Maverick has a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It got a very rare A+ CinemaScore. It is on track to blow away opening weekend expectations with $150M. Maverick is the type of movie that
Sporadic notes Drake, C. A. (1941). Why students cheat. The Journal of HigherEducation, 12(8), 418–420. https://doi.org/10.2307/1976003 From 1941… Speculates on why students cheat as well as how the b
It will take about three minutes to read this column. Whether it’s worth three minutes depends on me, of course. I will do my best. But it also depends on you, on your attitude to time and, perhaps, o
Today I’m writing some short thoughts on how to design solutions or decide on actions when you face a new problem. TL;DR constantly ask yourself what you are trying to do. One of the main lessons I’ve
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I’m Dan Wood, and I’ve been writing Mac software since the Mac’s early days. Many years ago I created the award-winning app “Watson” because I wasn’t content with the status quo of having to go to web
Spoilers for The Matrix Resurrections follow. Proceed with caution! Thomas Anderson’s world is unraveling before his very eyes. He knows that he put a lot of himself into Neo, the protagonist of his g
What is this post? In this post, I hope to convince companies and their investors to stop using Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a KPI. NPS fails on basically two dimensions: first, it doesn’t say very muc
It's not always "fun" bugs and flaws. Earlier this year , we did a deep dive on a much more serious example of what can go wrong. A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard
I know a whole lot of finns have already made posts about this (and with my notoriously shit memory, I may have already written one too), but too late, I can’t be stopped: Finnish pronouns. I can’t re
I have something to tell you, dear reader. The web is fucked. It’s a sad state of affairs that we’re in - gone are the days of Web 1.0 where the humble personal blog and the likes of GeoCities reigned
Posted in: City Guide , Rants and Raves , Restaurants There is something to be said about a truly disastrous meal, a meal forever indelible in your memory because it’s so uniquely bad, it can only be
Paul the Ghost floats across the office to his colleague. “hey rachel,” he says. “i, um… i died about an hour ago.” Traffic accident. Why the sheet? “well, i don’t have to, but i wanted to look ghostl
The Deadly Sausages of Old Stuttgart Town In late 18th Century Stuttgart, Justinus Kerber, in the spirit of many a great medical pioneer, very nearly killed himself in the name of science. Investigati
This is an edited/updated version of a G+ post originally by Paul Cowan (and with me helping on the research), where we tried to sort out once and for all whether the ACT has a coastline. Spoiler: you
I got home from work, bag in the slot by the door, shoes in the shoe slot. I opened the couch and slumped down. What a day. Leaned my head back. Closed my eyes. Normal stuff. According to the normal p
Things to say when you're losing a technical argument That won't scale. That's been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that's O(NlogN). There are, of course, various export limitations on that
I n every job he has ever had, Gavin has shirked. When he worked in a call centre, he would mute the phone, rather than answer it. When he worked in a pub, he would sneak out of the building and go to
The new MacBook Pro shows that Apple is finally becoming serious about developers. Gone is the gimmicky TouchBar, gone are the four USB-C ports that forced power users to carry a suitcase full of dong
No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a
” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. E very year, Gallup asks a sample of American adults what might seem to be a rather loaded question: How much do you
My husband is really into geometry, and once he’s mastered a complicated proof he likes to go through it with me in exacting detail. If he sees my eyes wandering, he commands me to pay attention. In g
Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. When Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia , she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. She came to learn the tango
Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Reddit and thomaslenne/Getty Images Plus. HermanCainAward, one of the fastest-growing subreddits on Reddit.com, is exactly what it sounds like: an archive of tho
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It was two weeks, originally. Who couldn’t do two weeks with the kids at home? Two weeks to bend the curve. It was simple. Then it was two months—because nothing bent—and, well, we did two weeks and t
When people ask me what I did in Afghanistan, I tell them that I hung out in planes and listened to the Taliban. My job was to provide “threat warning” to allied forces, and so I spent most of my time
Back in 2010, Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman had a weird idea: a website where you write down the stuff you accomplished that day, and which then emails you a summary. It would be a productivity tool
06.05. 2006 The Wal-Mart in the basement of my building sells live frogs in a big aquarium, for eating. I don't know what surprised me more when I moved here - the frogs, or the Wal-Mart. Our favorite
Awesome screen. Awesome camera. Long-lasting battery life. These are three things that Samsung’s influencer-filled ad would like you (or more likely, a social-savvy teen) to know about its Galaxy A se
How can you not be romantic about programming? 08 Sep 2020 There’s a scene in Moneyball in which Brad Pitt’s character, themanager of the Oakland A’s , is watching a recording of one of hisplayers try
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