January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
Math + Magic
Magic, the controlled ordering of patterns, is the perfect UX for Math, the science of patterns.
“As it turns out, you have to shuffle seven times before a deck becomes truly scrambled. Not only that, the cards become mixed in a highly unusual way: The amount of randomness in the deck does not increase smoothly. The first few shuffles do little to disturb the original order, and even after six...
November 2011
4 posts
Innovation & Creativity
I went to a most unusual and inspiring concert last night at Carnegie Hall, and have to say that it is one that will stay with me the rest of my life.
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Event.aspx?id=4006
Thomas Adès (composer, pianist) and Ian Bostridge (tenor) performed works by Adès, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Dowland, Kurtag.
Adès is a composer and superb pianist, so he comfortably experiments with...
Software is like this too
John Baldessari is a painter whose works I return to frequently. He always makes me think, and not only about painting. After sharing this painting with friends over the years, I realized only recently that this is also a description about my relationship to software development. As I look back at the trends in my work, the core reason for developing any of the companies, products or algorithms...
Watch“Alright, so, tell me what you do for a living …” and then the most expressive, searching, thoughtful pause I may have ever seen.
October 2011
4 posts
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is...”
– Agatha Christie
September 2011
7 posts
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Watch(via Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world | Video on TED.com)
“Algorithms in conflict with adult supervision …”
August 2011
15 posts
“Various people have discovered that Kindle Cloud Reader is a straight HTML5 app...”
– Amazon Lowers the Speed Bump with Kindle Cloud Reader « Copyright and Technology
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your...”
– If you want a happy ending… at BrainyQuote (via rafer)
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If PHP Were British →
maniacalrage:
I especially enjoy the new version of try… catch blocks:
would_you_mind { // Code here } actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { // Politely move on cheerio('Message'); }
Vastly more polite and upbeat indeed.
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky
Just chatting with a friend and fellow healthcare innovator. A super talented, smart guy with a really elegant solution that every employer in the US should want. However, disrupting the price transparency issue of healthcare is pretty much impossible. That quote pretty much sums up a...
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April 2011
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
6 posts
CHART OF THE DAY: The Growth Of HTML5 Video →
I would like to see the same chart showing the growth of HTML5 video where “Copy Video URL” is enabled from the video … where the spirit of HTML5 video can really show its power for open and social.
“In addition to the fact that Pinboard itself is promising and clever, Ceglowski...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Pinboard — Antisocial Bookmarking (via rafer)
September 2010
5 posts
“These investors, known as “super angels” because they have mostly moved on to...”
– So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…
Rafer sez: As stated a few dozen times, angels only manage their own money. Everyone else is a VC, by whatever trendy name, and their incentives are ever increasingly divergent from founders. They are almost always great people, but that doesn’t correct the problem.
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July 2010
12 posts
Chopin Etude, Opus 10, #1
Chopin classes last...
“I took my old manual Pentax, left it on the smallest f stop at f/16 & took...”
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via kevin.tumblr.com - Rethinking the Art of Photography at f/16
