The Lost Practice of Resting One Day Each Week
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.” — Leonardo da Vinci
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Looking Into the Past: Thomas Circle, Washington, DC (via jasonepowell)
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. -
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I’ve got a real bad habit of doing this.
In fact, from now on, I plan to never do this again…oh… DAMMIT.
“Remember that there is no code faster than no code.” — Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs (via mnmal)
Nexus One From an iPhone Developer’s Perspective -
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Jeff LaMarche on the Nexus One:
To make matters worse, the sensors on the Nexus One for the four hardware buttons are not exactly aligned with the silkscreened icons. You have to tap noticeably above the button to get it to register. That was very frustrating for me until someone (from Google nonetheless) pointed out the mis-alignment. Up until then, I consistently had to hit the buttons three or four times to get it to register.
But even worse than that, the home button on the Nexus One is right below the fracking space bar on the portrait keyboard. Combine that with the not-completely-precise touch screen, and you have a UX disaster. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been typing and ended up leaving my application due to accidentally hitting the home button. Leaving an application mid-sentence is hardly a good user experience.
And Gruber wrote:
He’s got lots of other observations I agree with, but the above one is, without question, the biggest WTF on the Nexus One. It’s just bizarre.
Indeed bizarre. You would think that they would be meticulous about UIs and the touch screen, then again, this is Google; as much as I love Google, their products are always “beta”. I wonder why…
a hard disk drive back in 1956, with 5 MB of storage.
In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’ 5 MB of data.
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