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merlin: Studio Ghibli Postcards [Link] « Macdrifter I...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:33:39 -0400

Studio Ghibli Postcards [Link] « Macdrifter

I would buy the @#$% out of these if it weren’t for the doubt that I’d receive the order before this etsy seller receives a Cease & Desist.

"In my time working [at Apple], I must personally have seen years-worth, probably decades-worth (and,..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:02:42 -0400

“In my time working [at Apple], I must personally have seen years-worth, probably decades-worth (and, from afar perhaps even centuries-worth) of work simply discarded because it turned out not to be ‘right’ or ‘good’. This was done with very little animosity towards the people who did the work. There was a distinct difference between working on something that turned out bad and had to be discarded (fine - admirable, even) and doing bad work (bad)…I think this highlights two things that many other organisations would do well to learn. First, what you have is what it is, it’s not the effort that was put into it. If it’s not worth keeping, it’s not worth keeping. Second, if you want the best results, you need to give good people the room to start over without feeling like they are failing.”

- Jamie Montgomerie: Apple, Failure, and Perfect Cookies (via buzz)
Truer words…

How to write an iOS app purely in C - Stack Overflow

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:03:29 -0400

How to write an iOS app purely in C - Stack Overflow:

buzz:

(via Klaas Pieter Annema)

I’m not big on super wonky interview questions, but when I interviewed engineering candidates at Apple, one of the advanced questions I occasionally liked to trot out was about ways to use object oriented techniques in a non-object oriented language like C (if you’re wondering what I was getting at with this, take a look at the OO-like conventions employed by Apple’s straight C Core Foundation frameworks).

I always liked this question because if someone did well on it, they demonstrated three things:

A good grasp of C.

A deep understanding of object oriented programming.

An appreciation for the fact that (as I said on Twitter today) there is no “magic” in programming—that everything is basically an abstraction built on top of lower level abstractions.

ilovecharts: Buster Olney trying to drop knowledge on us mere...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:57:51 -0400

ilovecharts:

Buster Olney trying to drop knowledge on us mere mortals on Baseball Tonight.

-hartford

This is going to be a long year …

Weird, it appears they forgot ‘fans’.

futurejournalismproject: The Internet’s Population Doubled Over...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:42:35 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years

Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:

Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.

Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.

Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.

The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.

North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.

Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.

Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.

They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost double the entire Internet population was in 2007.

newyorker: Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/HUwuVt

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:13:01 -0400

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/HUwuVt

Thought Palace: Wanted: A Sane Subset Of C++

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:11:08 -0400

Thought Palace: Wanted: A Sane Subset Of C++:

thought-palace:

TL;DR

I want there to be a well-defined small subset of C++ that is sufficient for writing large maintainable structured code (i.e. it has features like classes and exceptions), but does not allow all the bells and whistles that tempt C++ programmers into writing unreadable, unmaintainable and…

"Really good software engineers are like great musicians. They have practiced their craft, because..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:27:16 -0400

“Really good software engineers are like great musicians. They have practiced their craft, because nothing comes for free, but they also have a spark of something great inside them to begin with that makes them special. And the analogy is especially apt because while there are always tools being created to make it easier for ‘anyone’ to create music, it still takes a special talent to make great music.”

- James Turner, Developer Week in Review: Everyone can program? (via wka)

new-aesthetic: Twitter users discover the Titanic was...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:31:27 -0400

new-aesthetic:

Twitter users discover the Titanic was real.

New theory: Knowledge isn’t lost-to-time. It’s ignored.

Well, this is awkward…

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:35:35 -0400

Well, this is awkward…

ilovecharts: And You Wonder Why We’re Broke? I hate clickbait....

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:33:00 -0400

ilovecharts:

And You Wonder Why We’re Broke?

I hate clickbait. Here’s the real source.

Thought Palace: Losing My Edge

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:41:24 -0500

Thought Palace: Losing My Edge:

thought-palace:

I’m losing my edge.
I’m losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I’m losing my edge to the kids from Stanford and from MIT.
But I was there.

I was there in 1979.
I was there when they demoed the GUI to Steve Jobs at PARC.
I’m losing my edge.
I’m losing my edge to the kids whose…

seoulbrother: weselec: thememegeneration: texburgher: weselec...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:35:26 -0400

seoulbrother:

weselec:

thememegeneration:

texburgher:

weselec:

It’s a tough thing, sometimes, to recognize those moments when you’ve destroyed the credibility of your opinion by liking a photo of a corn dog.

Hear, hear.

In my pitiful defense, I liked that photo before I had my coffee, and I regretted it as soon as my brain began to work. Realizing my folly, I raced to the Internet to show off my newfound superiority and nobility.

Sad thing is, I’m not sure now which is worse: liking the crass photo, or lecturing a disorderly assortment of strangers and friends not to like the crass photo. And worst of all, my caffeine-related excuses ran out of runway hours ago.

The photo itself isn’t crass. It’s just a photo. With no other subtext, if it had been McCain or Obama or Schwarzenegger or me or you or Gruber or whomever, it’d still be a funny picture.

But what I want to know is why is it sexist? Are only women allowed to eat corn dogs?

Come on, Geoff, we’ve all been to the fair a few times. You ride the Tilt-A-Whirl, check out the Biggest Melon Contest winners and, hell, maybe even some cow-plop bingo between friends. At the end of the day, we’ve all enjoyed a juicy foot-long corn-dog.

Maybe you need a little mirror at the bottom of your coffee cup so you can see what you’ve become after that first or fourteenth cup.

I think we can all agree that this whole thing would be much more straightforward if we just pretend the corn dog called Michelle Bachmann a cunt too.

I’d like to step in here and say that corn dogs suck.

rentzsch.tumblr.com: Using M4 to Compose Your .gitignore File

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:26:56 -0400

rentzsch.tumblr.com: Using M4 to Compose Your .gitignore File:

rentzsch:

Chris Wanstrath has a cool project to collect folks’ .gitignore files.

Chris breaks these down by platform and language/environment, which is great. What’s less great is you can’t pass multiple files to core.excludesfile, so you can’t easily compose them.

The ideal situation would to extend…

Photo

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:03:30 -0400

A minimal project template for Xcode 4

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:31:12 -0400

A minimal project template for Xcode 4:

Many people have their own project- and/or file-templates for practical or aesthetic reasons. For example I don’t like the naming convention provided by Apple such as XXXX-Info.plist, XXXX-Prefix.pch, and XXXXAppDelegate for the project XXXX. On Xcode 3.x. it was relatively easy to modify them. Since Xcode 4, however, Apple introduced a new template format that is no longer compatible with those of Xcode. 3.x.

Useful info, I bumped into this while trying to set up project templates for openFrameworks.

eyepool: YES!!! Needs unicode support…

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:42:37 -0400

eyepool:

YES!!!

Needs unicode support…

'The Economist' To Halt Production For Month To Let Readers Catch Up

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:39:50 -0400

'The Economist' To Halt Production For Month To Let Readers Catch Up:

eyepool:

LONDON—World-renowned news and opinion magazine The Economist announced plans to suspend any new online and print content for the next month in an effort to finally allow subscribers a chance to catch up. “It’s only fair to our readers,” said Economist editor Winthrop Parker, adding that there was no reason for subscribers to feel ashamed for not necessarily knowing every last detail about the current economic and geopolitical climate. “Even just scanning over some of the feature stories can sometimes take two or three daily bus commutes to finish. After all, some of these issues have as many words in them as a short novel. No one should be expected to do that in one week.” In related news, ESPN The Magazine announced Monday it would be suspending publication indefinitely until its readers learned to read.

eyepool: nothing2c: Hyvää päivää [N2C]! Now you know how to...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:36:34 -0400

eyepool:

nothing2c:

Hyvää päivää [N2C]!

Now you know how to greet people in Finnish!

Those Finns know how to rock the umlaut like nobody else.

I must have stared at this for three minutes at least. There’s something remarkably simple and peaceful about it, like the idea of standing on a porch waving goodbye (or hello) is from a bygone era; lost in the passing of time.

A Bad Good Idea

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:04:54 -0400

rentzsch:

I had a vision of embedding C++ in a funny kind of comment in (Obj-)C(++) that clang would recognize, dynamically compile and then execute its transformations against the containing code’s Abstract Syntax Tree.

I hope to emerge from my LLVM fever swamp any day now.

Tough enough to explain my love of llvm to other dev’s (despite never having time to dig deep into it.), let alone to “normal” people.