January 2011
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The Nerd Handbook →
The Cave is also frustrating you because your impression is that it’s your nerd’s way of checking out, and you are, unfortunately, completely correct. A correctly designed Cave removes your nerd from the physical world and plants him firmly in a virtual one complete with all the toys he needs.
Best thing I’ve ever read (along with The Cave and NADD posts), seriously.
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Why Cocoa Development? →
Cocoa is adopted by people who share a very common purpose. It’s not to become rich. It’s not because our employer made us. It’s not because it’ll get us laid (unless, I suppose, you’re Wil Shipley). It’s because we fell in love with the platform that we’re developing for. We fell in love with the Mac and with the iPhone, and now we want to contribute to that platform.
I’ve been trying...
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Google Chrome Will Drop Support for H.264 →
Here’s a thought. If Google is dropping support for H.264 because their “goal is to enable open innovation”, why don’t they also drop support for closed plugins like Flash Player? As it stands now, Chrome not only supports Flash, it ships with its own embedded copy of Flash. I don’t see how Google keeps Flash but drops H.264 in the name of “openness” without being seen as utter hypocrites.
Bad...
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Twitter for Mac →
You can get it through the Mac App Store. Most people that I’m following on twitter aren’t liking it much, but I really do. My first impression was that the font was kinda small and hard on the eyes, but I got used to it right away.