My Apache Flex Logo Contest Submissions Flex/Flash/Actionscript Reflections on the first 360|Flex Data Visualization,Flex/Flash/Actionscript Stalking Someone with Data Flex/Flash/Actionscript FlexCoders Mailing List Stats, Pretty Graphs, Full Dataset ...
A Louisville friend of mine shared a post on Facebook from an Amazon Flex Driver who was taking her first 3 AM shift to deliver packages! I had no idea this was a thing! Apparently, it has been an option for several years now but is just now available in our neck of the woods. ...
A Subtle Shift Moralism — The Emperor’s New Success Code Is Our Friend The Edge of Religion The Dark Side of Pixel-Aware Font Rendering The Futility of DVD Encryption ID Isn’t About Size or Speed Blood-Curdling Screams ID Venn Diagram Rich and Good-Looking? Why Libertarianism Goes Nowher...
Faster is better. Faster processors don’t change that equation, they just draw more tasks into the category of “tolerably fast” that previously resided in the “intolerably slow” bucket. Plus, I don’t think I’ve seen an app yet that didn’t exhibit a noticeable delay when under so...
Then you would find a way to live hutless. It would suck, but nowhere near as bad as building a new hut every three days. When our government wages a “war on poverty” — and does so with no current ability to prevent genetic damage, much less repair it in its adult victims — ...
unrealistic expectations of my future self— I imagine that my near-future self will diligently clean up the mess. I fail to realize that there is no such person. There’s just one me, and if I don’t want to clean it up, then nobody wants to. failure to grasp mortality— Accepting...
STEVE Jobs came back to Apple in 1997. Bringing him back was a near-bankruptcy, last-ditch, desperation move. He immediately set about getting Apple away from death’s door, then improving its constitution over time. And it worked: Year after year, for the past eighteen years, Apple’s ...
How much precision in particle positioning would that require, given that the butterfly effect plays havoc with fine details of even the near future? If, hypothetically, each fundamental particle has 256 bits of data behind it, how much time would that allow for even one fine-tuned protein ...
not to delete them, nor sort them into folders, and instead to search them to find what you want; and it displayed replies with their original message as a single, stacked thread, so messages that go together are viewed together. Very nice indeed — but nowhere near as revolutionary as Go...