August 2009
20 posts
The Mediocre Multitasker - NYTimes.com →
Read it and gloat. Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a variety of tasks. They don’t focus as well as non-multitaskers. They’re more distractible. They’re weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information. They are, as a matter of fact, worse at multitasking than people who don’t...
Why Windows 7 isn’t competing with Mac OS X Snow... →
Microsoft is not anything like Apple. Microsoft almost exclusively licenses its Windows software to PC makers, which are then pitted against each other to sell commodity hardware to consumers. Apple sells a unique, integrated product directly to consumers.
In many other market segments however, Macs (and Linux) have both found conformable niches where they are more fit for survival than Windows....
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: New Measure... →
Today, Fermín Moscoso Del Prado Martín from the Universite de Provence in France proposes a new way to study reaction times by analysing the entropy of their distribution, rather in the manner of thermodynamics The entropy is an estimate of the amount of information needed to specify the state of the system. Martin says the the entropy of the distribution of reaction times is independent of the...
The Real Truth about Apple and Google and... →
Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to “force” Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox.
“Confidence of success, is almost success; and obstacles often fall of themselves...”
– Manvotional: Difficulties | The Art of Manliness
Uncle Athneal →
In the heavily accented, lyrical poetry that passes for common speech among Bequians, Mr. Ollivierre will tell you, “The day I harpooned my first whale, there was such joy in my heart, I couldn’t speak. It turned my mind. You must choose what will pleasure your life. You must have plenty courage and be fast thinking.”
“We often think of journalism as encompassing what we know. But a key part of...”
– The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org
Seth's Godin on education. I wish I had known... →
School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is ‘getting it’. It’s the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn’t care about workbooks or long checklists.
“If you look at Microsoft’s customers, they’re only satisfied when they don’t...”
– Why Can’t Microsoft Develop Software for Zune HD? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
“If you want to change what your boss believes, or the strategy your company is...”
– Seth’s Blog: Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical
“Self-enforcing protocols improve security not by implementing countermeasures...”
– The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols | threatpost
“There’s a lot of ways to work with appreciation. You can pull out a pen...”
– Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Weekend Meditation: Appreciation
“Perhaps the biggest challenge for business owners is developing the ability to...”
– Systemic vs. Systematic | E-Myth Worldwide
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“What is impractical now with 3G may become routine with 4G/LTE.”
– Why the iTablet is Critical to Apple’s Future | Hidden Dimensions | The Mac Observer
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Adding style to perl code
Perl has always been my favourite command line and web programming language. There is nothing Perl can’t do. The Perl language combined with the large quantities of modules on CPAN (developed by some of the best programmers on the planet) make it the kitchen sink of programming languages.
I like to make my code as easy to read as possible. Nothing irks me more than a jumble of spaghetti code...
“People who love computers overwhelmingly prefer to use a Mac today. Microsoft’s...”
– Peeve Farm
“iPhones come locked so they can’t be used with other carriers, so people...”
– Seth’s Blog: Bear shaving