Re: Jan 08 by choonkeat

Ask E.T.: Instructions at the point of need

So now my assistant pointedly wears white cloth gloves while showing the books to signal that they should not be touched. That is, unobtrusive instructions at point of use. ^{link »}

Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone

deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information--too often leaving users with "Where am I?" puzzles. Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space rather than stacked in time. ^{link »}

eliminating screen-hogging computer administrative debris, and distributing information adjacent in space ^{link »}

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The design ideas here include high-resolution touch-screens; minimizing computer admin debris; spatial distribution of information rather than temporal stacking; complete integration of text, images, and live video; a flat non-hierarchical interface; and replacing spacious icons with tight words. The metaphor for the interface is the information. Thus the iPhone got it mostly right. ^{link »}

steve dekorte - blog

To scale to a large number of cores, architectures will have to go MIMD (Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream). This is the model that actor-based message passing concurrency systems like Erlang are based on. The internet itself can be seen as one large MIMD machine. ^{link »}

I wouldn't put stock in MISD oriented solutions such as transactional memory or elaborate functional programming compiler techniques. Shared memory systems simply won't survive the exponential rise in core counts. ^{link »}

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Live tennis match transmission cut due to bad planning ^{link »}

This was disappointing enough but, more infuriatingly, the transmission break happened at the set point decider for the third set. No apology was made. ^{link »}

OT: Rails is shitty [was top down programming in a bottom up language] - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups

Given that each of those 10 functions takes a hash called "options", each layer altering it subtly, but none having the complete picture, and that 9 times out of 10 that hash is not documented on any level, figuring out what your choices are is pure hell. ^{link »}

try out new things to find a solution that has a chance work. Rails doesn't, because its entire culture seems to be fundamentally incapable of thinking more than 5 minutes into the future. ^{link »}

Rumors: iPhone Application Key reportedly leaked - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

With the proper key, developers can create and distribute applications that load through iTunes without Apple's blessing. ^{link »}

Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move

Facebook apps to be displayed on any website. ^{link »}

Facebook may have just changed the game again by essentially becoming an application host. ^{link »}

The Packer 2.0 Threat - Research - SecureWorks: Managed, Monitored & On-Demand Security Services

exploits or other malicious code is delivered successfully because of the packer’s ability to bypass anti-virus and IDS/IPS ^{link »}

Techno Babble @ Jason's Blog - Play a guitar on the iPhone?

a software for the iPhone that emulates a guitar fretboard that makes full use of the phone's incredible multi-touch touchscreen . ^{link »}

Ignore all facebook requests button | One click ignores all applications / invitations

when looking at your application requests just click on it and all ignore buttons will be clicked at once! ^{link »}

"Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey goodbye" Says WordPress To Twitter | CenterNetworks

A new, distributed Twitter for internal groups has arrived and it's called Prologue . Here's the net idea: if you have multiple bloggers on your Wordpress blog, you can now use Twitter-like short messages to chat internally. ^{link »}

using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. ^{link »}

saush.com » Downloading documents programmatically with Google Docs API

It’s the same reason why the Google Documents List Data API was created in the first place — it allows you to write an application that can interact with Google Docs . Say for example if you want to save the document into the database instead of a file. Or you want to allow your users to use their documents on Google Docs to interact with your application. ^{link »}