tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Recreating the Image Viewer UI from Blade Runner
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tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Perils of Convenience – In Technology, In Life
A vey interesting post. I'm actually excited about the ability to pa by mail and in general paying for things online in a more convenient way than having to create accounts at all these web sites and then having to fill my personal and payment details. Having said that, I do agree with the author that indeed we are moving (albeit sometimes too slowly to realize) into a more passive state of existence where more is done for us and we sometime loss some of the subtle qualities of human connections. Having siad that - what can you do? progress is progress and while we might feel sentimental sometime we have no option or alternative but to adapt ourselves to it.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: AWS Olympics: Speed-Testing EC2 and S3 Across Regions
Thanks for putting this up. I'd be very intrested to know if anyone has ever done a similar test with Azure?
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Pwnium 3 and Pwn2Own Results
I wish more companies would go down that road of actively encouraging the community to hack their products. There's a certain degree you need to have in your product to do this. I guess a lot of big companies don't have the kind of culture which would allow this to happen, regardless of the good it would do to the product.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Analytics - Keeping track of the pulse of your startup
Can all products be measured according to just 3/4 metrics? Are there any examples of tech products out there we use today who we can't?
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: No Google Glasses allowed, declares Seattle dive bar
I'm pretty sure there were a lot of businesses who banned cell phones 10 years ago. We'll wait and see how Glass goes.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Get A Web Designer Right Now
It's a good call for action, but from my own experiences the cost of rebuilding things (time,money,breaking stuff) is so great, and there's no real incentive for anyone within the company to do so. On the bright side - this does open a window for new enterprise start ups to redo these kind of systems and win over large and legacy software.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Worldwide Network Lets Robots Ask Each Other Questions
Rossie's hand are hilarious. Too bad I don't at sausages.. I'll gladly wait for the pastry cook version though
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Apple belatedly patches App Store vulnerability
They probably want us to treat it as a feature :)
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Acme vs emacs vs vim
For me once I went with the Sublime texteditor there was no going back.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: If you can explain your program to a rubber duck it's probably OK
Having worked in the industry for a while, my rubber duck is quite educated by now. I find he understands most of the applications I write (it wasn't so in the beginning!) and at times makes very helpful suggestions, although I'm loath to admit I don't always give him the positive feedback he so deserves.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Maths skills add up to higher earnings, study finds
I bless (and curse) my high school math teacher for the insane amount of homework he gave us. Thanks mr. Rappaport!
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Apple CEO paid less than Nokia CEO
im pretty sure Cook got like a $400m grant to vest over 10y when he got started. Anyways, I do hope for Elop he's getting paid in cache and not stock.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: How the feds predict the future (Using big data)
Should I be creeped out by this? (hope not...)
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Review: Chromebook Pixel is too expensive (and too good) for Chrome OS
The hardware looks great. The thing that bugs me about the pixel and chrome OS in general, is that I don't know a lot of people who can manage their day by day work using only web apps (no office, photoshop, autocad, eclipse, whatever). Web based replacements are good, but just not as good as desktop creation apps, and I'm still not even sure they need to be. The point is most people need win/Mac/Linux software and for the ones who don't (like my mom) - just get an iPad. Then again, I might be completely wrong here.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Eric Holder's Letter to Rand Paul on Authority to Target U.S. Citizens w/ Drones
You've got to hand it to Holder. Answering a 13 hour filibuster with a 2 sentence letter - that shows some class.
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: Hacking First Meetings For Startups
Interesting - My understanding of these was that by using this kind of open communication you'll be able to get(most) people to open up and tell you more about what they do, which might help as you as you make your way into an organization. When/how do you think this can put you in bad spot during negotiations?
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: A Pythonic, TTM-inspired interface to PostgreSQL – Requirements
Python is getting the respect it deserves. I'm interested to know whether someone here has experience to share in running Python under JPython in production ?
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: New Sanctions Imposed on North Korea as it Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack
The only comfort in their maniacal prison system state is that they make funny propaganda videos (the one with "we are the world" should totally get an SNL cover). Other than that it's a complete human tragedy. Let's hope for a Korean spring soon..
tawgx | 13 years ago | on: The 'Big Data' Revolution: How Number Crunchers Can Predict Our Lives
Programming/administering SQL based DB apps is just such a hassle and pain that anything to replace that paradigm (NoSql,Hadoop,..) is such a welcome change. I hope that the open source community keeps leading this space, so we don't end up with MS, Oracle,HP, etc buying up the space and get us back to square one.
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Growing up I always like the UX they had for things in star-trek TNG. Back then in the nineties touch based interfaces were really something out of a sci-fi movies, and now 20 years later they're commonplace, which gets me to the point - is there anyone working on a starr trek like JS UX framework? That would be so cool!