I’m Reading…Thanks to Lawrence, Ryan, JSTN. while (days > 365) { if (IsLeapYear(year)) { if (days > 366) { days -= 366; year += 1; } } else { days -= 365; year += 1; } } For non-programmers out there, this is what we like to call in technical terms “an infinite loop”. This code [...]
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One of the best parts of my job at LinkedIn is responsibility for a world-class User Experience & Design team. It’s a new and rapidly growing team, and with the addition of new people and new voices, I’ve really enjoyed the thoughtful discussions and debates that have been occurring. Recently, an article featured on the [...]
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Got to be careful what I say here. Mike Schroepfer might be reading. Actually, I was reading his blog when I found out that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out. You can download it here. I’m playing the naive user for now… just installed it and using it, without reading up on the specifics of [...]
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This article was funny enough that I had to share. Engadget: Michael Bay’s format war conspiracy theory: it’s a Microsoft fix Here is a tidbit: Responding to a commenter angry over Paramount’s decision to burn Optimus and friends onto HD DVD only, Bay claims to have the inside track on the “corporate politics” at play [...]
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Who knew David Pogue was a funny guy? This video cracked me up.
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I, like everyone else, am enjoying reading this post of pseudo-Q&A with an engineer who worked for Microsoft, then joined a startup that got acquired by Google. Not sure how legitimate it is, but everything in it rings true. Lots of insights into the Google culture, as well as some of the innovations they have [...]
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Elliot, this post is for you. A couple of weeks ago, I got really irritated with the whole Mac/Windows thing. I had purchased a USB hard drive with the intention of using it as a backup drive for both Mac & Windows machines. Unfortunately, I discovered that Mac OS X cannot write to NTFS volumes [...]
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OK, sensationalist title for some trivial pictures, but these were too good to pass up. Don Dodge posted some images from the recent Mix07 conference. Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Pictured left to right: Sam Ramji – Microsoft, Rob Conery – SubSonic, Andi Gutmans – Zend Technologies, Mike Schroepfer – Mozilla, Miguel [...]
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I feel like I’m perpetually behind with my blog lately. This tidbit is from a few days ago, but I think interesting enough to still warrant a post. JumpTap has a nice chart out on their breakdown of search queries from mobile phones. Turns out 12% of the queries can be classified as “adult” in [...]
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Sorry, one last post for the night. This was too cool to pass up. The Macintosh BU at Microsoft, which was formed after the 1997 Apple/Microsoft alliance, just celebrated their 10th anniversary. Apparently, what greeted them in the morning was gorgeous pixel art: Of course, it turned out to not be pixel art per-se, but [...]
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Who would have guessed that on a random Tuesday in February, Steve Jobs would decide to drop a bomb on the music industry. But that’s what he did today, on the Apple.com website: Thoughts on Music: Apple.com There are a lot of good summaries on the web already. Here is the one from Don Dodge, [...]
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As someone who has been following the Apple/Microsoft relationship for almost twenty years, this week offered a real first for me – Bill Gates losing his cool in the face of relentless questions about Microsoft Vista vs. Apple Mac OS X. It starts with this Newsweek interview with Bill Gates about the launch of Vista. [...]
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There is a new blog on WordPress called Graceful Flavor, and they tend to focus on Apple news. They had a post yesterday that immediately caught my eye, entitled: New Microsoft Email Shows Panic Over OS X Tiger Features Now, everyone these days expects Microsoft to have iPod-envy, iTunes-envy, even iPhone-envy. But given that the [...]
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Sorry, but I found two Apple/Microsoft snippets worth posting today. This ComputerWorld article is amazing. Jim Allchin is the long-time development chief for Windows at Microsoft. ComputerWorld is reporting that a 2004 e-mail from Allchin chastizes Microsoft for having lost focus on the user, and says that he would buy a Mac if he didn’t [...]
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Found this funny snippet today online. Looks like Microsoft was caught with an Apple icon on one of its properties. Here is the image from Microsoft’s website for Vista Business Edition: Here is the original version from Apple’s Workgroup Server: Funny snarky comment from the blog where I got this: Think of a snarky comment [...]
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