December 2009
22 posts
what’s your stop doing list? | White Hot Truth:... →
How do you keep up? →
I’ve got an LJ account and a Facebook account. I think I have a MySpace account, but I never go there. And I seldom keep up with Facebook, either. It takes all my energy just to keep up on my LJ…
Untitled Document Syndrome | Daring Fireball →
mnmal:
Saving a document for the first time is a minor chore, but it’s a chore nonetheless. The avoidance of such a minor chore is not rational; it is neither particularly complicated nor time consuming to hit Command-S and deal with the Save dialog. But we humans are not perfectly rational. We don’t always floss our teeth. We’ll pick the burger and fries instead of the salad. We’ll have one...
The Egoless Admin | freshmeat.net →
“Well-managed systems will have problems now and then — it’s unavoidable — but poorly managed systems pummel you with problems every day.”
“Well-managed systems will have problems now and then — it’s...”
– The Egoless Admin | freshmeat.net
You do not, in fact, catch more flies with... →
The Condimentary Preferences of Drosophila
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein (via mnmal)
Simplicity Is Highly Overrated →
Logic and reason, I have to keep explaining, are wonderful virtues, but they are irrelevant in describing human behavior. Trying to prove a point through intelligent, reasonable argumentation is what I call the “engineer’s fallacy.” (Also, the economist’s fallacy.”) We have to design for the way people really behave, not as engineers or economists would prefer them to behave.
The fail manifesto →
mnmal:
We are uncovering better ways of failing in this industry by doing it and helping others do it. We are adding yet more bloated and abstract concepts that are so complicated no one knows what they actually mean. If they do mean anything at all.
“Don’t confuse features with functionality. Don’t confuse user experience with...”
– Friedisms (via mnmal)
Dan Bricklin's Note Taker →
SuperGenPass: A Free Bookmarklet Password... →
WatchI found this incredibly inspiring.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Watchmnmal:
David Pogue says “Simplicity sells” at TED. Fantastic
The Mediocre Multitasker - NYTimes.com →
“What’s the lesson to be learned? if you want a boost in productivity, try...”
– You can’t multitask (via mnmal)
6 Reasons to Reduce Clutter Today | MinimalistPath →
5 Minimalist Actions in 5 Minutes | MinimalistPath →
How to write fast code →
mnmal:
xn—22h:
“The CPU,” he said, “runs at a certain speed. It can execute a fixed number of instructions per second, and no more. There is a finite limit to how many instructions per second it can execute. Right?”
“Right,” I said.
“So there is no way, really, to make code go faster, because there is no way to make instructions execute faster. There is only such a thing as making the...
“Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say...”
– The Unix Philosophy (via mnmal)
Installing on Dreamhost Using SSH - radiant -... →