Visual spectral diagram showing the noises modems make, and box-outs for what they’re actually saying: …and Transcription for txtrs Modem A: hey babe, you dtmf? Modem B: u know it Modem A: what u up 4 2nite? wanna v.8? Modem B: i wanna ack u like my daddy net2phone use […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
12 posts
Some good observations on tech business strategy here Low-margin can still mean high-value-business: “Most people just look at a company’s margins and judge the quality of the business model based on that, but the cash flow characteristics of the business can make one company a far more valuable company than […]
Here’s the magic URL, that you can’t access directly from the site: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/bookflightsandmore/bookflights/callme.jsp Huh? In 5+ years of flying with Virgin, their online booking system has always, every single time, failed – and redirected me to a page where I get that link to get THEM to phone ME. (which […]
While upgrading Unity, I noticed the current download page is a great example of how it SHOULD be done: Unity 4 has some … issues … with backwards compatibility – but at least they made the “need an older version?” link prominent. And how many old versions can you download? […]
Unity’s QA dept needs a smack up-side the head. If you get this bug, you’re a bit screwed – the only “fix” is to go into system settings and wipe Unity’s crud. Error message: type == kMetaAssetType && pathName.find (“library/metadata”) != 0 Thanks, Unity, that’s very human-readable and helpful. Not. […]
Prologue: Apple et al recommend you “install new OS’s from USB, not DVD – USB is faster”, but I’ve never bothered before. However, there appears to be a major defect in most Apple iMacs, where the DVD drives fail after only a dozen or so uses (google it and there’s […]
The 21st century will be dominated by “digital” culture and art. History suggests that non-digital art will flourish too (while becoming a smaller, more specialized, part of a larger pie). So it’s all good: more people will have more opportunities to create – and more access to experience – a […]
“Based on a analysis of 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio and a survey of 414 programmers (Parnin:10), we found: A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. When interrupted during an edit of a method, […]
OfficeTime is one of the more popular/higher rated time-tracking apps for iOS / OS X. On the whole, it’s fine. But exporting the data – which is half of the app’s purpose – is extremely difficult. There’s no docs I could find either in the app or on the website. […]
I don’t normally blog about this stuff, but here we have the intersection of an eloquent speaker on core matters of modern life and how they intersect the legal systems … with the kind of tragedy that’s often threatened when elements of society have orders of magnitude more power than […]
I noticed a few months back that Pat Wyatt has been blogging rgularly and in a lot of detail last year. This (IMHO) is big news: Pat is an awesome developer who held key positions in the teams behind many of the bestselling computer games (e.g.: Diablo 1 + 2, […]
SVG is an awesome image format thats widely used, works in all browsers. SVG graphics make better apps and better games – and automatically “upgrade” themselves for future devices. This post gives some simple 1-line / few lines of code recipes for using some of the main features of SVGKit […]