September 2007
“We are, as engineers, taught to be servants. We’re trained to do things, not to...”
– Re-engineering Engineering Education
“15 percent of freshmen enrolled at America’s highly selective colleges are...”
– At the elite colleges - dim white kids
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My new homepage, feedback much appreciated
“He was fully aware we’d throw the whole thing away, but he knew that the ability...”
– Shipping a 1.0 product isn’t going to kill you, but it will try
“the selective colleges serve less as vehicles of upward mobility than as...”
– The New College Try
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“Only in south kensington do the homeless sell country house magazine”
– Twitter / Damien Tanner
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“When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore,...”
– CMU professor gives his last lesson on life
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“Sidekick users are often the hub of their circle of friend”
– Access MySpace with T-Mobile’s New Danger Powered Sidekick
“You will never be as influential as Jonathan Ive or Tim Berners-Lee”
– Stephen Fry Interviewing Tony Blair [.mp3]
“The HTC Touch is called (by idiots) an iPhone killer because it comes without a...”
– Stephen Fry on the topic of iphone killers
Application postures
I think that personal communications devices’ applications have only three potential postures:
Transient – any application users use and then put the phone back down. SMS, weather, voice calls, banking, etc.
Daemonic – SMS alerts plus device activities.
Parasitic – a “big” application, such as email or games or a browser.
[via little springs]
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“The interview won’t be technically challenging but you can be tripped up by not...”
– Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews
“Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination...”
– They Did Not Give Up
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“any service that forces customers to scream is a bad idea”
– Don’t make me scream - (37signals)
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