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Skeuomorphs are cultural algorithms, borrowing functional forms of the past to make the new objects of similar function more comfortably familiar. The ribs on the handle of a knife…

Form indicates function? Or at least insinuates.

There's a tremendous advantage in making new things feel "comfortably familiar". His iPad drawing apps are great examples. I showed Paper to a Mom recently, who immediately purchas…

I think that definition misses most of the point that the similarity is a deliberate throwback. I'd say a skeuomorph is a (often otherwise unnecessary) design feature that makes a …

> You seem to be saying the he's very talented, so it's likely not a lack of ability, but a lack of will. False dichotomy ... If a developer does quality work as claimed above, its…

> he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. His work is of top quality (why I selected him), but his progress is disappointingly slow Programmers "…

Handstand. (Or fingers.)

Tanks are still driven this way. Never thought of it as reins.

I suppose now the cat's out of the bag.

I agree with you. In the video I didn't see a medium white Canon lens as illustrated there. I'm not sure guessing at what a man in a hostile zone is brandishing from behind a corne…

Right, because photo stills from "collateralmurder.com" are intended to convey the ease of identification from a moving helicopter during a live situation? There are other form fac…

> clearly unarmed Even "collateralmurder.com" says the men are carrying "something that might be a weapon" and "what appears to be a weapon" and that site is hardly unbiased.

Meaning revenue if this particular latest good month were multiplied by 12, which, if growing, gives a number larger than actual annual revenue.

I understand the pigeonhole filing example, but I quit "filing" years ago. It's tedious. Tagging also takes too much thought, particularly at recall time: did I tag that "developme…

First, I love reMail. Gabor breathes email and search. If you own an iPhone and use Gmail or Google Apps, get reMail--you'll thank him. That said, it's easy to skim this article an…

Techcrunch could be delivered as a PDF. I get it on my Kindle. Just as most new web sites are not startup companies, most existing web sites are not apps. The distinction and diffe…

Is "O-off" a subtle dig at OAuth, or an audio transcription typo?

Sheldon State Community College in Alabama had their information rejected when their paperwork said that 14,500 jobs were created with the $27,502 they received. Hanlon's razor: "N…

> the interesting code snippets Copyright allows snippets of works for discussion under concept of fair use. It doesn't allow wholesale republishing into a distribution channel of …

The directions used to illustrate the improvements would have been more interesting if all were between the same points.

Except, say, CloudFront, which requires S3 as origin.

Speaking of Google, accepting username+label@gmail.com is a sign of the true faith. (Curiously, while most sites object, folks from Tirerack to VMware accept it but then occasional…

Out of curiosity, how do you track frequency or recency of use? Just remembering, or is there data to be found?

> If you perceive that the value of something that you have is more than you're being offered, that's the market saying "keep it". Or, with no supply, and no demand, it could be ar…