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Jevon's Paradox! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons's_paradox

> The other thing I would say is to stay close to professions that create and make things, and stay away from derivative professions like finance. I think makers increasingly have …

Garbage collection is controlled by the mob.

Because it's part of a series: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/our-series-on-the-d... With an entirely separate article on women: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/upshot/…

Actually ComponentKit is built on GCD! https://github.com/facebook/componentkit/blob/master/Compone... GCD is fantastic—one of my absolute favorites. We're trying to solve a proble…

Will do shortly.

You're right about this. My terminology was incorrect.

Requires writing to executable pages, which iOS doesn't have.

pngquant is great. I make an iPhone app that displays transit maps. Transit maps are ideal candidates for quantization (limited color range, large blocks of color that are perfect …

Fatal flaw in this plan: unions. New York has already tried to switch to driverless subways, but progress is slow due to constant union interference.

Windows 1.01 feels much closer to Mac Classic than Windows 3.1 does. (Button appearance, close button on left, menus must be held down to stay open, "Get Info" instead of "Properti…

> sentenced to a community order for 49 hours and ordered to pay £400 costs at Brent Magistrates' Court for theft from motor vehicle To me (an American), that sentence seems incred…

"Out of 86 guests, I've only had problems with 15 guests." "only"? n.b.: If your business model is renting out luxury condos to people on the Internet, you're going to have a bad t…

BART jobs are quite supply constrained. Sure, union jobs are great if you can get one, but there aren't many to go around. Plus, who would really enjoy working in a workplace where…

That's precisely what he argued though: "A 2010 study by the Goldwater Institute identified "administrative bloat" as a leading reason for higher costs. The study found that many A…

If the NSA was MITMing SSL communications on a wide scale, presumably the companies would notice that the cert fingerprints were not what the companies expected.

Teach her to pinch zoom. Double tap-zoom is a power user gesture.

Agreed—mostly because it's SIMPLE!

I took Brian Kernighan's class when I studied at Princeton. As part of the class I developed www.itrans.info which set me on my way to being an independent app developer. I'm enorm…

Correct.

Nice idea, but the sample code they show in the screenshot uses "FALSE" instead of NO (the Obj-C standard boolean literal). I'm not sure how they did that (#define?) but stay far, …

For webapps, I agree. There is no progression of state in a webapp's "controller" object: it's one shot and done. For native apps in frameworks like Cocoa Touch of course it's an e…