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Apple's AI Strategy: Let Rivals Spend .6T in Data Centers. The "back end" vendors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon AWS, Facebook) don't have much of a choice than to jump in head first, …

This is true (about Twitter.) Apple falls very far from that tree. Lots of money is being transferred to developers even today. It's just hard to see because so much is getting slo…

Developers on Apple's platforms pour their careers and lives into building apps that predominately depend on Apple. This is a very large commitment, yet most developers tend to hav…

"Best stuff" depends on who "we" are... Here are some other users who may feel they are getting the "best stuff": Compiler designers, programming language researchers, or even CS s…

It's in Apple's advantage for server-side Swift to take off, and do so quickly and robustly. It also makes little sense (nor is in character) for Apple to agree to open source Swif…

Speculation of course is that this is the foreshadowing the arrival of Kindle Phone. A more intriguing possibility is that Amazon is setting stage for its next move in Platform War…

The referenced Heer & Robertson paper discusses chained animated transitions that take you from one type of visualization to another in a way that explains the relationship between…

...And Urs Hoelzle worked on the implementation of Self programming language when he was a PhD student at Stanford. Self was the result of a drastic simplification of Smalltalk. Ap…

> This is leaps and bounds better than Apple Maps and even the original maps client on iOS that used Google Maps. Thus Apple has achieved its goal of upgrading the map experience o…

Taking the blame sure beats blaming others (see tragic case of Philip Greenspun's ArsDigita http://rura.org/blog/category/businesscompaniesarsdigita/ ) Having said that, and realiz…

1) Hard to use for mere mortal users (QA, testers, normal users posting issue for an App, etc. 2) If uploaded to another site, the images are under a different protection domain (f…

Horace Dediu of Asymco has produced a much better graphic and analysis to go along with it: http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-person...

My wish came true in less than one day! Check it out https://github.com/blog/1347-issue-attachments

The #1 missing feature in github for our team is that we can't attach files directly from Issues Web UI. Usually we need this for screenshots, but sometimes data files, logs and ot…

Jacob Nielsen details many of the usability issues of Metro design, see Flat Style Reduces Discoverability in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html . At the highest level, M…

Most Desktop web browsers provide quite many affordances for links, and do so automatically upon hover: change cursor, underline, pop up link description, show URL in status area. …