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Right back atcha, bro; your willful ignorance of the topic or any other solution is, I would say, a focus of your piece. Done: [x] Identify a problem ("overpaid millennial techies …

"I didn't have time to actually make or keep a budget, or learn anything about the topic, so I spent six months writing an app that is basically Mint, but slightly prettier, and wo…

I've noticed the same thing with audio amplifiers. I just moved into a relatively small apartment, and have been shopping around for a compact stereo amplifier that apparently does…

wget http://some.dudes.site/cool_stuff.tar untar cool_stuff.tar cd cool_stuff ls Oh but whoopsy-doodle, cool_stuff comes with this extra-cool script: cat ./ls #!/usr/bin/my-favorit…

See elsewhere in this thread: [Flash] appears to under-perform on every platform I have except Windows (Windows in VMware + Flash is better than native Mac Flash, I swear!). Flash …

The neat thing about iOS and MacOS, compared to Windows in VMWare, is that iOS apps are never 'emulated' on MacOS—they're 'simulated'. In fact, I'd wager that during its developmen…

All very good points, and I think we agree on the major bits. Reading over my last post I think I might have been unclear on the main takeaway: desktop apps are fundamentally diffe…

Disclaimer: I am an iOS developer. Dave might be right in broad strokes, but the post is very muddy on what it would mean for "iOS apps" to run on the MacOS. Fundamentally, it woul…

Try to get all the way into W+K if you can. It's like an ad agency from a Valve game. Absolutely one of the craziest spaces I have ever been in.

For some reason it always astonishes me how incredibly reactionary geeks are. We're supposed to be the neophiles. Listen: for the first time in history, ordinary people are actuall…

Disk images are one of the most confusing things about day-to-day Mac OS X use, no question. The next time you're at a relatively non-technical friend's house, apple-click on Firef…

The in-ear phones have great sound, but they fall apart after about six months unless you're super OCD about wrapping them up in the case every time.

I hate multitasking as much as the next guy (more probably), so I definitely empathize with your thoughts on maximization. (It's also interesting to note that the iOS, Apple's Next…

Pedantry: in iTunes the song plays when you hit Return; Enter will rename. Still different from the Finder (where Return renames), but not quite the same thing.

Ugh, the visual cacophony going on the background behind my applications in OSX are so f-ing distracting, I spend most of my time on a Mac moving the damn windows around and indivi…

I'm not sure how to take that.

Biking in DC is insanely dangerous, and the cyclists here are some of the worst I have ever seen. There is some kind of massive and fundamental lack of recognition that they should…

Sorry, should have qualified that. "No one has figured out how to make money on the Internet except by making games that people will pay not to play[1], somehow managing to sell po…

That's the whole problem: iAds is, to a large extent, a capitulation to the fact that in 20 years no one has figured out how to make money in online digital goods with anything oth…

US CBP is always a pain in the ass. I never have as much trouble entering any foreign country as I do reentering my own. Ludicrous, really.

Nitpick: Nitpicking the historical accuracy of a reference to a '50s musical is a little nitpickier than average. (Next you're going to tell me the Jellicle Cats aren't really comi…

I think King Arthur had the last word on this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZUibOUX28 He was the Joel Spolsky of the Middle Ages, I'm telling you.

Composing presentations, preparing invoices, sketching, Monkey Island, writing. The retina display makes a huge difference for reading, so I tend to use the iPhone for feeds and th…

As I understand it, "well temperament" is something of a blanket term for many systems that attempted to find a universal tuning. We don't really know how Bach's clavier was tuned …