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Hey, thanks for the comments. I like talking about this stuff. A. I wasn't talking about loading a nib vs programmatically wiring up a view. Many people never touch interface build…

It's true, I didn't read up on the tech at all. That was just my initial reaction. If it's fast, great! I'd love to see some performance benchmarks. As for Objective-C, whether the…

I can't speak for the parent, but my take on it is that Ruby is considerably slower than Objective-C and one of the slower scripting languages in common use, IIRC. I wouldn't go ou…

I'm afraid you're mistaken. The book you mention does exist, but as graeme pointed out, it's an "unintentional" parody of the original phrase "the medium is the message", which is …

It's useful to keep in mind McCluhan's adage "the medium is the message". It's the way a new medium influences culture in and of itself that has the greatest impact on us, not the …

Strictly speaking, Japanese is moraic, in that it divides the rhythm of speech into units potentially smaller than a "conventional" syllable. For instance, the transliteration of "…

SupderCollider is a lot of fun, though I've been getting more and more interested in overtone lately, especially because by using a more general purpose language you can avoid some…

The New York Times article the post initially links to is a lot more interesting. Besides debunking formal brainstorming processes, it also points out the increasing necessity of c…

Nice, I'm going to check that out :)

Nothing odd about it, IMHO. One of the things I think tech-oriented people consistently ignore is the role of emotion and the subconscious in decision making, even in what are nomi…

in UI design, polish and usability == working correctly

Teaching is hard. I understand the impetus to filter out students that are less naturally inclined to it, and if your goal is to establish something of a programming conservatory, …

Well, take this Clojure tutorial, for instance, comparing a simple DI implementation in Java with a single function in Clojure. The latter bears almost no resemblance to the former…

Interesting. I suppose when I think of DI I usually think of Java. Do you know of a good example of the DI pattern being used in functional languages?

You can't add code to ducks any more than you can add code to sockets. Let's assume for a moment the hypothetical student in this scenario is bright enough to tell the difference b…

As I'm sure others will point out, this article has less to do with node.js as it does with embedding v8 in Nginx. Although since node.js runs in v8, I suppose you could interpret …