The new issue of Wired has a nice 5,000-word piece by Daniel Roth offering a behind-the-scenes look at Google Android. More about Google’s (and their Android team’s) motivation and goals than about specific details of the platform, but interesting. …
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★ Trade-Offs
http://daringfireball.net/2008/06/tradeoffsA big part of design is managing trade-offs. To crudely paraphrase a (purported) quote from Abraham Lincoln, you can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. A simple trade-off between two things is like a seesaw: move one up and the other goes down. …
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★ New Linked List Permalinks
http://daringfireball.net/2008/06/new_linked_list_permalinksA small housekeeping change here at DF: each Linked List entry now has its own unique permalink URL. So, for example, yesterday’s link to Andy Baio’s interview with The Big Picture’s Alan Taylor has a permanent URL here: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/06/20/alan-taylor Previously, the …
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Hot Links - Level 4
http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/?n=4ye olde days, displaying PDF documents in the browser drove me nuts. You'd unwittingly click on a link, and your entire web browser would freeze up for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader started. But since PDF is baked so closely into the OS X system, thi [via] # cameron : Firefox 3 Native Quartz PDF viewer - Shows PDFs inline, something I've been waiting for for quite some time. Tags : askmefi browser extension firefox mac mac/osx pdf plugin software download
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Version control ramble
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/07/version-control-ram...a try. If it sets up repositories on the fly and handles checkin and checkout as well as Emacs—but for binary as well as text files—I may buy it. But I am concerned about something John Gruber said in a recent post: It strikes me as an odd coincidence that two serious Subversion clients [Cornerstone and Versions] would debut at a time when many developers are starting to switch away from Subversion to distributed revision control systems such as Git and
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First
http://www.priestas.net/2008/07/06/first/ll write and it will probably never amount to more than a stream of consciousness, but I’ll at least get a laugh when I look back in 20 years. I’m no designer and you could classify the new look as the bastard child of Daring Fireball
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omg blog!! lol!!
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"The platform is the story. Platforms have staying power, and, once entrenched, are very hard to..."
http://leighhimel.tumblr.com/post/41255313John Gruber
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pmunz $$$
http://pmunz.wordpress.comRegular Reads Big Contrarian Daring Fireball Defective Yeti Fake Steve Tucson Scene
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Removing unnecessaries
http://blog.labnotes.org/2008/07/06/removing-unnecessaries/Jack Shedd writes an excellent blog, (Via John Gruber), and once again brings the point of unnecessary debris: So many sites these days are filled with what can only be called “debris”. Useless remnants of other sites: things of no real use, yet there anyway. The right-hand columns and after-article
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Valhalla Island by Jim Whimpey
http://jimwhimpey.comAndroid Expectations
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Ew.
http://www.oceansidenevada.com/2008/07/06/ew/great things about giving up my Treo was no longer having to deal with application UI like this: I’m really hoping for a capable mileage tracking app when the App Store debuts. This one is automatically an also ran. Via Daring Fireball
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gnomonkey
http://gnomonkey.com.Interspode Michael Bay’s Rejected ‘The Dark Knight’ Script (Daring Fireball)Lost scenes from Metropolis found (Boing Boing)Star Trek Trike (Boing Boing)Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us (Ars Technica)Bisected Lenses Are Mechanically Intricate Yet Poetically Utilitarian [Photography]
