seunghomattyang
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Comment · 14 years ago
Grantland does a really great job.[1] It's probably because Bill Simmons, the founder of Grantland, uses footnotes extensively in his writing.
[1] Example here: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8486795/the-harden-dilem...
Comment · 14 years ago
That sounds like a great concept for a TV show.
Comment · 14 years ago
Related article on the topic of diamonds and cartel: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1982/02/have-you-e...
Comment · 14 years ago
How often does "something" killer actually kill its target?
Comment · 14 years ago
Cook took the opportunity to reflect upon the lessons he learned from Jobs before his death last October, explaining that the founder never wanted Cook to dwell on what he would have wanted after he died. Instead, Jobs wanted Cook to avoid thinking about the past and instead look to the future, focusing on creating the next great thing.
"When he called me to his home to talk about being the CEO and subsequently the discussions we had, he told me, 'I witnessed what happened at Disney when Walt passed away,'" Cook said. "He said that people would go to meetings, and all sit around and talk about, what would Walt have done? How would he view this? And he looked at me with those intense eyes that only he had, and he told me to never do that, to never ask what he would do. Just do what's right. And so I'm doing that." [1]
[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stev...
Comment · 14 years ago
This is the literal deus ex machina.
Comment · 14 years ago
What would constitute a "step forward for mobile computing"? For me, it'd be having the computing power of MacBook Pro on an iPhone. For example, I would hook up—or more likely, wirelessly connect—this hypothetical iPhone to a desktop monitor and run OS X. Arguably, this is 3-5 years down the line and only if Apple pursues this line of thinking.
Comment · 14 years ago
Reminds me of what Chief Creative Officer at doubleTwist said about designing for Android:
>> As it stands, If you design a great app for Android and people say 'hey, that looks like an Android app', that means you've failed.[1]
Comment · 14 years ago
Is there anything left to be done by NASA HQ? For example, are they still controlling the trajectory of the probe to Mars or is that mostly done by probe's onboard computers?
I'm genuinely curious about what kind of things the HQ is doing right now. I've been watching the live stream and there's not much activity besides milling around screens and resizing windows on the huge screen.
Comment · 14 years ago
Dashboard is actually one of my favorite features; I can't live without it. I use the dictionary/thesaurus widget every time I write (or read) and I take down short, temporary notes on the sticky notes. Besides that, I use the clock (to keep tabs on different time zones), weather and calendar widgets, and iStat Pro.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is slightly off-topic but does anyone know how pages on this site load so quickly? It's almost instantaneous on my computer.
Does it use something like this? http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/async_ui
Comment · 14 years ago
An email client that lets me edit the title and body of the mails in my inbox would be a good start. I use email as a to-do list and oftentimes, 90% of the text in the email is not pertinent to that purpose (greetings, signatures, "polite" introductions, etc). Just being able to edit out unnecessary text would be really convenient. The changes would sync with across devices that have this specific mail client and you can restore the original text with just a click.
TL;DR: Mail client that lets you edit other people's emails in the inbox so that you can edit out things that don't fit the context of your mail usage.