Archive | March, 2010
March 28, 2010 

Is the file system an outdated concept?

A rather interesting post by Rob Foster where he observes that no one seems to know how to use the file system, besides the Documents folder and the Desktop, and so arguably, the elimination of the visual file system in favor of “apps and their stuff” in the iPhone/iPad was a good thing (link via [...]

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March 18, 2010 

Value vs. Revenue

I have been working for Comcast Interactive Media for over 5 years, thats a lot by some measures and barely anything by others. This is my first full time job and as those go, not particularly shabby. Off late I have been involved in more R&D/labs/prototypes kinds of projects ever since my move to the [...]

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March 4, 2010 

Collected links from the whole Apple/HTC lawsuit thing

So, Apple sues HTC with over 20 patents, most of them idiotically trivial, including for example, Time-based, non-constant translation of user interface objects between states, which to the lay-developer should read “transitions”. Ah so Apple patented transitions in 2001, somebody better tell all the developers who are using things like jQuery effects, Tweenlite etc. Steve [...]

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