2010
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If Larry and Sergey were better web designers…
…Google would not be as big a success. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein The founders of Google were PhD geniuses who wanted to create a more accurate [...]
Web developers rejoice
I’ve just come across one of the best new products for mobile development: Appcelerator’s Titanium – create, test and distribute native mobile apps using html, javascript and css. Not only does Titanium really lower the bar for mobile application development for web developers, it compiles them natively for the iPhone and Android. You essentially write [...]
Kayaks vs Canoes
In the North Pacific ocean, there were two approaches to boatbuilding. The Aleuts (and their kayak-building relatives) lived on barren, treeless islands and built their vessels by piecing together skeletal frameworks from fragments of beach-combed wood. The Tlingit (and their dugout canoe-building relatives) built their vessels by selecting entire trees out of the rainforest and [...]
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