July 2008
7 posts
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender →
This is pretty neat! I am 77% likely to be male which I guess is a relief.
“3D Dock has no right to live. But not because in Cupertino they drew sidelines...”
– Graphic design/HCI people don’t like the Leopard dock. I personally just think the rage is funny, although it’s uncustomary for Apple to be so ignorant to the “little details” like this.
Why your favorite language is unpopular →
This is quite interesting (and thankfully has not much to do with Arc).
“Quit Thinking and Look”
– Apparently this is a chapter heading in David Agan’s Debugging. It’s something that most of us software engineers forget to do, though.
“Trying to fix HTML is like trying to graft arms and legs onto hamburger.”
– Ted Nelson
I’m Gonna Go Teabag Your Cat by Dan Warren,...