Xavier Tobin: …after working through common arguments and misconceptions, such as that the RISC (ARM) instruction set architecture is inherently inferior to CISC (x86), that the benchmarks spruiking excellent ARM performance are inaccurate, that the performance gap is explained by different operating systems, and more, I’ve found that the central claim of these articles largely …
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NetNewsWire Almost Ready to Ship →
Brent Simmons: There are three big things that remain before the first feature-complete build (which will be 5.0a1): searching, the app icon, and syncing with FeedBin. NetNewsWire got me hooked on RSS over 12 years ago. Now it’s open source and rewritem from scratch in Swift. I have been using the alphas for a while …
Bad Words for Describing Software Products →
Greg KoganM You’ve probably seen them used to describe software products. Maybe you use them to describe your own product. They seem like great descriptors, because you know they’re truthful, and what’s true must be convincing, right? ∞Permalink
Out-of-Office Messages are a Security Risk →
Sometimes I’m really out of the office, though, crawling around in the backcountry wilderness or on an island somewhere. I’ll do it if I have to, but even then I don’t like setting an automatic response. There’s no way to do it that doesn’t leak information to a would-be attacker. ∞Permalink
Hilbert’s List →
Seth Godin: As we enter a new year, one in which technology promises to move faster than ever, it’s worth considering what our 23 problems might be. Good starting point for what we need to work on as a species. ∞Permalink
Some advice from Jeff Bezos →
Jason Fried from Basecamp on advice they got from Jeff Bezos: People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today. ∞Permalink
The Oldest Airlines in the World That Are Still Flying Today →
It might surprise some to learn that the world’s second-oldest airline is actually Colombia’s Avianca. It was founded as SCADTA, or Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aéreo and its first flight was from Barranquilla to Puerto Berrio in September 1920. The airline changed its name to Avianca – an acronym of Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia …
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T-Mobile Tackles Customer-Service Woes by Adding a Human Touch →
Bloomberg: The third-largest U.S. wireless carrier unveiled what it claims is a patented customer-service program on Wednesday called Team of Experts. Subscribers who call or message for assistance will be assigned a group of employees to fix the issue. This might sound like a corporate joke, but the few times I’ve had to interact with …
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Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users →
WSJ reporting: The social media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services to users. This sounds like an all-around bad idea. Glad to hear some banks are walking away from these conversations. …
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Why you shouldn’t worry about radiation from your Wi-Fi router or iPhone →
Good article from Mike Wuerthele, writing for AppleInsider. For those that worry too much: If you’re still worried about it, don’t sit on your router, and use your speaker function on your iPhone. You can always buy tons of tin foil. ∞Permalink