Marco Arment at Webstock 2011:
Product design is not a democracy; let others guide you, but not direct you
Product design is not a democracy
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Documentary on an inspiring Japanese grade school teacher
A five-part documentary, Children Full of Life, on how a Japanese grade school teacher inspires a group of fourth-grade school children.
Getting paid
Mike Monteiro’s Fuck you. Pay Me. is essential viewing for anyone involved in contract and freelance work. Unless, of course, you don’t want to get paid.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
The big picture on what a Ph.D. really is.
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Looking and seeing
Tay Kay Chin, one of Singapore’s most well-known photographer, in an interview in 2005:
People looking at ordinary scenes in life translated into pictures often have one of the two reactions – “boring” or “hmm, why haven’t I see it all these years”. I think people who think they know everything in life or photography need to occasionally take five steps backward and ask: I am looking, but am I seeing? Because of the ease in which a photograph can be made, people have now forgotten to ask the other question: why or why not? I think many people have forgotten photography’s principle role – preserving memories.
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One step forward for Camera+, ten steps backwards for photography
Today, tap tap tap announced version 2.2 of their popular iPhone camera app:
Our main, new feature in this version is something we call Clarity, which, in a nutshell, is our response to Apple’s HDR
It’s suppose to help turn photos taken under terrible lighting into slightly useable ones. In short, another step towards photography without regard for light.
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SNLog: output your NSLog to a file
SNLog improves on NSLog by logging the method name, line number, and allowing you to write the output to a file.
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How not to provide feedback
Justin Williams on how you shouldn’t be a dick just because you’re on the Internet, or how not to provide feedback to just about anyone who has poured in heart and soul into their work:
Here is a tip for all the non-developers out there. When you email your favorite developer with a feature request or bug report never, ever, ever use the word useless to describe their product. Useless is kryptonite to developers and puts us on the defensive instantly…
The Internet makes it really easy to be a jerk to someone because you don’t have to insult their product to their face and can instead shoot it off to an email address in the sky without any idea or care about who is on the other end.
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Rules for computing happiness
Alex Payne’s Rules for Computing Happiness:
Use as little software as possible.
Use software that does one thing well.
Do not use software that does many things poorly…
Posting to Twitter is like throwing valuable things into a junk drawer…
Justin Williams on the Twitter’s Great Migration:
Hopefully those new product offerings include giving me full access to the 15,290 tweets I have written since joining the service five years ago. That data silo is one of the major reasons I am so gunshy of posting content I care about to Twitter anymore. At least with this site, I know I can instantly access everything I’ve written.
I’ve always wondered why nobody else is complaining that it’s just so damn difficult to find anything more than a day old in Twitter.
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