The big secret to the iPhone is that it was an easy to use phone in the shape of The Thing From The Future.
InfoQ: A Crash Course in Modern Hardware
A video on what makes modern processors so hard to study and predict performance.
Favorite quotes:
Your program…is going to be blips between cache misses.
The real new goal of all these hardware tricks is to run until you can get to the next cache miss.
Modern system architectures, and the timing differences between subsystems (Registers, L[1-3] caches, main memory, SSDs, HDs, and network) is just mindblowing.
And you offer me dead trees and papercut nostalgia.
John Carey’s Most Excellent Photoblog – Shawn Blanc
In addition to subscribing to fiftyfootshadows.net, I also recommend that you: (a) download all of John’s desktop wallpapers; (b) set them to rotate every hour; and (c) enjoy.
Seconded. These are gorgeous.
Any sufficiently advanced damage control is indistinguishable from ethics.
I suppose that’s a major theme of this decade that has just been: the failure of companies to give the consumers what they want, which in turn has resulted in a culture where illegality, piracy and hacking is the norm.
plots polynomial roots via trivium
mathematics: incredible, complex beauty lies buried inside simple logic.
ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Rebranding Playboy
An imaginative rebranding and revamping of Playboy, both its logo and its magazine content.
Burger Tastings
sh:
“Do you rank a burger based on, ‘My friend came in from out of town, where should I take him?’ Versus, ‘If I had all 45 burgers in front of me sitting on a table, which one would I eat?’ That’s the healthy debate.”
I want to do this.
