tlvx:
A conversation about Sketchpad, and doing new, great things:
Alan Kay: “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object-oriented software system all in one year? There was nothing like this before.”
Ivan Sutherland: “Well, I didn’t know it was hard.”
Also, the year was 1963. (!!)
via John Gruber.
“I don’t think about records. I don’t put myself under pressure. I know what to do and I go and execute.”BBC SPORT | Athletics | Awesome Bolt breaks 200m record
“The interpreter was written by someone who shouldn’t have stayed up so late, Edwin Brady, and the language was designed by two people who shouldn’t have had so much to drink, Edwin Brady and Chris Morris. No doubt Andrew Stribblehill isn’t entirely blameless either.”Whitespace
“Piracy is essentially the consumer’s wish to have everything on demand. It’s not like people want to necessarily have it for free”
Daniel Ek - founder of Spotify
Slipstream - Streaming Services May Soothe the Music Industry - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
(via tylerhwillis) So true.
Pacman Joins Twitter [Cartoon]
via superamit
Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won’t say anything
that’s worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours tills gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
“If we want to write parallel programs that work reliably, we must pay particular attention to beauty. Sadly, parallel program are often less beautiful than their sequential cousins; in particular they are, as we shall see, less modular.”Papers on transactional memory
“Joel Spolsky: A Visit to Microsoft and Google, Starting a Business Article - Inc. ArticleI found it interesting that someone at Microsoft thought that it was important to control how guests use the Wi-Fi network and created a whole complicated system of registration and a nice four-color brochure, while the person with the same job at Google just decided to make the Wi-Fi free and open.
Presumably that person at Microsoft was very convinced that all kinds of chaos would ensue if guests just willy-nilly connected their laptop computers to the Internet. And yet Google proves that no such mayhem actually occurs.
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“Two economists working at Dartmouth, Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra, found that the more money Medicare spent per person in a given state the lower that state’s quality ranking tended to be. In fact, the four states with the highest levels of spending—Louisiana, Texas, California, and Florida—were near the bottom of the national rankings on the quality of patient care.”Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“It is still too early to argue whether Wave can or will every replace email (it’s only a developer preview at this point after all), but after using it for a while, we really hoped that we could add more of our contacts to our list so that it could become our default messaging system - until then, though, we are back to Gmail and IM.”
Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions
