I did a little exercise of price comparing a spec’ed out Lenovo X220, and 13 inch mbp. Surprisingly, they came out to about the same (core i7 2.7ghz, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd) I realized, when you actually do the PC/Mac price comparison, the only angle that matters is Mac vs custom built PC. Comparing Mac to other […]
jingc: Lessons from Starcraft It’s not often that an answer on Quora ends up in the news, but this one was particularly good: Long term success is usually achieved by getting a small advantage and then using that to get some other kind of advantage. In StarCraft, this can mean something like getting map control […]
Simple thought experiment for the day: does it make sense for Apple to purposely keep it’s prices high? Yes, of course, they want to maximize the revenue on their products to make the most profit, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the fact that the more economies of scale they achieve, […]
I’ve always liked playing with blogging systems, and now I think I might actually try to build my own again. Back in the day, I’d try to hack up WordPress or Textpattern to do what I want, but problems inevitably arise. Because basically every system out there is a dynamic one, you have to keep […]
Why is OSX so bad at laying out windows when monitor topology changes? It’s apallingly bad, and I remember filing a bug with them a long time ago about this (back in the powerbook days). Is it really that hard? For each window, just find a the position that makes most of it visible. Right […]
I often hear people talking about how they look for software “generalists”. I tend to think the term is somewhat misleading. I think it’s mostly used to contrast with “specialists”. The old breadth vs depth thing. But you don’t want people who will only have shallow(er) knowledge of lots of areas. A bunch of people […]
I’m pretty sure this is new behavior in Chrome 11: It’s subtle, but non-selected tabs are now somewhat transparent. Really? Do people really like this stuff? IE9 does it too, and drives me nuts. Please, some designer out there, please tell me what this does aside from making things hard to read.
I hadn’t really thought about it that much, but I’ve basically abandoned wordpress. I don’t really know why. tumblr just feels a bit better designed. The dashboard page isn’t a clusterfuck. I don’t feel like it’s trying to make me pay for every little stupid feature. Is there a way to import posts from wordpress.com? […]
Another unexpected peril of having 16GB of RAM: Win7 decides to create an equivalently sized swap file, taking up ~20% of my expensive free SSD space. Sigh. You would think “automatically manage swap file size” would also mean “notice that I never go beyond 10G and keep a really small swap file.”
I was going to try to do some work tonight, but ended up messing around, so I’m deciding to put down something I’ve been thinking about for a while. All modern Apple computers ship with a small application called Photo Booth. On quick glance, there’s not much to it. It just lets you take photos […]