February 2011
19 posts
Things You'd Tell Your 20-year-old Self →
jingc:
Someone wrote into Dear Sugar’s column to ask exactly that - what would you tell your younger self if you had the chance? What followed was a mix of advice, some that applied widely like:
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go....
“My strategy can be reduced to two rules: 1) Find a way to make it fun and 2) If...”
– Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
via Daring Fireball
The curious case of quantum mechanics →
A more general theory can usually be formulated in a logically complete manner, independently of a less general theory which forms a limiting case of it. Thus, relativistic mechanics can be constructed on the basis of its own fundamental principles, without any reference to Newtonian mechanics. It is in principle impossible, however, to formulate the basic concepts of quantum mechanics...
Interview: Marco Arment →
I’ve never been a note-taker. In high school, I was that smartass kid who never had any notebooks or anything on his desk in class. Just a blank desk to slowly fall asleep on. I thought I could just keep track of everything in my head, which is true in high school if you’re a smartass slacker, but doesn’t work very well after that.
If a task isn’t written down in a list or set to alert me...
A truly graphic adventure: the 25-year rise and... →
Great read.
Space Quest. Day of the Tentacle. Gabriel Knight. Monkey Island. To gamers of a certain age, the mere names evoke an entire world of gaming, now largely lost.
Graphic adventure games struggle to find success in today’s market, but once upon a time they topped sales charts year after year. The genre shot to the top of computer gaming in the latter half of the 1980s, then...
A quick question for airplanes - The Oatmeal →
How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you... →
That is, if you are less than three messages down into your inbox, you’ll be returned to the top when you get a new email. Any more than this and you’ll stay where you are. Send yourself an email and try it.
This is serious attention to detail. It’s not something people will show off to each other on the bus, or something that you can put on an advert or trumpet on a feature list. It just...