A side effect of having all data encrypted on the NAND is that secure erases happen much quicker. You can secure erase a SF drive in under 3 seconds as the controller just throws away the encryption key and generates a new one.
— From the Intel SSD 320 review by AnandTech. I like the evolution of SSDs.
Software today is not engineering. Building the Empire State Building with three thousand people in a year is engineering. Programming today is more like the Egyptians piling blocks on each other and hoping it doesn’t fall over.
— nevyn: Paraphrasing Dr Alan Kay in his talk “Programming and Scaling”
(Source: nevyn)
Within the next five years we’ll be in a situation where the fans in your system are more likely to fail than your hard drive, and if your drive does happen to fail it’ll tell you well in advance. How nice of it.
When the iPad came out – forget it. I did something I never thought I’d do. I actually waited in line for hours outside the Apple store. This product was the biggest consumer electronics home run I’d ever seen in my long career of covering the industry. Apple actually came out with a product that’s so good that it can’t even be copied or emulated to any significant degree. Even now, well over a year since it shipped, there is still no such thing as a “touch tablet market.” There is only the iPad, and a smattering of irrelevant failures.
— How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy
(Source: marco.org)
And therein lies the real problem of web 2.0 — whether it takes the form of SEO-driven “news” or crowd-sourced accommodation. To make money — real money — at this game you have to attract millions, or tens of millions, of users. And when you’re dealing with those kinds of numbers, it’s literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces of data. It’s ironic, but depressingly unsurprising, that web 2.0 is using faux socialization and democratization to create a world where everyone is reduced to a number on a spreadsheet.
— A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency - an article mostly about the recent Airbnb nightmare
(Source: marco.org)
Marissa is a 9 year old blogger. She enjoys singing, dancing and playing games on her iPhone and Nintendo DSi. She created this blog to share her reviews of all the games she plays. After looking at technology sites with game reviews, she realized adults were reviewing kid games. Some of the reviews of the games she enjoyed were unfair. That’s when she decided to write her own reviews, from a kid’s point of view.
The train ride between Stockholm and Linköping is quite pleasant.
The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.
— Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
(Source: twitter.com)
The idea that Apple customers are foolish and gullible is what some people have always thought about Apple. But it’s becoming an ever more untenable position as Apple’s customer base continues growing. It’s the Apple-haters who are beginning to look more and more like dogmatic cultists who have their heads in the sand.
— John Gruber in a response to “A Sobering Look At Apple”
