webwielder

Nerds have actually won. Comic book and reddit culture is completely mainstream, bordering on oversaturation. Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere.

Now that they're the popular ones, I imagine many nerds find the taste of victory to be surprisingly bitter. Raging against the jock machine is a lot more fun than being the machine.

I love the Mac App Store. No worrying about licenses, zip files, DMGs, or updates. The Featured tab always highlights some cool app I wasn't aware of. Aside from these kinds of developer headaches, I think it's a huge win for the platform.

That's in part 2, linked at the end of the article.

Everything happens for a raisin.

I know it's cliche to say, but my god, where did the $141 million go?

After Dark was cool, but my heart will always belong to Underware: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/underware

I think they're actually talking about copyright. Apple famously lost a big copyright infringement "look and feel" case against Microsoft, partially on the grounds that software can't be copyrighted. This was one of the catalysts for the switch to patents as a means of defending software novelty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer%2C_Inc._v._Micro....

Whenever I read about how hard it was to do things in the past — program, edit movies, typeset books, make butter — I'm amazed they even bothered! What tasks that we do today will seem shockingly tedious and hard in a few decades? Well, programming still kind of sucks...

I used to boycott TurboTax because of this. But then I realized that Intuit is just playing the game. Why wouldn't they do everything they can to sustain their business (well, a sense of moral decency, I guess, but that's a big ask)?

The real root of the problem is of course our broken political process.

Painful to see every culture slowly succumb to cubicles and factories. Eagle and huntress, fly free.

"Web apps are the future" is the new "This is the year of Linux on the desktop".

Sadly, the needless deaths of 500,000 Iraqis just isn't as emotionally compelling to people as gay marriage.

Nature's own artificial intelligence.

In reviewing Apple's contributions to computing, people tend to overlook the PowerBook, presumably because the first models were released during Jobs's absence. But it really was revolutionary, and turned the hulking ergonomic nightmares of the 80s into pretty much the form we have today. As a bonus, Apple also pioneered the use of the trackpad a few years later.

During the iPhone presentation, Jobs actually mentions the importance of the PowerBook in Apple's history. I always got a kick out of Jobs praising stuff from the Sculley era like the PowerBook and QuickTime, as it signaled that he recognized that Apple was bigger than him, and because Apple simply doesn't get enough credit for some of the stuff they did the "dark days".

Gamification is clearly the future of banking.

If humans are good at anything, it's litter.

The "premium" segment is growing in the global markets.

It's a shame that the one time event of going public dooms a company for perpetuity to being subject to the unreasonable demands of shareholders, so often ironically resulting in the downfall of the very value that was supposed to rise as a result of said demands.

Can someone explain to me Intel's continued fascination with being a consumer company? From constant B2C advertising to their TV and wearable endeavors, they seem to be fixated on being something they're not. Is it corporate vanity? Is there a strategic motivation? If so, have any of their consumer endeavors ever actually borne fruit? I guess it's reminiscent of Microsoft, who don't seem to understand that Windows was not successful because consumers liked it, but because businesses bought it.

Speaking of the first iPhone and the first Android phones in the same breath is very insulting to the iPhone.

Has there ever been a piece of software more riddled with security holes than Flash? The Java runtime? Windows XP?

If you're going to inexplicably speak directly to the author, and then do so by their first name, at least get the spelling right.

Post itself rendered nonsensical by title change.

Ah, very clever, omitting the question mark at the end of the title, thereby avoiding the imperatives of Betteridge's Law by technicality.

EDIT: And I see the actual article title got around the law in a different way, by asking the question such that the answer "No" is nonsensical! Still, I like the sound of that exchange:

Writer: What if Apple bought Tesla? Me: NO

I've heard that touch screens are becoming pretty popular.

The old adage always holds true: if the people buying the product aren't the people using it, the product will suck.

It's OK to like multiple things.

For me, Unibox is incredible. Hard to believe I ever used email any other way.

That's the second Infini-D reference I've heard in the past couple of months after not hearing it mentioned once in the past 10 years. Warm fuzzies.

If there's a pill that allows me to learn stuff as readily as a child, perfect pitch is kinda low on my list of to-do's.