January 2012
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“Most people are willing to trade fidelity for utility
I’ll forgo utility...”
– dragonI
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Chinese Readers on the ‘iEconomy’ →
A couple of responses to NYTime articles, How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work and In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.
There are two stories about Apple: one is about its brilliant business performance, and the other is about the blood and sweat behind Apple miracles. I strongly recommend that all Apple fans read this. Corporations should bear social responsibilities, and customers...
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Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad →
Former Apple and Foxconn executives speak up about the unspoken working conditions and Apple’s thirst for profits.
Apple earned a record net profit of $13.06 billion on revenue of $46.33 billion during the 1st quarter. Apple’s gross margin for the quarter was 44.7%. Apple sold 37 million iPhones and 15 million iPads.
How much did their suppliers make? Not enough!
“We’ve known about labor...
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The Top 12 JavaScript MVC Frameworks Reviewed →
Can’t remember the pros and cons of all those frameworks like Spine, Sammy, Sproutcore, Backbone, and the rest? Gordon L. Hempton runs through 12 of the most popular, lists their pros and cons, and picks Ember.js as his ultimate winner
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jQuery code assist in Eclipse 3.7 →
Works for me ;)
This is something I have wanted for ages. jQuery code assist AKA code completion AKA autocomplete AKA intellisense, in my favourite IDE Eclipse.
Install Aptana 3 plugin: go Help > Install New Software, and use this URL: http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install
Enable jQuery bundle: make sure you are using the Aptana (“Web”) perspective and go Commands...
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Watch
The guide starts off when Larry Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1995, and chronicles all of the major milestones the company hit up until the end of last year. Given all of Google’s latest efforts in social, it looks like Online PhD will have a huge task in updating this at the end of 2012.
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Tokyo 'has 70% chance of powerful earthquake... →
The earthquake research institute at Tokyo University said that in the worst case, a quake of magnitude 7 would hit the southern part of metropolitan Tokyo by 2016, while the chances of a similar disaster occurring within 30 years are as high as 98%.
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How The Biggest Solar Storm Since 2005 Is Going to... →
There’s a solar Coronal Mass Ejection travelling towards us at 1,400 miles per second, the largest solar storm since 2005. It will hit Earth around 9am Eastern Time, causing fluctuations on the power grid and disruptions to the Global Positioning System.
Don’t worry, you won’t die.
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How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work →
My attempt at categorizing the key points.
It’s about the money!
“Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.
2011, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.
“We sell iPhones in over a hundred countries,” a current Apple executive said. “We don’t have an obligation to...
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“We sell iPhones in over a hundred countries,” a current Apple executive said....”
– How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, NYTimes
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Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs →
It’s not fair to say that paper book technology is a completely free and open paradise of availability and access. There are competing distributors, selections limited by your local bookstore or library, and out-of-print editions. Yet these issues have had many hundreds of years to sort themselves out and the systems for managing them are established.
Ebooks, by contrast, come in an array...
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Sheena Iyengar demonstrates how businesses (and others) can improve the experience of choosing.
Horizontal and vertical product proliferation can get out of hand. Cut the number of products and watch your sales increase and costs decrease. Fact, after P&G cut the number of Head & Shoulders products from 26 to 15, their sales increased by 10%
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SOPA/PIPA Blackout →
A gallery of the SOPA/PIPA blackout sites.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama... →
Corporations donate for a reason! Hollywood Studio FAIL
The moguls are reminding Obama et al that, in the words of one studio chief, “God knows how much money we’ve given to Obama and the Democrats and yet they’re not supporting our interests. There’s been no greater supporters of him than we’ve been from the first day and the first fundraisers continuing until he was elected. We all were...
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The secrets Apple keeps →
Adam Lashinsky’s new book, “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works”, details how Apple goes about maintaining its secrecy and it’s culture. In short, working at Apple is like working at the CIA except without the fear of the death penalty!
For new recruits, keeping secrets begins even before they learn which building...
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'Miracle Tree' Substance Produces Clean Drinking... →
A natural substance obtained from seeds of the “miracle tree” could purify and clarify water inexpensively and sustainably in the developing world, where more than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, scientists report. Research on the potential of a sustainable water-treatment process requiring only tree seeds and sand appears in ACS’ journal Langmuir.
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JavaScript Performance →
The presentation starts by suggesting that JavaScript is typically the #1 place to look for making a website faster. My anecdotal experience supports this hypothesis, but I wanted to try to do some quantitative verification. As often happens, I turned to WebPagetest.
I wanted to test the Alexa Top 100 URLs with and without JavaScript. To load these sites withOUT JavaScript I used WebPagetest’s...
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Apple Releases List Of Its Suppliers, Discloses... →
Some scary numbers!
Apple suppliers were in compliance with the max 60-hour work week 38% of the time
93 facilities had records showing that over 50% of their workers had exceeded a 60-hour week (in at least 1 week of the 12-week sample period)
108 of the 229 companies didn’t pay proper overtime as required by law
AT 90 facilities, over half the records showed that employees had worked more...
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Six Gestalt Principles In Web Design →
The proximity principle
The common fate principle
The similarity principle
The closure principle
The symmetry principle
The figure ground principle
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JavaScript Pattern Collection →
Tons of goodies! Clone and fork on GitHub
A JavaScript pattern and antipattern code collection that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, design patterns, general patterns, literals and constructor patterns (upcoming), object creation patterns (upcoming), code reuse patterns (upcoming), DOM and browser patterns (upcoming).
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Android Design →
Official Android Design Guide