July 2009
28 posts
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“Your awesomeness is not self-evident.”
– Andy Lester, Effective Job Interviewing From Both Sides of the Desk
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“If you’re anything like me, you spend about 87 percent of your mental life...”
– Tim Kreider, Isn’t It Outrageous? [via Jimmy on Facebook]
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“Curiously, this freely chosen aspect of ourselves is what other people remember...”
– Kevin Kelly, Chosen, Inevitable, and Contingent
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“Intelligence: an innate cognitive ability that powers learning. Perfect? No. But...”
– Christopher J. Ferguson, Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius
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“This is the face of cyberwar: easily preventable attacks that, even when they...”
– Bruce Schneier, North Korean Cyberattacks
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“When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a...”
– Paul Graham, Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule [via Scott on Facebook]
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“The past practice of parceling out the public domain to private parties is...”
– Carl Malamud
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“Leaders first conform, then only later, when trust has been gained, can they be...”
– Jeremy Dean, Social Psychology of Groups
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Think you have food allergies? Think again
LA Times: “‘Every study has shown that the perception of having a food allergy is more often wrong than right,’ says Robert Wood, a pediatric allergist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. ‘Only about 25% of people who think they have a food allergy will actually have one.’” [via]
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“One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.”
– Milton Glaser, Ten Things I Have Learned [via]
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Cannot Run App in Development Due to Provisioning...
I was getting an error during development stating that I could not run my app on my iPhone because the executable “doesn’t have the provisioning profile with which the application was signed. Please add the provisioning profile via the Organizer or check the ‘Code Signing Identity’ build setting.”
I found this blog entry detailing a solution to the problem, but that did...
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“The iPod/iTunes ecosystem is testament to the fact that people are willing to...”
– Richard Ziade, Praying To The Wrong God [via]
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“A city that opens up its data but expects that people building on that data...”
– John Geraci, Open Gov Is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue
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WatchSlightly faster than realtime video of crowds walking down 42nd Street attempt to cross 9th Avenue. More…
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Search for CC, GNUFDL, and Public Domain Images... →
“This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.”
Google...
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“The roots of interpersonal conflict are often an excessive concern for oneself,...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life, chapter 7, “Changing the Patterns of Life”
“…good programmers are the laziest bunch out there. They will do 10x more...”
– Madhan Kanagavel, 10 Ways to be a Bad Programmer
Exit Strategy NYC App →
“Ever wish you knew exactly where to stand on the subway to arrive at your exit? Front? Back? Middle?” Pre-walking subway app. [via]
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“If network policy breaches aren’t followed up with safe solutions to...”
– Cory Doctorow, Like teenagers, computers are built to hook up
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A Pound of Cure →
Andy Kessler: “In those medical records lie the ugly truth about the business of medicine: sickness is profitable. The greater the number of treatments, procedures, and hospital stays, the larger the profit. There is little incentive for doctors and hospitals to identify or reduce wasteful spending in medicine.” [via, via]
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“A society built on fear serves its masters; a society built on trust serves its...”
– Mark Pesce, quoting something heard at the PdF ’09 Conference [via]
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“If a person inside an industry needs to frequently explain why it’s not dead,...”
– Michael Nielsen, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
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How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think? →
Lera Boroditsky: “For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak...