February 2012
16 posts
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“Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.
However, to make...”
– Dave Winner
Instead of doing a hackathon, do a regularly scheduled Code Jam. Get a bunch of developers together to show each other what new idea they have and for that day do something on that new idea in 24 hour. For a hackathon, this stop when the event stop. With a Code Jam, get together again...
Handling Permission
Dailysocial brought this up, whether Android user should be concerned about contact list abuse. The problem with asking permission first when installing the apps, like Android did, is that most people will just plainly ignore the written text and install the apps anyway. Just like nobody ever read a text put into Setup Wizard on Windows.
The correct way, I think, to handle permission is to asked...
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“Apapun persepsi kita atas cinta, tak ada salahnya bersiap untuk senantiasa...”
– Dee Idea: Cinta Tak Bertuan
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On Management
What Joel Spolsky wrote on http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html I think is applicable to all company. The point that needed to be paid attention is
Hire Smart People.
Give the smart people that you hire real authority.
Management is there to help smart people do their job, not preventing them from doing it.
You’re not Steve Jobs, so stop...
“We mistake dumb luck for a machine that produces success. We rely on induction...”
– Alex Payne — On Business Madness
I’m not a business person too, but all in all, working harder and smarter from everyone else always brings the best result.
January 2012
11 posts
Foxconn's workers in context →
aulia-m:
The working conditions at Foxconn has been the subject of much discussion and outrage over the last few days following the New York Times exposé. Apple has since bore the majority, if not the full, brunt of the criticisms for allowing what looks to be a sweatshop full of suicides with workers earning very little while making iProducts despite other consumer electronics companies also...
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Ultrabook Rules
∞ Ultrabook Rules:
I actually wonder when the last time a computer manufacturer, not named Apple, gave a damn about making a computer that made lives easier. Think about it: they don’t make the software, just the hardware — and yet that’s the part that seems like utter crap.
To put it another way: if Apple hadn’t made version 2 of the MacBook Air a wild success, would any other PC...
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“Also worth noting that in music, Apple didn’t kill the incumbents. The major...”
– Daring Fireball
I love this footnote from John Gruber, digital revolution is inevitable. “Peole in hell want ice water — that doesn’t mean they can get it”
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“Blanket marketing is easy because all it takes is money — you design a flyer and...”
– Shawn Blanc
A little note to those that works in marketing.
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
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Rules of a Creator's Life
Do more than what you’re told to do
Try new things
Teach others about what you know
Make work into play
Take breaks
Work when others are resting
Always be creating
Make your own inspiration
Love what you do, or leave
(via Creative Something)
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December 2011
18 posts
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Reminder to Myself
Believe in your fucking self.
Stay up all fucking night.
Work outside of your fucking habits.
Know when to fucking speak up.
Fucking collaborate.
Don’t fucking procrastinate.
Get over your fucking self.
Keep fucking learning.
Form follows fucking function.
A computer is Lite-Brite for bad fucking ideas.
Find fucking inspiration everywhere.
Fucking network.
Educate your fucking...
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“Sit down and look at Fstop, aperture, ISO, and all of those kinds of things as...”
– The Words (aka: Dear. Mrs. Senderoff) @ ABOUT RC
The hardest thing of all is finding yourself, what you want to do with your life, what you want to write, what pictures you want to take.
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“Living inside a comfort zone is dangerous, and turns you into an uninteresting...”
– maxvoltar - Give Me Something To Read
Hurry, leave your comfort zone! Run, don’t walk!
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“The original iPad is nearly two years old, runs iOS 5 well, and will probably...”
– Samsung’s Lack of ICS Updates is an Android Problem – Marco.org
Hence the difference between the company that cares about customer and not. One company is in it for the long term, the other just want to sell you hardware.
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“How pathetic is RIM?
Two years ago, the Blackberry accounted for almost 50...”
– http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/mobile-computing-devices/rip-rim-141656
Joseph Stiglitz: “A Banking System is Supposed to... →
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“Apple’s customers often get accused of unconditional devotion to the company’s...”
– Marco.org
Bingo, Marco nails it! My first Apple product is late 2007 MacBook black. I’ve never even look at another laptop ever since. After that comes the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iMac. Previously I’m a ThinkPad user, have been a hardcore PC guy ever since MS DOS 6.2, imagine that....
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Telco ❤ Android
A few reasons why Android is Telecommunication Operators true love
It doesn’t require revenue share per subscriber like Blackberry services.
Lots of variations to target multiple market segments.
Operators can custom bundle applications (junkware) fairly easily.
Reason 1 & 2 is enough to make it a true love for operators.
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Dialog Cerdas
@nukman : #fyi sebaliknya, teori kuantum (berlaku di subatomik) menganggap alam semesta punya sejarah tak terhingga
@kuncoro : @nukman Tak selalu, kerna ia tak dapat mendedah waktu di bawah skala Planck juga.
@nukman : @kuncoro iya, singularitas yg membingungkan
@kuncoro : @nukman Ia suka becanda. Ekstrim waktu ditutupi waktu Planck. Ekstrim renik ditutupi Heisenberg. Ekstrim massa diselubungi event horizon.
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“A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian...”
– Interesting fact! Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
“Negara, dengan legitimasi keberadaan berupa warga dan wilayah, mewujud karena...”
– Rony’s Blog » Tentang Sebuah Hak yang Tak Terpenuhi
siapa kita menjadi jaksa atas sesama, menjadi hakim yang menghakimi padahal yang Maha Hakim pun Maha Pengampun
November 2011
8 posts
“It took just 5 weeks. The only one ahead of it? The iPhone 4.
By the way,...”
– parislemon: iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone on Flickr
m.e.driscoll: data utopian: what to feed the... →
medriscoll:
One of the holy grails of machine learning is the creation of a system that can “read the web” and learn from it, much the same way that Isaac Newton picked up Euclid’s Elements in a Cambridge bookshop and taught himself geometry.
Imagine a mythical beast that could speed-read one-hundred…
But I wonder if some of our challenges in creating this mythical learning machine lie...
Why Startup Hubs Work →
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The Cruelest Show on Earth | Mother Jones →
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