All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
Attributed to an IBM maintenance manual, ca 1925
Link: 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
The book itself is good and interesting and informative, but the UI is fascinating, too.
The browser page does not reload every time you turn the page, but the URL location changes! (And here’s how they do it, with history.pushState.)
My prediction: If Apple announces a pill that cures cancer, AIDs, herpes, and reveals a light bulb that lasts 99 years, while telling us the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s body, the Apple Haters will still call the announcement “disappointing,” and will be angry that Apple thinks that they cured cancer first (they’ll bring up an obscure scientist in New Guinea that maybe did it first).
Then they’ll insult the people who buy the cancer medicine for being Sheeple and complain about the fact that you have to swallow it in tablet form (why no syringe, Apple, it’s faster, OMG!). They’ll then declare that they will wait for the Android version in syringe form.
Poll Technica: what iTunes-y thing will Apple announce? (in a comment by PaulChapel)
Link: 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg
Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise!
I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world.
Link: Lights Out Management
So if Apple is recommending people migrate to Mac Pros or Mac Minis in place of the now-canceled XServe, are we going to see LOM (overview article linked in the title) implemented in one or both? That’d be pretty sexy shit if they did.
Link: Daring Fireball: Dish Executive Claims Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry
In short: in the face of popular new technology, he wants things to stay they were before that technology existed. Good luck with that strategy, TV executives.