10 month ago
gleuschk : TripIt | Organize your travel - looks awesome; really slow today, must have gotten slashdotted or something
Cameron Moll : TripIt - I kid you not, when Suzanne and I were returning from SXSW I was telling her of an idea I've been mulling over for literally years with the amount of traveling I've done. The premise was simple: An app that could centralize all my travel plans (hotel, air
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : Strategy Letter VI - Joel on Software - Good article on where Joel sees web development going -- some kind of higher-level language that compiles down to Javascript, HTML, and whatever else runs in browsers. I think there needs to be "Assembler programmers don’t have groupies." t-shirts. #
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16 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve: "A box that many people can't figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design."
Rod Begbie : Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve - Joel on Software - As someone who installed Vista on a PC in January, and regretted it for months, I echo Joel Spolsky's summation: "I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary op #
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17 month ago
nelson : Joel hates blog comments - I mostly agree with what he's saying
plasticbag : Joel Spolsky talks about the lack of value that anonymous comments (or maybe comments in general) offer the blogger - Allowing people to post without registering has been considered insane for online communities for a decade at least, and I've argued that comments are unnecessary because people can post on their own sites. But I'm not sure I'd go as far as Joel...
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software: Choices = Headaches - Good article by Joel -- Why *does* the Vista shutdown menu require *seven* options? #
gleuschk : Choices = Headaches - reminds me of trying to explain to my grandmother why in order to turn the computer off, she had to hit "Start"
Cameron Moll : Choices = Headaches - Choices = Headaches. Joel Spolsky, former Microsoft program manager, couldn't have penned a better title for this article, in which he explores the inexhaustible (and ridiculous) options in Windows Vista for leaving your computer: Switch User, Log Off, Lo
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26 month ago
43folders : Fire And Motion - Joel on Software - "...the principle of Fire and Motion is how you get things done in life. You have to move forward a little bit, every day."
Rod Begbie : Fire And Motion - Joel on Software - Classic Joel article from 2002. I had to go and reread this, because I've been stuck in a rut of unproductivity for the last couple of days. Good reminder that it happens to everyone. #
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27 month ago
wearehugh : Joel on Software
Rod Begbie : Joel on Software: Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint! - Joel rips into the craptacular experience of the new Sprint phone. I bet the PR bod who figured sending free phones to bloggers was a great idea is regretting it. #
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