Posts tagged with Rant
App Permanence is Vastly Overstated
Mobile apps are far from perfect. In fact, it's remarkable how popular and ubiquitous they are on mobile devices, despite being difficult to discover, closed off (both from each other but also across mobile platforms), and harder to…
The Right and the Wrong Kind of Recruiters
Maybe it's hiring season, but I had a particularly bad day today fending off tech recruiters. I count: * 4 LinkedIn requests * 2 random emails[1] * 2 3 unsolicited cold calls Sadly, the increasing volume of spam no longer…
Romantizing the Trivial
Everybody loves a good Apple rumor. It seems like for the past few years, predicting what kind of hardware and software big companies will show off is a sport in and of itself, and the industry hypes itself to a…
The Hubris of Front-End Developers
A colleague pointed me to an interesting article by a senior Yahoo front-end engineer. It goes through what companies need to do to hire "great FE engineers", that A developers are attracted by other A players but more…
Fragments of the Web
With Apple's introduction of the Retina-display-equipped Macbook, we're starting to enter a transitional period in display resolutions. As usual, Apple's leading the charge while keeping things simple via pixel doubling, but much like Android…
Social Gaming is About Business
It's now cliché to claim that gamification permeate all aspects of life; the talk of 2010 and 2011 was that everything seemed to be heading towards cheap, immediate-reward schemes with the subtlety of slot machines. If it can…
