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John Siracusa in the 446th episode of ATP<\/a> talks about how kids become programmers and how it didn’t work with his kids, starting at 40:36<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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Accidental Tech Podcast 446: Dead From Fraud<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With my kids, I had no success getting them to want to learn to program at any age. I didn’t really push it that hard, but I was putting it in front of them, see if they are into it, see if it would grab them. And it never got hooked. And we all — all three of us — know what it means to get hooked on programming. It’s one of those things that just happens, right? You can see when programming gets its claws into somebody. And you know, it’s not subtle. You’ll find yourself just sucked in and just constantly working on this program — we all experienced it. That’s how we became who we are. But when that doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "John Siracusa in the 446th episode of ATP talks about how kids become programmers and how it didn’t work with his kids, starting at 40", "date_published": "2023-10-18T23:03:54+03:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-18T23:03:45+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:03:54 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "366", "_rss_enclosures": [ { "url": "https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/atpfm\/atp446.mp3", "type": "audio\/mpeg", "length": "" } ], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [ "jquery\/jquery.js", "jouele\/jouele.css", "jouele\/jouele.js" ], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "362", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/ui-stability\/", "title": "Marco Arment on UI stability", "content_html": "

In ATP Episode 439<\/a> Marco Arment had a good speech on UI stability, I even took time to write it down. It starts at 35:07:<\/p>\n

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UIs so often lack stability. It is such a critical quality. You want the UI to be stable.<\/p>\n

Not every surface should be “live”... If you try to select some text on a website with a mouse on a desktop, you don’t want every single thing that you can click on or accidentally brush against with your finger on a phone to be something that is live, that does something. You want stability, you want things to feel solid, and predictable, and forgiving. And not being so susceptible to things like accidental input or imprecision in input... People are doing things unintentionally.<\/p>\n

You also don’t want the UI to be moving around when people are trying to use it. And I feel like a lot of the current Mac design language these days, where everything is being hidden behind hover states and then things animate somewhere out of the way and change where they are... this is all violations of UI stability. It makes everything a hot zone or a live zone. And things are jumping around, and it’s disorienting, and it’s inefficient, and it’s unintuitive as well, and undiscoverable and all sorts of other problems.<\/p>\n

Anything you can do to make a UI more stable in a sense that things don’t move around too much, there aren’t too many different modes where things come in and out or slide around, or pop in, or pop out, that makes it easier and better and more calm to use for more people. And it’s a better design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "In ATP Episode 439 Marco Arment had a good speech on UI stability, I even took time to write it down", "date_published": "2023-08-08T22:33:53+03:00", "date_modified": "2023-08-08T22:32:10+03:00", "tags": [ "interface", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:33:53 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "362", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "332", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/quoted-links\/", "title": "The best way to make a text in quotes into a link", "content_html": "

Sometimes you may need to make a text in quotes into a link:<\/p>\n

\n\"Quoted\n<\/div>\n

Many designers notice that underlined quote marks look bad, so they exclude them from the link:<\/p>\n

\n\"Correctly\n<\/div>\n

However, meaning-wise and in terms of Fitts’s law, the quote marks should be included in the link: they are related in meaning to the text inside them, not outside them, and it’s easier to click a larger link.<\/p>\n

So the best way to make a text in quotes into a link is to make the whole thing a link while underlining only the text:<\/p>\n

\n\"Correctly\n<\/div>\n", "summary": "Sometimes you may need to make a text in quotes into a link", "date_published": "2022-10-03T19:58:33+03:00", "date_modified": "2022-10-03T19:57:45+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes", "typography" ], "image": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/quoted-link-bad-en@2x.png", "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:58:33 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "332", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [ "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/quoted-link-bad-en@2x.png", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/quoted-link-ok-en@2x.png", "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/pictures\/quoted-link-good-en@2x.png" ] } }, { "id": "314", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/ben-thompson-on-apple-versus-amazon\/", "title": "Ben Thompson on Apple versus Amazon", "content_html": "

Nice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I mean it when I say these companies are the complete opposite: Apple sells products it makes; Amazon sells products made by anyone and everyone. Apple brags about focus; Amazon calls itself “The Everything Store”. Apple is a product company that struggles at services; Amazon is a services company that struggles at product. Apple has the highest margins and profits in the world; Amazon brags that other’s margin is their opportunity, and until recently, barely registered any profits at all. And, underlying all of this, Apple is an extreme example of a functional organization, and Amazon an extreme example of a divisional one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "Nice", "date_published": "2018-05-16T11:07:53+03:00", "date_modified": "2018-05-16T11:07:48+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 16 May 2018 11:07:53 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "314", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "262", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/mimic-client-feedback\/", "title": "Mimic 2.0: The client’s feedback", "content_html": "

I’ve recently designed the new user interface for Mimic<\/a>, a web developer tool for mocking server responses in a browser. Ilya Gelman, one of the Mimic’s developers, comments on working with me:<\/p>\n

\n

Ilya is of that rare kind of designers that seek to find solutions to problems instead of matching colors and shadows. He asks the right questions, concentrates on important things and understands that real products aren’t just beautiful pictures on dribble. He helped us redefine our tool to make it simpler to use and easier to understand.<\/p>\n

Working with local Israeli designers, we usually communicated by real-time channels like Slack, WhatsApp or phone. It was a bit different with Ilya because we had to communicate mainly via email and had to schedule our calls ahead of time. Part of this was the difference in time zones and part of it was Ilya’s principle of managing his own time, which I can fully understand and respect. All in all we never had an issue of lack of communication and everything was always delivered on time.<\/p>\n

What I liked about Ilya the most is that he was able to explain the reasoning behind his design decisions, and that he knew how to work together with us to get our tool released on time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "I’ve recently designed the new user interface for Mimic, a web developer tool for mocking server responses in a browser", "date_published": "2017-04-01T20:42:30+03:00", "date_modified": "2017-04-01T20:42:28+03:00", "tags": [ "feedback", "projects", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sat, 01 Apr 2017 20:42:30 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "262", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "212", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/jony-ive-on-blunt-criticism\/", "title": "Jony Ive on blunt criticism", "content_html": "

I am listening to an audiobook on Steve Jobs<\/a>. A quote about blunt criticism:<\/p>\n

\n

That’s why “That’s shit!” was as common response from Steve as a pointed question or a thoughtful discussion. He wanted smart answers and he didn’t want to waste time on niceties when it was simpler to be clear, no matter how critical his response.<\/p>\n

“The reason you sugarcoat things is that you don’t want anyone to think you are an asshole. So, that’s vanity”, explains Jony Ive […] “As a design chief, I was on a receiving end of Steve’s blunt criticisms as much as anyone”. Whenever he felt abused he would tell himself that someone who sugarcoats his true opinions might not really even be all that concerned about the other person’s feelings, he just doesn’t want to appear to be a jerk. But if he really cared about the work, he would be less vain and would talk directly about the work.<\/p>\n

That’s the way Steve was. That’s why he’d say “That’s shit!”, but then the next day or the next after he also would just as likely come back saying, “Jony, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you’ve showed me, and I think it’s very interesting after all. Let’s talk about it some more”.<\/p>\n

Steve put it this way: “You hire people who are better than you are at certain things and then make sure they know that they need to tell you when you’re wrong”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "I am listening to an audiobook on Steve Jobs. A quote about blunt criticism", "date_published": "2015-08-19T20:01:44+03:00", "date_modified": "2015-08-19T20:01:16+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "books", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:01:44 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "212", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "200", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/john-siracusa-on-the-new-macbook\/", "title": "John Siracusa on the new MacBook", "content_html": "

In ATP episode 108<\/a>, John Siracusa is on fire regarding the new MacBook’s layered battery.<\/p>\n

Listen from 47:30 to 48:35:<\/p>\n

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You know what else would give you more room for battery, Phil?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

You know what else would give you more room for battery, Phil? Stop tapering the damn thing! It’s barely tapered as it is, you’re just torturing yourself. It’s barely a wedge, all you are doing is making your own life worse. If you made this thing the same thickness from front to back, think of how much more battery... it’s not like an insignificant amount of battery. The batteries inside of this are so slim and so skinny and so tiny, that not tapering it could give you like 30-40% more battery!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "In ATP episode 108, John Siracusa is on fire regarding the new MacBook’s layered battery", "date_published": "2015-03-16T15:39:25+03:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-18T23:03:27+03:00", "tags": [ "ATP", "podcasts", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:39:25 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "200", "_rss_enclosures": [ { "url": "http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/atpfm\/atp108.mp3?download=true", "type": "audio\/mpeg", "length": "" } ], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [ "jquery\/jquery.js", "jouele\/jouele.css", "jouele\/jouele.js" ], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "181", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/john-gruber-compares-iphone-and-apple-watch-introductions\/", "title": "John Gruber compares iPhone and Apple Watch introductions", "content_html": "

John Gruber compares iPhone and Apple Watch introductions in Episode 14 of Electric Shadow podcast<\/a> (starting at around 1h 24m mark):<\/p>\n

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I think that the best was the 2007 Macworld expo keynote introducing the iPhone. Let’s see where they go with the watch, but I think even in the most optimistic scenario the watch doesn’t change everything the way the iPhone did.<\/p>\n

The iPhone was pulled out of thin air. I think to this day — now we are 7,5 years after that — it was absolutely five years ahead of its time, maybe more. I think maybe if Apple had never released it, the phones we would have been using in 2012, five years later still wouldn’t have been like that. It was impossible. It really is just what it seemed like.<\/p>\n

I don’t think they needed a good event, I think they could have had a shitty event to announce it, and if they released the exact same phone seven months later, it would have been fine. It would eventually, with the years, work out.<\/p>\n

The advantage of having a perfect event to announce it though was that for the people who opened their minds and just paid attention to it, it gave us a head start as to just what it was that we’ve seen. Half of the people who were paying attention came out that event understanding: Wow. This is amazing. The entire tech world has just changed. And then the other half were, like, this is ridiculous, the thing doesn’t even have a keyboard, no one’s gonna buy it. But if you paid attention, the fact that the event was so perfect, it gave you the context to understand something without ever actually even getting to use the device.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Agreed.<\/p>\n", "summary": "John Gruber compares iPhone and Apple Watch introductions in Episode 14 of Electric Shadow podcast (starting at around 1h 24m mark...", "date_published": "2014-09-21T20:54:29+03:00", "date_modified": "2014-09-22T00:21:38+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple Watch", "Gruber", "iPhone", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:54:29 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "181", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "163", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/guy-english-on-ux\/", "title": "Guy English on UX", "content_html": "

Guy English in Debug 37<\/a> on the term “user experience”:<\/p>\n

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So user experience is abbreviated to UX. Which is just like... Fuck you, you cannot even abbreviate this correctly?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The discussion starts at 1:35:45 when Guy says he hates the term:<\/p>\n

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Debug 37: Simmons, Wiskus, Gruber, and Vesper Sync<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I’m totally with Guy on this.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Guy English in Debug 37 on the term “user experience”", "date_published": "2014-06-11T22:38:37+03:00", "date_modified": "2014-06-11T22:38:18+03:00", "tags": [ "interface", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:38:37 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "163", "_rss_enclosures": [ { "url": "http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/zenandtech\/debug37.mp3", "type": "audio\/mpeg", "length": "" } ], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [ "jquery\/jquery.js", "jouele\/jouele.css", "jouele\/jouele.js" ], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "149", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/francesco-franchi-on-form-and-substance\/", "title": "Francesco Franchi on form and substance", "content_html": "

Francesco Franchi, in Designing News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

It is therefore necessary to rediscover graphics and typography as keys to journalistic expression. Not just as embellishment or aesthetics, reflecting the old Aristotelian view of form and substance as separate and opposed, but as a way of making form itself into substance. The distinction between form and content is therefore fictitious, and exists only when it refers to a division of tasks and competences (hence the need for effective forms of communication within editorial offices).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "Francesco Franchi, in Designing News", "date_published": "2014-03-27T14:17:55+03:00", "date_modified": "2014-03-27T14:17:08+03:00", "tags": [ "design", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:17:55 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "149", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "142", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/on-jordan-prices-experience-working-at-apple\/", "title": "On Jordan Price’s experience working at Apple", "content_html": "

Jordan Price in I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Then at lunch time I wiped the iPad data clean, put the files I had been working on neatly on the server, left all their belongings on my desk, and I got in my car and drove home. I left a message for my boss and told him he’s the worst boss I had ever encountered in my entire professional career...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so what you are saying is that all the time you have been working at Apple you have not tried to solve the problems you had, prefering to ignore them instead. And when it got unbearable, you just left, betraying your employer and your recruiter.<\/p>\n

And then you are saying that you are looking for a new job. Oops.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Jordan Price in I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much", "date_published": "2014-02-13T17:47:31+03:00", "date_modified": "2014-02-13T17:47:28+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "life", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:47:31 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "142", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "81", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/systematic-destruction-of-twitter\/", "title": "Systematic Destruction of Twitter", "content_html": "

Ben Brooks writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Twitter is pivoting from a communication tool that regimes sought to shut down in times of revolt, to a tool that in those same times of revolt regimes will embrace and pay to use Twitter to spread propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "Ben Brooks writes", "date_published": "2012-11-28T00:21:51+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-11-28T00:21:40+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:21:51 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "81", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "68", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/button-text-in-mountain-lion\/", "title": "Button text in Mountain Lion", "content_html": "

John Siracusa in the review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Creating a new document and then immediately closing without saving now shows a dialog box whose far-left button is labeled “Delete” rather than the milder “Don’t Save”. The same button in the dialog that appears after selecting the “Duplicate…” command and then immediately closing the duplicate window is now labeled “Delete Copy” instead of “Don’t Save”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nice touch.<\/p>\n", "summary": "John Siracusa in the review", "date_published": "2012-07-25T23:09:30+03:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-18T23:03:02+03:00", "tags": [ "interface", "Mac", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:09:30 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "68", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "64", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/gruber-and-siegler-tts-4\/", "title": "Gruber and Siegler in The Talk Show #4", "content_html": "

In The Talk Show #4<\/a> John Gruber is joined by MG Siegler. What a company! It was recorded before WWDC, and they were discussing all sorts of rumors, it was quite entertaining.<\/p>\n

Then there was an interesting take on why one should care even about the small details which “regular” people won’t notice. Gruber (48:46...):<\/p>\n

\n

Maybe people don’t buy Newsweek and think, my god this thing is very finely printed. You may not think it, but you notice it. And that’s just like the way Apple stuff is all the way. Where people don’t buy, well, normal people don’t buy the iPhone and think about how nice the seams are between the steel antenna and the glass in front. You may not think about it, but you appreciate it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But the most amusing part was on Google. Staring with Apple’s move to in-house maps and a pathetic Google’s pre-WWDC event (56:54...) and ending with an analogy with Microsoft (1:21:20...). Gruber:<\/p>\n

\n

Google is to me the new Microsoft, where they are the ones sticking their fingers in everybody else’s pies, and not making any friends, and spoiling the friends that they had... How far this industry can go in five years: when the iPhone was introduced there’s Eric Smidt invited up on stage backslapping with Steve Jobs talking about what great almost sibling companies Google and Apple are... And now look where they are. The way I see it is, Google’s really made enemies of everybody...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Siegler:<\/p>\n

\n

And it’s one of those things like we were talking about earlier, where, you know, you talk to them, and they don’t seem to be aware of this. Even though it’s not like a big secret, and anyone can see it...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gruber:<\/p>\n

\n

It does seem like they are oblivious about it, and that’s to me is a difference from when Microsoft was the enemy of everybody in the Walley, is that Microsoft seemed very self-aware of their role... But Google seems to think that they are still everybody’s friend and everybody else kind of hates them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "In The Talk Show #4 John Gruber is joined by MG Siegler. What a company! It was recorded before WWDC, and they were discussing all sorts of rumors, it was quite entertaining", "date_published": "2012-06-18T23:41:14+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-06-18T23:41:03+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "Gruber", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:41:14 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "64", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "62", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/marco-arment-on-apple-software-quality\/", "title": "Marco Arment on Apple’s software quality", "content_html": "

Marco Arment on Apple’s software quality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The list of exceptions to “It just works” is growing quickly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, it’s true. Lion is way more buggy then Leopard used to be, and iCloud is just painfully unreliable.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Marco Arment on Apple’s software quality", "date_published": "2012-06-03T23:26:36+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-06-03T23:26:20+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:26:36 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "62", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "61", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/all\/wordpress-and-caching\/", "title": "WordPress and caching", "content_html": "

Ben Brooks writes<\/a> about WordPress plugins for sending links to Twitter:<\/p>\n

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There has been one problem with my site and WP to Twitter — it posts the tweet before the database cache is done updating... Whenever this happens I have to dump the cache, not hard, but annoying.<\/p>\n

The biggest feature (for me) that WP Tweets Pro brings: a delay setting for the Tweets. Now all TBR tweets will be delayed by one minute, thus (hopefully) solving all my problems. This plugin also has some other cool features, and for $25 — why not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wait, what? The world’s most popular blogging platform can’t even dump its caches<\/i> when they expire? This is ridiculous. And Ben writes about it as if it was OK. It’s so embarrassing for such a thing to even exist. It’s 2012, not 1997, right? And one minute delay for $25 — what an elegant solution.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Ben Brooks writes about WordPress plugins for sending links to Twitter", "date_published": "2012-05-21T15:39:40+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-05-21T15:39:30+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes", "WordPress" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 21 May 2012 15:39:40 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "61", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "49", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/2012\/04\/24\/1\/", "title": "Microsoft as an enterprise company", "content_html": "

MG Siegler on Microsoft<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Essentially, they’d follow the IBM path. Nothing wrong with that. IBM is still a great company, they’re just different from what they once were.<\/p>\n

For some reason though, all anyone cares about is the consumer space. And, let’s be honest, Apple now owns it. If it’s not clear to you now, it will be in a year. Or two years max. It’s just the way it is.<\/p>\n

In five years, Microsoft will be known as an enterprise company. That’s not controversial in my book, it’s just an observation on where things are headed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "MG Siegler on Microsoft", "date_published": "2012-04-24T16:24:51+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-05-05T13:44:54+03:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "Microsoft", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:24:51 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "49", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "47", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/2012\/04\/20\/1\/", "title": "Unit share not important", "content_html": "

Oleg Andreev explains<\/a> why unit share is not that imporant:<\/p>\n

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Units do not tell you much. There are very different categories of products and prices hidden behind the units. A person who buys a $50 phone does not usually consider buying an iPhone for $500. Or he may consider buying an iPhone instead of buying a cheap phone, handheld game console, wristwatch, a calculator and a flight to visit parents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "Oleg Andreev explains why unit share is not that imporant", "date_published": "2012-04-20T09:07:02+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-05-05T13:45:13+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:07:02 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "47", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "39", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/2012\/04\/08\/1\/", "title": "The “of course” factor", "content_html": "

Om Malik, quoting his friend Christian Lindholm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Most companies (including web startups), he said, are looking to “wow” with their products, when in reality what they should be looking for is an “‘of course’ reaction from their users.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course.<\/p>\n", "summary": "Om Malik, quoting his friend Christian Lindholm", "date_published": "2012-04-08T00:28:36+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-05-05T13:46:04+03:00", "tags": [ "design", "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:28:36 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "39", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "38", "url": "https:\/\/ilyabirman.net\/meanwhile\/2012\/04\/03\/2\/", "title": "Imperial Windsor network-at-arms", "content_html": "

Dan Benjamin on the latest Talk Show<\/a> made me laugh:<\/p>\n

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They were like “Oh my gosh, you can’t call it iTV, no way you could call it iTV, that’s nuts. Because this is this huge thing over here that everybody loves and knows about, you know ‘I’ stands for Imperial, it’s the Royal Imperial Windsor Network-at-Arms or something, is the full name of the ITV.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n", "summary": "Dan Benjamin on the latest Talk Show made me laugh", "date_published": "2012-04-03T10:15:11+03:00", "date_modified": "2012-05-05T13:46:19+03:00", "tags": [ "quotes" ], "_date_published_rfc2822": "Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:15:11 +0300", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "38", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": [], "og_images": [] } } ], "_e2_version": 4269, "_e2_ua_string": "Aegea 12.0a (v4269e)" }