Category Archives: General Interest

The Tyranny of Distance

Apple ships good developer documentation with OS X, and Xcode provides a good UI for searching it, but as I’m a beginner I like to read the conceptual documentation all the way through.

I don’t like reading long documents on a screen, so I print out the documents I want to read 2-up on single sided [...]

Quote of the day, Tyler Cowen on Google

“Everyone is smart and beautiful, and I didn’t want to leave.”

Not what you expect from Apple

While the new iPods look fine, I was surprised to see the mess that was Apple’s Australian web site at 7:25 AM this morning.

Broken images everywhere and copy which refers to the old iPod nano. Surely the updates should have been ready for weeks, and deploying them should be a press of a button!

Link of the Day: Test your Hindsight Bias

Do you suffer from Hindsight bias?

This is not one of those irritating quizzes which leave you thinking “But they didn’t ask the right questions!”, just a simple demonstration of hindsight bias.