NASA:
Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
via The Verge
People who have worked with — and for — me know this about me:
Half-baked work sold as a complete and acceptable solution will get under my skin every time.
If the person cannot grasp that their work could even be potentially shoddy, and I’m prone to having an aneurism.
I have found over the years that this character trait 1 shows up in all sorts of weird situations. One of the most disconnected one might be tech products and announcements.
Besides a mobile phone, the major applications were a calendar, address book, world clock, calculator, note pad, e-mail, and games. It had no physical buttons to dial with. Instead customers used a touchscreen to select phone numbers with a finger or create facsimiles and memos with an optional stylus. Text was entered with either a unique “predictive” on-screen keyboard or QWERTY keyboard. The Simon had an optional PCMCIA memory card.
This two-part series over at Engadget shows just how deeply carriers are involved with new phones. Reading this really helped me understand why the Android market is such a mess, and how different the iPhone really is.
Drew Schuster has posted a nice alternative to the Pinboard backup solution I posted about the other day.
Frank Warren, the man behind PostSecret:
99% of the secrets created were in the spirit of PostSecret. Unfortunately, the scale of secrets was so large that even 1% of bad content was overwhelming for our dedicated team of volunteer moderators who worked 24 hours a day 7 days a week removing content that was not just pornographic but also gruesome and at times threatening.
Bad content caused users to complain to me, Apple and the FBI. I was contacted by law enforcement about bad content on the App. Threats were made against users, moderators and my family. (Two specific threats were made that I am unable to talk about). As much as we tried, we were unable to maintain a bully-free environment. Weeks ago I had to remove the App from my daughter’s phone.
My son would have a heart attack if he saw this video.
I’m using Marcelo Somers’ helpful script to keep a local copy of my Pinboard bookmarks. I don’t use ifttt.com, but having my Pinboard bookmarks as an XML file in my Dropbox sure feels good. (I’m just manually firing the curl command at this point. I’ll get around to automating it with CRON at some point.)
If you aren’t using Pinboard — or if you are, but haven’t paid for the archiving — you really are missing out on a great web service.
This little machine deserves a lot more credit than it gets.
After the crazy stuff that happened with Netflix this year, why didn’t Reed Hastings lose his job, not just some money?