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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (by CUSEC ) Their principles Elizabeth Cady Stanton — “Women should vote” Larry Tesler — “No person should be trapped in a mode” Doug Engelbart — “Enable mankind to solve solve the world’s urgent problems” (a vision of “knowledge workers” using complex powerful information tools to harness our collective intelligence) Alan Kay — “Amplify human reach and bring new ways of thinking into a faltering civilisation that desperately need it” ...

(via Hakiri » Was Huxley right? ) I stumbled upon the following cartoon on twitter. I have read " 1984 " [ George Orwell , 1949] but not " Brave New World " [ Aldous Huxley , 1931 ]. Will be visiting the local library soon. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared taht what we love will ruin us. Further work by Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited (1958) In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the world was becoming like Brave New World much faster than he originally thought. ...

Se educas o teu cavalo aos gritos, não esperes que te obedeça quando simplesmente lhe falas. — Dagobert D. Runes (via Guillermo Ballenato in Faltam regras na educação das crianças – Expresso.pt )

CSS = California Style Sheets Jenn $chiffer (via A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS — Medium )

{width=“400” height=“296”} code-switching\ the phenomenon of alternating between two or more languages during spoken conversation (via The REAL Real Problem with Facebook ∙ An A List Apart Column ) [code

How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? (across 5 years) (via xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? )

The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )

Being organized is the first and most important part of cooking (…) it’s all about setting yourself up to succeed. Thomas Keller (in his book Ad Hoc at Home )

Code Like a Chef: Work Clean | The Table XI Blog Interesting concept, specially the part gotten from the Ad Hoc at Home cooking book (by Thomas Keller ), which got me to dig out for the full text snippet ( emphasis added): Being organized – as we say in our kitchen, working clean – is a skill to develop. We call it mise-en-place , French for, literally, ‘put in place.’ The term can be very specific, referring to ingredients needed to complete a recipe, measured out and ready to use, or it can be more general: are you organized, do you have everything you need to accomplish the task at hand? ...

Don’t hate, create. Ben Horowitz (in Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture | Re/code )

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The Highlight — Best of 2013: UI Animations — Beautiful Pixels This year too, we’ve selected some fantastic apps in our list of The Highlight — UI Animations . See also for 2012 .

The Secret Power Behind Why We Pick Crowded Restaurants Over Empty Ones | Fast Company | Business Innovation I called my cousin that evening and offered him $50 a day to come down with his mates and play with the helicopters. This was a 14-year-old kid’s dream, and he enthusiastically accepted my offer. My cousin and his mates came down every lunchtime and spent their entire weekends at the stall. I ended up selling all the helicopters by December 10. (…) I had completely sold out and had nothing to sell. ...

Creators need an immediate connection with what they’re making Bret Victor ’s guiding principle (via his talk Inventing on Principle )

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Pairing vs. Code Review: Comparing Developer Cultures Prerequisites for success There are a few nonnegotiables that are common across both of these paradigms. Solid continuous integration Talented core developers Agreement on the importance of code quality Iterative self-organization The joys of pairing Everybody gets better together Pairing can balance the natural daily ebbs and flows of energy A peer generates motivation for self-improvement Tactical decisions are made more easily and with better results [Stronger] concept of collective code ownership but, ...

Open Source: Building on the Shoulders of Giants CocoaPods.org – The Dependency Manager for Objective C Alcatraz : Xcode Package Manager Tooling: Teaching a Computer to Fish nomad :: world-class command line utilities for iOS development xctool — replacement for Apple’s xcodebuild (via Third Wave Objective-C // Speaker Deck ) ( Source: http://cocoapods.org/ )

Using one tab per task , instead of one tab per file, and applying Xcode behaviours to automatically switch between them. (via Triangle CocoaHeads May: Xcode Behaviors Presentation – Jay Thrash) See also How to make Xcode’s UI work for you (maybe) ( Source: https://player.vimeo.com/ )