December 2011
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18 Fonts I'd Use, ComicBookFonts, and Their...
It all started with searching for and experimenting with different monospaced fonts in IDEs. But then reading and writing so much slowly transformed me into a font maniac. For a while the Personal and then Portfolio Typekit plans offered me comfort. The last episode of Andy Ihnatko’s podcast introduced me to the ComicBookFonts and their special offer on each year’s Jan. 1st: every font for...
Dec 29th
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Analysts, Reports, and Market Predictions: Carrier...
While it’s outside the main focus of my NoSQL blog, reading that IDC nominated Carrier IQ—let’s say it is a Big Data company—in its 2011 Innovative Business Analytics Companies Under $100M to Watch, made me wonder how often are analysts off or how limited are these reports. Were they off when predicting the future of NoSQL Database companies too?
Dec 12th
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The iOS Missing Gesture
The 4-fingers gesture on iPad is better than double-tapping the home button. But this would be the perfect one.
Dec 9th
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Power Is Fast Shifting From End Users and Software... →
Jonathan Zittrain: If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we’ll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we’ll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.
Dec 1st
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