February 2012
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Computing 10,000x more efficiently →
When I read stories like this, it gives me great optimism about what technology can provide in the years to come. And I don’t just mean faster versions of Angry Birds.
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Need a quick way to test your responsive web... →
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I'm almost certain that I'll never be "employed"...
The following pair of links came through my Twitter timeline today almost simultaneously, and they make me believe that I will never be “employed” again:
In Praise of Cheap Labor - Bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all. Paul Krugman, New York Times
Labor Efficiency: The Next Great Internet Disruption. Nick Cronin, TechCrunch
They also reinforce ideas that I first...
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Paper Prototyping
I have been using paper prototyping for a while now to help with the design of some of the web and smartphone apps that we have been building for Geodica.
There is something quite liberating about moving away from a computer and just using a simple pen and a piece of paper, and even though I am not particularly talented as an artist, it is still possible to produce meaningful and descriptive...