Last year over 30,000 people took the A List Apart 2008 survey, and they published the rather interesting results. Of course, considering it’s an opt-in, global survey, last year’s results are rather skewed (respondents are heavy on the male developer side, for example). But over time, this project can only help us better understand the [...]
We discovered something strange at HTC the other day. There was some Swedish character encoding lurking in our system. I for one think the Swedes are commendable for their efforts to fight the inevitable extinction of natural blondes. If we were to map the human genome on an actual map of the world, Sweden would [...]
In a slightly more banal lost-in-translation disparity than the whole “crisis-opportunity” thing, the French the word for upload and download is technically one and the same: Télécharger. While many French interfaces dodge around it by using recevoir/envoyer or importer/exporter for clarity, I think it’s neat that for “Télécharger” the focus is on the action in [...]
Last Friday I remembered a Soviet joke from an old IB history textbook that I used to like, so I decided to share it with a coworker: Liesl: Why does the secret police always travel in threes? Intrigued coworker: I don’t know, why? Liesl: One can read, one can write, and one keeps an eye [...]
