Google engineer Ray Cromwell, responding a month ago to my “ Google Versus ” piece, “ Hardcore Apple Fans and Siege Mentality ”: Just got back from I/O and I run into a Twitter thread whereFarhad Manj
The defense of privacy always follows the emergence of technologies for breaching it. Illustration by Nishant Choksi. The defense of privacy always follows the emergence of technologies for breaching it. Illustration by Nishant Choksi. An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring…
I’m not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show “Portlandia.” My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the cultu
As prepared for delivery. It’s an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791– standing guard in the early days of the Republic, and contemplating the future of warfare here in the 21 st century. For over two centuries, the…
On the first Saturday in April of 2002, the temperature in Washington, D.C., had taken a dive. Tourists were bundled up against the cold, and the cherry trees along the Tidal Basin were fast losing th
Great design is a product of care and attention applied to areas that matter, resulting in a useful, understandable, and hopefully beautiful user interface. But don’t be fooled into thinking that desi
When you turn on the pregame shows or click open an article discussing the NBA playoffs and Finals, you find a great deal of concern about rotations and five-man lineups. "How will the Spurs respond i
Don Hankins Like everything else, dating has moved online in recent years through a combination of organized dating services and incidental meetings (the Ars forums have enabled a number of matches).
Michael Scott’s departure from “ The Office ” two years ago felt like the series’ natural endpoint. It was sweet and sentimental, gently poking fun at one of show’s basic conceits: that an unseen film
Google used to divine good design through data. Fred Gilbert, the lead designer of Google’s social products, says that when he joined the company in 2006, as an intern, and again in 2007, as a designe
Mixins are one of the most powerful features of Sass. Mixins allow for efficient and clean code repetitions as well as an easy way to adjust your code with ease. If you are using Sass in your developm
Sweating the details of iOS 7 Published in Thoughts and words · 5 min read · May 10, 2013 -- “Completely flat,” “Like Android,” “Microsoft-flat,” etc., etc., etc. The talk about how Apple is going to
The Buccaneers' defense has been a peculiar subject over the past season. On one play the defense stuffs a run for a loss and on the very next gives up an 80 yard touchdown pass. This process was repe
Screenshot of our own SimCity (called, for reasons that made sense at the time, We Are The Champignons) after three hours of game play. In the nearly quarter-century since designer Will Wright launche
That the growth in iOS has been phenomenal hardly needs to be stated any more. To people like me, though, who have been Apple users since the Mac Classic, it's been an amazing ride. In 2008, after the launch of the iPhone 3G, I wrote: If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to…
In the beginning, Danyelle Carter had only one thought: I'm going to die. The 7 a.m. boot camp workout class at Spelman College is a muscle-testing, lung-battering trial for even the fittest. And Cart
3 min read · Apr 29, 2013 -- I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone u
You’re already writing decent commit messages. Let’s see if we can level you upto awesome. Other developers, especially you-in-two-weeks andyou-from-next-year, will thank you for your forethought and
The Buccaneers ' pass defense was simply horrible last season. They gave up a whopping average of 297.4 passing yards per game. Offenses, at will, were able to generate huge passes down the field and
BOSTON – Millions of residents of the Boston metropolitan area were ordered to stay on “lockdown” on Friday as police and the FBI hunted down the second of the Boston Marathon bombers.I was among them
I n the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet
April 9, 2013 Setting up Sublime Text 2 I recently decided it was finally time to part ways with TextMate, my trusty companion for these last few years, and start the hunt for a new editor. After a qu
Let’s be honest, we all like to play a bit and customise our experience. In particular if it is for an application we use everyday like OmniFocus. In the current Mac version you can achieve this using Themes and Perspectives. When you build a new Perspective you are typically looking for a suitable…
Improve your CSS? Hire me as your coach. JavaScript archives Compatibility CSS coaching QuirksBlog Donations Politics Mobile About COH sitemap contact Blink So Google created Blink, the new rendering
Preface Recently, and with increasing frequency, developers have been speaking out about the difficulties they’ve had trying to implement support for iCloud in their products, and journalists have bee
Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic These examples will help you quickly decide whether the conversational AI chat Bard or the conventional link Google Search will best meet your needs. Published:
Of all the things I love about Dropbox—incredibly seamless integration with OS X and Windows; automated back up and revision history; access to my files on multiple devices, wherever I am; sharing pho
Alfred is a great shortcut and productivity tool for the Mac that received a huge update last week . In case you don’t know, Alfred allows you to quickly perform tasks with a series of keyboard shortc
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Arrested Development is shooting for the first time in seven years and the Bluths are having a bad day. Gob Bluth, disheveled in a tuxedo, a shiner under his left eye, flops down in a seat in a police station. His ambiguously straight brother-in-law, Tobias Fünke, also in a…
This is the first Android device I would feel comfortable using on a regular basis. That doesn’t mean I’m going to, but I would be just fine with it. If I had to boil down my thoughts about the Nexus
2500 years ago, Europe was a filthy mess of dirt roads, battered and cracked by hooves in the summer and rutted by rude wheels in the winter. To travel from the British isles to the tip of the Apennin
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