Industrial landscape, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 2006.
so good
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crookedindifference reblogged jesuisperdu:
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Sometimes I learn things about my work through newspaper articles. My favorite quote:
“After he was arrested, Hughes asked to talk to former President George W. Bush, saying he wanted his favorite president to know he was in trouble.”
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Physics student Andrew Oriani diagrams patron movement at the Cleveland Museum of Art to better understand how visitors walk through a museum.
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50 years of government spending, in a single graph by Lam Thuy Vo for NPR.
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lifeandcode reblogged tur-nr:
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Humanities students should be more like computer-science students…
My computer-science colleague guest-lectured in my class on approaches to literature and culture, showing my students all the different programs he uses to work with texts, to mine them for the interesting information … He told them that for every hundred experiments he tries with texts, perhaps one yields information worth following up. One.
Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts.
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Kim-Mai Cutler caught up with Hong Kong mobile app developer Animoca and notes that they test against 400 different Android devices. And they’d do even more — but many are no longer for sale.
Just look at the picture.
Cutler:
But imagine the long-tail of developers! Imagine the people who make the roughly 500,000 apps in the Google Play store. Total nightmare.
Right, for a big app house, this is very annoying, but doable. For a small team of app developers, this is impossible. Many pick the top 3 to 5 Android phones and stick to those when it comes to testing. Unfortunately, there are so many quirks across devices that it leads to a shit ton of bugs or full-on incompatibility.
“Total nightmare” is too kind. It’s total hell.
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“Rose,” submitted by John Siracusa
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“Information overload is not the problem; you want all the information. It’s filter failure.”
— Clay Shirky | Yammer, NationalField, And The Future Of How We Collaborate At Work 
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