Linked List: August 26, 2007

Sunday, 26 August 2007

Holding a Program in One’s Head ★: Paul Graham:

Mathematicians don’t answer questions by working them out on paper the way schoolchildren are taught to. They do more in their heads: they try to understand a problem space well enough that they can walk around it the way you can walk around the memory of the house you grew up in. At its best programming is the same.
Doing More With Less ★: iMovie ’08 is perhaps the most polarizing product Apple has released in years.
Pantone’s Missed Chance ★: Tim Bray, recalling advice he offered to the CEO of Pantone in 1995:

I said “Give the software away to Netscape and Microsoft (for IE). If it’s good, millions of page designs on the Net will be specced in Pantone numbers. Your upside is huge.”

He looked at me like I was completely fucking nuts.
WTF Mac Store ★: The perils of setting text sideways.
Fill-in-the-Blanks ★: Useful pattern for UI design.
Worst Product Name Ever ★: Hard to believe this is real. (Via Fake Steve.)