Fruits

11 Mar
2010

Bottomline: Google Reader Play is awesome!

Unicode

11 Mar
2010

Currently (August, 2008), no single “Unicode font” includes all the characters defined in the present revision of the ISO 10646 (Unicode) standard. In fact, it would be impossible to create such a font in any common font format, as Unicode includes over 100,000 characters, while no widely-used font format supports more than 65,535 glyphs. So while one could make a set of related fonts to cover all of Unicode, a single Unicode font is not possible at this time. (Source: Wikipedia)

Happens when you try to cover the whole world…

“superior UX” is not a bulletpoint. It’s not a tradeoff that can be made. It’s the whole point. (via @atebits)

  1. The network is reliable
  2. Latency is zero
  3. Bandwidth is infinite
  4. The network is secure
  5. Topology doesn’t change
  6. There is one administrator
  7. Transport cost is zero
  8. The network is homogeneous

Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the above eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences. (Peter Deutsch)

This week’s links

5 Mar
2010
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