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I'm Not There (1956) writes:
Last week the news came in that Google is supposed to unveil "Dart," a new programming language for browser-based apps. Now an internal email from late last year describes this project as "high risk/high reward" path. Apps in this new language will run in a VM on browsers that support it, and can be "compiled" to JS for other browsers. "Performance, developer usability, and ability to be tooled" are the main characteristics of the language.
16058092
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I'm Not There (1956) writes:
Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources it's Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they user Linux on their laptops. With this device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.
15986496
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I'm Not There (1956) writes:
Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like a human being. In one of his experiments, Nass found out the people are willing to help computers when they the computer treats them as well too: "When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been 'helpful,' they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version." Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which "in which he uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved."
14606118
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I'm Not There (1956) writes:
Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of paradox between Japan's strong background in simplicity and complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to see http://www.mhlw.go.jp/ and a few other websites, which all are as crowded as it can get. "It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, web users and skilled web design practitioners believe more is more."
