Here at Airbnb, we've been looking curiously at Node.js for a long time now. We've used it for odds and ends, such as the build process for some of our libraries, but we hadn't built anything…
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
In TOKYO — In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There’s no mystery in front of the meat. From…
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tl;dr – The Parse JavaScript SDK now returns jQuery-compatible Promises from most asynchronous methods. Read on to learn what that means. “Promises” represent the next great…
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I am a gamer. I don’t work for Microsoft. I, like most other gamers, am sick of seeing endless rumours and speculation citing “anonymous sources” or “insiders” with…
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
Can Nate Silver do no wrong? Between elections and baseball statistics, Silver has become America’s secular god of predictions. And now he has a best-seller, “The Signal and the…
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Skeuomorphism -- the use of real world design in a digital context -- has been a target lately. At the extreme, it's held up as an example of iOS being boring, outdated, and bereft of innovation. In…
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Facebook used to build the future, but since the mobile era began it’s been chasing what’s next — buying Instagram, reskinning Beluga as Messenger, copying Snapchat as Poke, and…
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Gmail’s first problem is UX speed, and it’s been well documented by others. [a] The second is a sporadic but massive delivery lag. Where emails arrive in my inbox hours after they were…
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BitTorrent has announced a new service today called Sync, that uses peer-to-peer technology to synchronize personal files across multiple computers and devices. The file-sharing client says that…
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iPhone outside of the U.S. Sequentially we increased over 70 percent from the September quarter, which was 3.5 times the market, and so we could not be happier with that. In terms of geographic…
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Remember the Twelve South PlugBug? It's a cool little bright red adapter that adds a 2.1 Amp USB charger to your MacBook power adapter so you can charge both your MacBook and favorite iOS device at…
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By Nathaniel Mott On January 22, 2013 An Internet connection is a terrible thing to waste. (That’s how that saying goes, right?) Months after the Electronic Frontier Foundation pushed for…
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2012-11-24, Wellesley, MA I’ve been doing a lot of reading about web APIs, and I’ve come to the following conclusions: RPC web services are out. Resources and representations…
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by Lee Hutchinson - Jan 21, 2013 3:22 pm UTC View all… The news this past weekend was all Mega, Mega, Mega. We've covered the launch of the new "cyber locker" service (and I swear that's the…
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James Coplien(@jcoplien), thankfully, gave us a talk titled "DCI and Ruby — the current DCI language of choice". Which was arranged by @kakutani to, I guess, let us, Japanese Rubyists, know…
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
The Commercial Times, with additional information from China Times, seems to claim that Apple is gearing up to release three new iPhone models this year. So far, sounds good. Previous next-generation…
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by Joe Mullin - Jan 20, 2013 11:23 am UTC Kim Dotcom holds forth on Mega while his sexy "guards" keep watch. Kim Dotcom may see himself as being at war with Hollywood, but the man has quite a sense…
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A week ago today, Aaron gave up. And since I received the call late Friday night telling me that, like so many others who were close to him, I have not rested. Not slept, really. Not connected with…
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here. Some have been…
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Square Enix published mobile games on Apple platforms before that was even really a thing — witness Song Summoner and Crystal Defenders, two of the few notable third-party releases for click…
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