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Dan Pink on Motivation

May 30th

This is a really amazing version of the Daniel H. Pink speech about Motivation. It all into it’s second book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us“.

And, best of all, it’s all explained on a white board

The Story of Bottled Water

Mar 30th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Show this to as much peoples as possible. It probably something some informed/smart people already know, but I admit that having someone making a video of it, makes it more “rememberable”, so more effective on (my) future behaviour.
I’m cheese? I’m controllable through videos? Possibly, but in this case I’m OK with that.

More at: The Story of Stuff.

iPad Simulator in Video and Comments

Jan 30th

Posted by Detro in IT / Comp-Sci / Code

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I would have just posted it on Twitter, but I have some comments about this video.

One of the first video of the iPad Simulator

Watch it in Full screen at 720p: it help “feeling” the proportions used by Apple in the UI
It clarify how it does execute iPhone apps: they most probably implement the iPhone API as is: indeed even the Keyboard that you get in an iPhone application is the same (no super large/super cool keyboard of the iPad
I feel that 4 icons per row are too few: there a kilometers between an icon and the next one
I feel that the hardware home button doesn’t fit very well proportionally: they should have used a rectangular button way larger: given the size of the device, is too small
The amount of free space in the top bar (the one with Battery, Time and Signal Strength) is A JOKE. In there nice little icons of the services running in background, or tickers of latest emails… or something else SHOULD fit
Integrated Spotlight is a proportional abomination: why the search bar in the TOP has the fixed size of the one used by iPhone? I mean, it takes not even half of all the width it could
Notification Modal Dialogs (used to ask stuff like “Are you sure you want to delete this app?”) is SO SMALL, that in the middle of the screen looks like you should do something else around it. EVEN with the background faded in black: I believe such effect of “prioritization” works as long as the user can’t have something else to look at.
File Sharing!!! It misses a proper Finder Mobile to share files through Bluetooth, USB, Wifi, as well as management of those files! I don’t want to email me stuff! And I don’t want to pay for an extra software that is not well integrated or it has always some limitations.

That’s my first set. But surely I’ll have more. I need to collect reasons to stick with my position: iPass.

YouTube >> The Go Programming Language

Jan 2nd

Posted by Detro in IT / Comp-Sci / Code

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A video that I need to watch myself (I just managed to watch 25% of it), but I thought was good to post it here: just to remind how good it is to think “out of the box”. Even in Programming Languages.

Presenter: Rob Pike
Presented on: 30th Oct 2009

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.

For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:http://golang.org