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Apple’s infamous for shifting priorities after announcing new game technology and walking away from it.
Michael Tsai - Blog - The Trouble With Mac Gaming
mjtsai.com
In the mid-19th century, banks often used signatures to authenticate people’s identities, but many of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank’s clients could not read or write. So it created a “test book” that contained a wealth of personal information. When clients came in, clerks asked them about their personal history and relations to verify their identities. Sometimes they even asked the quintessential question, “What is your mother’s maiden name?” (The assumption was that your mother’s maiden name would have faded so far into the past that almost no one else could possibly have known it.)
Online Security Questions Are Not Very Effective. I Still Love Them.
Sophie Haigney
In 2004, any code that contained backslashes (\) was likely to need some editing when placed in a Markdown code block. Backslashes weren’t treated literally within a code block; they acted as escape characters and made the output look different from the input. Very un-Markdown-ish.
More Shell, Less Egg
leancrew.com
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