For some fields and majors, universities serve as little more than an expensive – both in terms of time and money – confirmation of employability in modern times. The educational curricula which mattered to the economy has always been within grad schools that built coursework around accreditation in a particular field (e.g., the law schools, the...
I guess it's pretty common to come across software design whose main contribution is looking good in a screenshot or on a dribbble portfolio page. It's a bit less common to find a design that which accounts for interaction yet still doesn't seem to actually be, y'know,...
This article came across my Twitter feed today. It talks about how as a founder, one of the nice side benefits of success is being able to reward those loyal and faithful employees with equity that turns into real cash. It's a happy story for everybody involved: employees win, executives and high-level managers...
This generation of consoles has not been kind to Japanese game developers. The quality of games from "western" game developers has leaped ahead in terms of innovative systems, advanced technology and worldwide appeal; while Japanese quirkiness has proven endearing and fun the past two decades, even the Marios of the industry are ringing...
Firefox OS is coming – Ars posted a preview of a prototype, and while its chances of success are slim in the face of (relatively) more mature mobile operating and eco-systems[1], it's encouraging to see how something as rich and as complex as an operating system be built with web APIs and standards....
As expected, Sony announced their next-gen console today. The keynote filled in some of the juicy details, including apparently some sort of social network and video sharing, game streaming, the usual cacophony of motion + touch + button controls, and of course top-of-the-line hardware specs (at this point in time) and pretty games. The Verge has a...
