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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Today, we are excited to launch the public beta of Atom, a new text editor that's deeply programmable but also easy to use. Not that Atom. No, not the other Atom. This one.
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The Ariel Atom?
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No, the other Atom.
Really, could they have picked a worse name for a product? There are just too many other things named Atom in our industry. OK, maybe if they had named it notepad or something.
TTFN - Kent
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Maybe "Prism", that's always popular. 
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Ugh, yeah. Another one that seems to pop up too often.
On a similar front (I'm working on tomorrow's Mobile newsletter), we find two phones announced: Blackphone (from some Phil Zimmerman's company) and the Black phone (from Boeing).
I think we need a thesaurus.
TTFN - Kent
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Man, they really split the atom with that name choice.
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None of these products is likely to achieve critical mass.
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ERNEST-ly I'd RUTHER FOR Decide on a better name.
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This week, Microsoft announced Larson-Green would take on a new role, as chief experience officer in Qi Lu’s services group — a unit that includes, Office, Bing and Skype. The new job will get Larson-Green closer to her passions around product design, working on various “mobile-first” services. "Are you experienced?"
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The senator says Bitcoin attracts and enables criminals even as its value to the U.S. economy is "suspect, if not outright detrimental." "Don't hate what you don't understand"
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Pot, meet kettle.
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Me vs. the US Senate, or the US Senate, "attracts and enables criminals"?
TTFN - Kent
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The latter. Obviously.
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 Just making sure. I've been accused of being pot-like in the past.
TTFN - Kent
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I'd never say that about you as far as you know.
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This is a major feature release, accumulating about 5 months of development. Most improvements seem to be under-the-hood performance improvements, optimizations and better compatibility. "In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
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Now if they'd only post actual before/after benchmarks instead of the extremely vague "upto 20% performance gains". Comparing with MS's implementation would be a bonus.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With the 1.2 release, the Dart team continues its commitment to regular, compatible updates to our core runtime and tools. This release includes improved debugging, faster networking, and Angular support in the Editor.
Who is actually using Dart, and what do you think?
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I used it to write a side-scrolling game as an exercise. Seems very nice to use and the dev cycle is much better than traditional JS. I don't hold out much hope for its use outside Chrome though (except by compile to JS), which seems a shame - having a browser hosted VM (Dartium) is much better experience.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With Spritz[^]
Quote: Reading is inherently time consuming because your eyes have to move from word to word and line to line. Traditional reading also consumes huge amounts of physical space on a page or screen, which limits reading effectiveness on small displays. Scrolling, pinching, and resizing a reading area doesn’t fix the problem and only frustrates people. Now, with compact text streaming from Spritz, content can be streamed one word at a time, without forcing your eyes to spend time moving around the page.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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So, what are they really offering?
Wikipedia Article which has a section on reading rates.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Seems to be a chunk of JS and an API. How they will monetize that escapes me though. Especially in light of free options like Spreeder[^] or Beeline[^]
TTFN - Kent
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I believe there is an upcoming Android app.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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FWIW I had no trouble with the fastest option on the page, 500WPM; but as a 60-80 page/hour (mass market fiction paperback books) reader I'm already in that general speed bucket so I don't think it really says anything.
On the other hand, that demo felt more like the keyword hunting I do when looking for something than reading for comprehension; and while I can go several times faster doing that my retention levels are much lower.
On the gripping hand I really would be interested in trying a demo at 1000 WPM and doing a comprehension test afterwards.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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