March 2010
6 posts
The Story of the CDO Market Meltdown
A thesis written by a Harvard undergrad.
Overdoing the interface metaphor from Marco Arment:
We’re often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad. But it’s not absolute, and it’s not always the best idea. My favorite counterexample is the typical calculator app…. My preferred calculator, which I...
“Most U.S. citizens, for example, probably don’t realize that their country...”
– From this article. (Via MR)
