Jinn of Quality and Risk

Pete McBreen Pair programming is a very controversial part of XP, and some programmers are going to be unwilling to even try the practice... [in Questioning Extreme Programming, Chapter 9, via Tony Bowden] 

Excellent analysis of user-interface incoherence in the MacOS X Finder. I would add that part of the problem lies in Apple developers trying to emulate features of Windows Explorer, as well as an unhealthy obsession with Web browsers and navigation ("Back" and "Forward" buttons in the Finder!?). Daring Fireball: The most common question I've heard about the new OS X Finder is Why doesn't it remember the size and location of open windows? The answer requires an examination of the profound differences in the design philosophies underlying the old [MacOS 9] and new [MacOS X] Finders. The hallmark of the classic Finder is spatial orientation. That's a buzzword, to be sure, and even long-time Mac users have little idea what it really means, mainly because you don't have to know what it means to use the Finder. In the classic Finder, there is no abstraction between the actual file system and the view of the file system presented on screen... (I'd rather use the phrase "perceptual disconnect" than "abstraction" in this context, but that doesn't detract from the argument.) 

On November 30, 1887, the genius, inventor, engineer, and scientist Nikola Tesla filed a patent application for what became the first successful induction motor. The first practical AC motor, it helped George Westinghouse (who purchased the patent) establish an alternating current power network to compete with Edison... [via IEEE]