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Craig Grannell - The Guessing Game

Sat, 13 Oct 2012

Analysts don’t deserve that title, nor not being catapulted out of the window, argues Craig Grannell

There’s a painful inevitability before and after Apple releases a new product that is mirrored in a crushingly depressing manner at almost every waking moment between Apple releasing said new products. I call this the ‘curse of the guesser’. From news reports, you might know guessers as analysts, but I think that term’s too kind for the vast majority of these cursemongers.

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Andy Ihnatko - Why BBEdit rules

Thu, 11 Oct 2012

Let me run through a list of things that I’ve recently used BBEdit for.

1. I’m continuing to develop my website. But I’m kind of a dope, meaning that every working scrap of CSS and PHP that I write is the result of trial and error. So I use BBEdit as my code editor: It lets me edit my site’s files directly on the server; it previews everything in place; and when I’m about to move on to the next line without fixing an unbalanced bracket, the app gently coughs and points, rather than making me feel like an idiot.

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