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From The Weird Redemption of SF’s Most Reviled Tech Bro by Lauren Smiley
…ming tech employees unless someone with less money was kicked out. Protestors circled a Google bus. They stood in front of Twitter carrying a coffin labeled “Affordable Housing.” In another two months, a dude in a dive bar would famously rip a pair of Google Glasses off a repor…
From The Weird Redemption of SF’s Most Reviled Tech Bro by Lauren Smiley
Decades of NIMBY housing policy in a cramped city meant there was no room for the tens of thousands of incoming tech employees unless someone with less money was kicked out. Protestors circled a Google bus. They stood in front of Twitter carrying a coffin labeled “Affordab…
From How Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet by Washington Post
His answer was simple, Facebook has the audience. The competitors don’t.
From A Chicken In Every Bot by M.G. Siegler
…eep it insanely simple and focused. Do one thing great and let the technology catch up to the hype. If you try to fake the magic at a massive scale, you will likely fail. Baby steps.
From A Chicken In Every Bot by M.G. Siegler
My advice to anyone building a bot right now is to keep it insanely simple and focused. Do one thing great and let the technology catch up to the hype. If you try to fake the magic at a massive scale, you will likely fail. Baby steps.
From Shipping the org chart by Dag Olav Norem
“Your products will mirror your organizational structure. Embrace the fact.”
From The Inherent Problem with Anonymous Apps by David Byttow
Without some form of identity, it’s impossible to form and strengthen lasting relationships with others. Users invest in their online personas by forming new relationships (becoming Facebook friends), pro…
From How my parents taught me about finances by Mitchell Lee
Looking back, it’s painfully obvious that none of this would have been possible without the important lessons my parents taught me while I was young. Instilling a strong understanding of the basics is one of the best ways parents can ensure their ch…
From Highlighting Medium by Tim Cigelske
When I use the highlighter, I feel like I’m more actively reading, like I’m underlining in a text. I also like seeing what others have highlighted and it makes me feel like I’m part of a big book cl…
From Angry Facebook Live is the New Angry Twitter by Jeff Jarvis
So now, when a company screws with a customer, expect that to happen before an audience. No longer can one nice person stuck at a desk in Dubuque answering angry tweets handle a shit storm…
From Steve Case Is Bullish on Tech’s “Third Wave,” Even If It’s Kind of a Bummer. by Steven Levy
…t saying that. There will continue to be some successes [in the model of] Facebook or Snapchat, but the center of gravity will shift to not just creating apps, but how you integrate software and the internet in other aspects of our lives: like health and learning and things like that. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the average age of a third-wave entrepreneur CEO is older. Not neces…
From The Many Faces of Pho by Barbara Adam
Pho Burger
From The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret by Internet of Shit
The question then, is if you’d pay for it? Will you pay for a subscription for everything in your home?
From Open letter to Tyler Hedrick for answering my open letter about the word dropper bug. by H. Nemesis Nyx
Cyborg.
From Good debugging is putting yourself in your user’s shoes by Tyler Hedrick
I was devastated, to say the least. My number one priority as a developer is to provide users of the software I write a great experience. Having random words disappear from your Medium post is far from a great experience, but worse than …
From Good debugging is putting yourself in your user’s shoes by Tyler Hedrick
…ou’re familiar with pointers. A pointer is just a reference to something that lives somewhere else. A pointer is like that little slip they give you when you check your coat at a party — a small and portable object that uniquely identifies your item. But what happens if the coat check operator gives someone else a copy of your coat check slip? Ther…
From Good debugging is putting yourself in your user’s shoes by Tyler Hedrick
Welp, that’s not good.
From A Robot Etiquette Question of the Day by Nicole Dieker
The moment that we all start believing our robots have feelings is the moment it’ll all change. We can talk about robots taking our jobs all we want, but the thing about a supermarket self-checko…
From A Robot Etiquette Question of the Day by Nicole Dieker
So I think kids get that Alexa is not a person. Alexa is a tube that sits on the kitchen counter and tells you what a diplodocus is. The alternative seems to be worse — to believe that Alexa has feelings that can be hurt, or needs t…
From The Slack Platform Roadmap by Slack API
An ecosystem in its healthiest form creates a virtuous cycle. Platforms do fail. We’ll make mistakes, but we’re building for something much greater. We are build…
From What I Learned from Professor Obama by The White House
We all want judges that are respected, independent, nonpartisan, and fair to everyone. It’s not easy to create an impartial judicial system when the people who select and confirm our judges are elected and inherently partisan, especially when it requires collaboration between the President and Senate leadership, who often represent different parties. Thus, we rely on political leaders overcoming the political calculations of the moment in order to …
From The Live-Streaming Paradox: 6 Pitfalls Blocking Network Effects by Christian Limon
The Fix: Actively curate and support the mid-tail. They are your biggest evangelists and your network’s future value creators. A network should facilitate broad engagement generously across its user-base.
From The Live-Streaming Paradox: 6 Pitfalls Blocking Network Effects by Christian Limon
The Fix: Actively curate and support the mid-tail. They are your biggest evangelists and your network’s future value creators. A network should facil…
From Commenting on leaks by Paul Ford
…since then: The data is everywhere. The media has been forced into a new cultural role, that of the arbiter of the giant and semi-legal database. ProPublica, a nonprofit that does a great deal of data gathering and data journalism and then shar…