Chris Sacca Jun 3, 2015 · 33 min read Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and
9 min read · Jun 2, 2015 -- On playing the odd, the weird, the outsiders…and why that’s alright with me. as Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home on Broadway For much of the past two years, I have been wearing so
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Look, I don’t give two shits about my Git commits. I have no shame — okay, maybe a little shame — dropping these commits into my repositories: Over the last five years, I’ve gotten a lot of questions
When I sit down at my desk in the morning, it’s time to write. There is hot coffee to the left of my keyboard. My keyboard, well, it’s about as clicky and awesome as they come . I put in my earbuds, h
Figure of speech " The exception that proves the rule " is a saying whose meaning is contested. Henry Watson Fowler 's Modern English Usage identifies five ways in which the phrase has been used, and
I’m guilty of having a lot of negative things to say about Medium in the past. As someone who made his start in the world by writing independently , I’ve always placed a great deal of emphasis upon ownership of that work. Whether it’s the design or the typography or the actual legality of the…
All style is relative. Some people will disagree with what this blog dictates is good style, and this blog would most likely disagree with them on what they think is good style. As you can imagine, th
This post covers how I like to ship apps. It won’t work everywhere, but it works for the apps I like to make. The Release Train Every release is a train. It will leave the station whether or not you’re ready. That’s ok. You can always catch the next one. They’ll ask, “Could you ship this feature if…
The Moral Bucket List Credit... Rachel Levit. Photography by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times ABOUT once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of l
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 you don’t
From Reddit , dozens of people share their favorite lines from literature, from Nabokov to Milne to Dante. Here are a few of my favorites: Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "
Read suddenly and in isolation, this may be easy to misinterpret, so I suggest first reading some past articles which have led to this point: Admitting that Functional Programming Can Be Awkward Follo
Quality Above All The Scenery Home Work Guides About Cache Contact Contact Your team needs to move fast, but they also need to do it well. That's where we come in. We’re The Scenery and we’re passiona
About Projects w Opinion Talks May 4, 2015 Measuring emotion One of the most important responsibilities for managers in tech companies are having regular one-on-ones with their team. The idea is to me
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem holl
What is your morning routine? Ideally, if I have gotten at least 7 to 9 hours of sleep, I get up before the sun rises (5:00 or 6:00am is a dream), but sometimes I get up closer to 7 or 8:00am. I love
Could you design a brand-new game using only a deck of classic playing cards? It's a cool idea — repurposing familiar components in an original context. But the design for the game that would become D
The most admired companies of each age are often associated with a certain core competency. Ford popularized assembly line manufacturing in the 1910s. Toyota kicked off the lean revolution with its To
It’s both the coolest — and also in some ways the most depressing — psychology study ever. Indeed, it’s so cool (and so depressing) that the name of its chief finding — the Dunning-Kruger effect — has
The Magicband wields access to the park, replacing virtually every transaction you'd make inside. Bob Croslin If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando.
My apologies for the long post; I originally wrote this to try to explain to my friends why I seemed so unsociable. I then thought that R/Aspergers would like a read, both for those interested in the
I just want to start off by saying that I have spent the last two summers working for Facebook, and I wouldn’t give those opportunities up for anything. I have made some great friends at Facebook, eve
A few years ago, Matt Hall, the 39-year-old co-creator of the enormously successful Crossy Road , was a struggling, unprofitable video games developer living on an Australian sheep farm owned by his p
H ow are you supposed to be confident about something when you have nothing to feel confident about? Like, how are you supposed to be confident at your new job if you’ve never done this type of work before? Or how are you supposed to be confident in social situations when no one has ever liked you…
You're reading part one of How GitHub Works , a three-post journey into how we work at GitHub. They're all separate posts on different topics, but if you're interested you can also read the other two:
An unedited photo was uploaded to each popular social network through their iOS app. Below is a zoomed-in portion of the photo after being uploaded then downloaded compared to the original image on the right. Flickr 640x640 168KB Instagram 640x640 135KB Twitter 548x548 128KB Tumblr 640x480 70KB…
You knew Panic was making a game, right? Technically, we’re not actually making the game — we provided the funds to launch both a brand new game studio, Campo Santo , and an ambitious upcoming game… F
This story was originally published in March 2015, but we’ve updated and republished it to go with our year-end series on Tumblr memes. While you’re here, check out this insane timeline of every Tumbl
The last time I felt that my laptop had a shortcoming - a real, noticeable-daily, vexing insufficiency - it was the battery life. Three, four, or five hours just aren’t enough to fulfil the promise of
Apple has long been called a “walled garden,” with a closely connected hardware/software ecosystem. It’s why, without hacking your phone, you can only get apps from the App Store. And this model has p
Even as the notion of cards as the next big software interaction paradigm continues to gain momentum, it hasn’t gotten much easier to explain to the uninitiated what, exactly, a card is. When asked th
Quote keeping is a problem with a thousand possible solutions. Quotes can be stored in apps like Vesper, Simplenote, Evernote or even Google Docs. But the data entry sucks, and there’s no relationship
There are two models of online education: Preparatory knowledge, in the form of course-based video-delivered teachings: Coursera, Udacity, Thinkful, etc. On demand knowledge: Wikipedia, StackOverflow,
It ended with a bang. For the last year or so, Panic was typically heads-down quiet. But as 2014 drew to a close, our furious typing came to fruition and a whole lot of magic happened. It felt great.
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga., watching his kids splash around in the pool, when he clicked “publish” on his lat
At CocoaLove this past October , I demonstrated how Apple, faced with a terrible retail situation in the late nineties, took matters into its own hands by creating a chain of stores rather than resign
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