I’ve always wondered growing up - what makes adults so busy? Sure, you’re working a 40 hour a week job but the rest should just be fun and games, right? I have vivid memories of my childhood perpetual
Mauricio Alejo For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it. The 3GS was twice as fast as its predecessor, it…
PART ONE An epiphany was had this morning as I perused SA, sipping Code Red and toying with the notion of stepping outside for my third cigarette in an hour: Nine years and 2 months of my life have be
I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, and no, it’s not the
I grew up in a small and fairly underdeveloped town; a poor town, let’s say. While I never felt that I lacked for anything in my childhood, I’d get occasional reminders of objective misfortune around
In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts behind the SQL syntax. We will go through the basics of how to use the FROM and WHERE clauses, and move on to more advanced topics like joins, aggrega
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Chapter 1: “Inmates Run This Bitch” H ave you ever had a riot?” I ask a recruiter from a pris
I have a new word for you. Cluey. Let me explain. My father once told me a mundane little anecdote from his youth. It involved his father—my late grandfather—and one of the happiest and most loving pe
Opinion Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person Credit... Marion Fayolle IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We
Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room. Lately, I’ve been hearing somet
I don’t quite remember what it’s like to wake up on Earth. Five months after ‘landing on Mars’, my day begins in a white dome in the middle of a red lava field, and I wonder: do we have enough power t
Photo: John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images This week, the Cut brings you True Romance: five days of stories about love as it’s actually lived. I’m an advice columnist, so sometimes p
The big sleep Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died in a suicide pact in October. Here, their daughters reflect on their parents’ plan - and their remarkable lives. By Julia Medew F or as long as the blu
Enlarge / What might have been. Lee Hutchinson / NASA / NOAA February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven
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I saw a male sex surrogate for five months last year. It started with a date at a café and ended with a date at a café, and in between there was a relationship that took place mostly at a private clin
Illustration by Randall Munroe There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas. He didn’t grow the cool hair until after he was done figuri
When I finished Fallout 3 , the game left me with one desire: please let there be another installment soon . Fallout New Vegas tried to fill the need, but opinions among Fallout fans were split. Some
I don't know of any ludicrous speeding tickets so I can't participate in today's QOTD, but it did remind me of my favorite SR-71 story. This is an expanded excerpt from Brian Schul 's book Sled Driver : Flying the World's Fastest Jet. (which happens to be out of print and ludicrously expensive now,…
Last week, I was hanging out with some hackers and security experts at a conference in Brooklyn when I took out my Sony phone. "Oh! The journalist uses Android. That's secure!" said one guy next to me
Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someon
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Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock I felt unmoored and directionless after my high school job at Babbage’s dissolved at the end of 1997. I’d met my wonderful wife there—we’d go on to get married in 2003—but B
People love to poke fun at Apple for its purported failure to achieve anything of lasting value in the realms of the cloud or social media . Essentially: anything that connects people to a centralized
June 15, 2015 Competition and Partisanship While writing about window management in iOS , and comparing it to what Microsoft had done in Windows 8, it occurred to me that we truly live in amazing time
Great piece by Jason Kottke, “ Asking ‘Who’s the Customer?’ ”: This might be off-topic (or else the best example of all), but“who’s the customer?” got me thinking about who the customers oflarge publi
On any given Friday night, bars, restaurants and movie theaters tend to fill up with people spending time with friends, lovers, and family. But when the weekend comes, those who find themselves on the
It’s the end of an era. The entertainment which has stretched across books, movies, and countless marketing tie-ins, which has captivated children and adults for well over a decade and which has, for
Apple news website 9to5Mac.com published a story yesterday about the upcoming revision of an already iconic product—the MacBook Air. If the information is to be believed, and maybe we should take it s
Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Happiness Motivation Personal Values Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 I n my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a f
When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 – then known as Stack Overflow – we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt worked.
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