I’ve been thinking about talking about technology as well as music for quite some time now. And I decided I would start with another topic I have quite the passion for, reading. Pocket and Instapaper,
10 min read · Mar 15, 2015 -- Exactly five years ago today, I was sitting in a conference room at Mozilla. After a long day of technical questions, I was meeting with Mike Morgan, the head of Mozilla’
What is DynamoDB? I don’t intend to explain the ins and outs of what DynamoDB is or what it’s intended for, there’s plenty of documentation online for that. But I will mention the most salient point:
Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn? Some say it’s a strange religious ritual. Others, a prank. I went looking for answers. At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street in Br
Traffic jam in SimCity (Photo credit: SimCity ) The Non-VC Approach To Growing A Media Business 6 min read · Mar 10, 2015 -- I can’t speak with any authority about why GigaOm suddenly ran out of money
Wet Wipes Box Says Flush. New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t. Michael Brady, a worker at the Newtown Creek plant in Brooklyn, raking wipes and other waste into a bin for disposal. Credit... Karsten Mo
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here . PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ We have what may
PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artifi
What would you call a targeted attack on one of America’s most successful and beloved companies in history in order to break security protections, spy on millions of citizens, intercept their communic
There is nothing arbitrary about Apple Watch. It's not as if the executive team sat around throwing ideas into a hat and the watch was pulled. Instead, I submit that a wrist worn device was the inevitible next link in the mobile computing chain. Years prior to the official announcement of Apple…
Writing Code For Humans Ilya Dorman 6 min read· Feb 15, 2015 -- I will be talking mainly about development for the web. Problem: Your brain Press enter or click to view image in full size Macro film photo from my Macbook Air’s display Our puny brain can handle a very limited amount of logic at a…
Published 19 February 2015 Share page About sharing Image source, Thinkstock By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News There I was, walking to the railway station, minding my own business, when... bam
Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has…
What follows is the presentation I gave in the inaugural meeting of Papers We Love Madrid. The subject of the talk was the paper Structured Programming with Go To Statements by Donald Knuth. The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality” - Alan Kay. The…
Preface: I started writing this post with the intention of discussing Gary Bernhardt’s conclusions in his talk, A Whole New World. Gary makes what I think are some really good points about infrastructure, tooling, and the paralysis we seem to sometimes have around it. I wanted to expand on that a…
Hi Tim: I’ve got an idea for you. I think it would be a big win for independent developers targeting Apple platforms, and by extension a big win for Apple, if the App Store revenue split used a tiered
Remember the 1983 movie WarGames? The film is about a computer “game” with the potential to start thermonuclear war. But strangely this scenario is more truth than fiction. Because in 1979 programmers at NORAD almost started World War III when they accidentally ran a computer simulation of a Soviet…
Published in Monday Note · 7 min read · Feb 15, 2015 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée Forget the iWatch, Apple Pay, and the iPhone 7…the next big thing from Cupertino will be the Apple Car. At first, I didn’t
’s owner rather than the owner herself? Would the victim blame the malicious robot, its hapless owner, or the negligent company that forgot to program it with Asimov’s laws? “We have victims without purposes. These people had no idea this would happen. It’s really emergent,” says Calo. “Maybe it’ll…
How about a search of only original reporting? Published in Whither news? · 5 min read · Feb 9, 2015 -- In recent months, I’ve heard a lot of news executives complain about Google and transparency, pa
State of the Art Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever A Google employee preparing his gear before setting out to capture images of Liberty Island in New York for Google Street View. Credit... Michael A
Imgur is celebrating its sixth birthday by releasing its paid subscription-only Pro user tools for all users. Imgur touts it as a birthday gift back to the community, but it’s also a shrewd move to re
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. On it
Interviewer: So, you’re a carpenter, are you?Carpenter: That’s right, that’s what I do.
Interviewer: How long have you been doing it?Carpenter: Ten years.
Interviewer: Great, that’s good. Now, I have a few technical questions to ask you to see if you’re a fit for our team. OK?Carpenter: Sure, that’d…
There are lots of blogs and anecdotes on (a) how to build a successful SaaS company and (b) what a successful SaaS company looks like. Yesterday’s post by Neeraj Agrawal from Battery Ventures titled T
Links are broken. These three alternatives have improved our users’ reading experience. It’s all about focus, relevance and context Published in The Correspondent · 8 min read · Jan 26, 2015 -- At De
Last week Uber revealed another way the ridesharing service is revolutionizing travel: Cities that use Uber see a reduction in drunk driving accidents among young people, a company report showed. "Whe
3 min read · Jan 29, 2015 -- Update: I shut down Composed in 2016. It was a fun experiment. Email is likely the most successful mass-communication scheme created, but has resulted in a spam problem. I
Sam Machkovech One of my Ars colleagues hadn't yet touched the Pono Player—the Neil Young-championed portable music player, nearly one year out of its successful Kickstarter and finally ready to make
In the eight years since Apple introduced the iPhone, traditional business and industry analysis has failed miserably at predicting Apple's approach to technology. Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery
I'm not a huge fan of The Daily WTF for reasons I've previously outlined . There is, however, the occasional gem – such as this one posted by ezrec: Browsing through a web archive of some old computer
$18 billion . Profit. One quarter. Pure insanity. How insane? It’s the highest earnings for a company in a quarter… ever . And it sets Apple up to post the most earnings for a company in a year… ever
As the snow settles from the Blizzard of 2015, that wasn’t (at least in New York, New England is another story) it’s becoming clear that Monday night’s historic shutdown of the New York City Subway sy
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