$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
“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “Dear @SlackHQ, I love you. Yours, Dan” “@SlackHQ YOU COMPLETE ME” You’ve probably heard about Slack’s exponential growth. And you may have rea
How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW) Published in The Message · 15 min read · Jan 21, 2015 -- #BreakTheInternet? On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightli
President Obama’s State of the Union Address — Remarks As Prepared for Delivery 28 min read · Jan 21, 2015 -- There is a ritual on State of the Union night in Washington. A little before the address,
This is HMS Dreadnought. It was launched by the Royal Navy in 1906 and was the first modern battleship, such that all previous battleships are known retrospectively as 'pre-dreadnought'. Amongst other
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One of my pet peeves in website usability design is forcing people to create unnecessary accounts. My recent purchase of some concert tickets from Ticketfly required me to make an account to buy them. For people who buy a lot of concert tickets, having an account may make a lot of sense. But for me,…
In the tech industry, alcohol is currency. It’s used to grow event attendance, to bribe participants, to reward employees and community members. Informal interviews are conducted in bars, to see if po
This week was a huge one for technology at the Supreme Court. The Court issued three opinions — Riley v. California, United States v. Wurie, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo — that t
I didn’t go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook. I kno
Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…
Nobody ever wants to talk about money. But current and prospective indie app developers could really use more information on the subject. I’ve seen some very informative and helpful posts from develop
8 min read · Dec 3, 2014 -- The advice come from “Zero to One” book. This article is a short summary of it. The first team Thiel built has become known in Silicon Valley as the “PayPal Mafia” because
I was chatting with John Borthwick a few years ago and he said something that struck me. He said he was interested in companies that appear to be focused on selling X but are really online communities that happen to make money selling X. This helps explain why many investors are confused by the…
Rap Genius co-founder Tom Lehman Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch On Monday, we learned that Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker's pop-music critic, was leaving the magazine to become executive edi
It got into the teens in northern New Jersey this week, or by my own personal standards, a windchill of Are You Frigging Kidding Me? Which is when I remembered my own wind-chill repellant, a piece of
Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jan 12, 2015 -- Over the last few days, dozens of people have sent me a link to Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen.” Inc
January 2015 Corporate Development, aka corp dev, is the group within companiesthat buys other companies. If you're talking to someone from corpdev, that's why, whether you realize it yet or not. It's
As far as hype goes, Jet.com is near the top in the e-commerce industry right now. Founded by the guy behind Diapers.com, the company has raised $80 million in investments , and it hasn’t even launche
ohn Ulan, University of Alberta Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today. Scientists have designed a computer program, named Cepheu
I absolutely loved this New York Times column which lamented the world of apps, where we don’t have the capability to link to content anymore: Unlike web pages, mobile apps do not have links. They do
I Am Not Charlie Hebdo The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical
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7 min read · Jan 8, 2015 -- There has been a lot of rumbling about firing Dick Costolo from Twitter … on Twitter. While the company continues to become more and more culturally important (think: polic
9 min read · Jan 7, 2015 -- Insights from an indie app developer I was almost two years into a job as Senior .NET Developer when my boss called me into his office. “You should absolutely write some iP
7 min read · Jan 6, 2015 -- Written by Varun Srinivasan, in collaboration with the Amp team “Why can’t you just turn up the volume?” When Alex and I were pitching SoundFocus as an app that helped peop
Sarah Lacy’s latest Medium/me critique makes no sense: Medium has been producing some enviable original journalism of late, but Williams is so risk averse that he simply won’t — or maybe can’t — decid
The International CES is now officially underway, so of course I woke up early and made a bee-line for the Oculus booth, which is thoroughly impressive in and of itself. A two story well appointed beh
About five years ago, on a westbound bus rolling across the high and empty plains in the middle of the country, a young woman got so disturbingly wasted that the driver put her off in the little city
Software Gaming Microsoft Deals Windows vNext Windows 10 Windows 11 Insiders Server Write for us Send news tip News Reporter Neowin @stevenjohns · · Hot! Image: Adrienne Porter Felt SSL/TLS is a proto
Forget contactless point-of-payment… that’s a solved problem. Apple’s use of tokenization is the interesting part [USUAL DISCLAIMER: I have no inside info, these are personal views] I’ve been using a
Genius began life as a website that helped explain what rap lyrics meant. I remember the first time I used it; I wanted to understand what ‘dun-ta-duns’ were, and so I checked: “Dun-ta-duns, are tight
Rewriting Reddit Translations: Srpsko-Hrvatski 2012 note: This article was first published in 2005. After it was published, Django launched a RemovingTheMagic project to address some of my criticisms
This was just so clear cut, and an orthodoxy: To assign pitched outrage to mundane news items for the sake of clicks. That was the job: to trawl Twitter, and the rest of the internet, for conspiracy and evidence of liberal malice. Then, to repackage these stories or posts or memes for the target…
A problem lots of websites wrestle with is driving repeat visitation. To some extent, it's in your user or customer's hands. Sometimes that person needs to buy a book, and so they end up at Amazon. Or
El Transito is a fishing village that hugs the Pacific Ocean on the coast of north-central Nicaragua. Home to about 2,200 people, it’s reached only by an hour-and-fifteen-minute rumble along a dirt ro
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