Ignore what you’re reading about the current investment climate. Yep, there is plenty of VC money out there and it’s aggressively looking for a home. But that doesn’t mean it’s so much easier to raise

Published in on startups · 4 min read · Aug 21, 2014 -- Product Hunt: from experiment to VC-backed startup When you look back at yourself six months from today and don’t feel embarrassed by your naive

I was born in 1980, and I still remember the days when “bringing in six figures” was a sign of extreme wealth and success. It was more than enough to buy the perfect house with a white picket fence, after all, and achieving that sort of income implied a certain level of status that nearly everyone…

5 min read · Apr 9, 2013 -- Designers love to sweat the details . Much time is spent pixel-fucking buttons, form styles, setting type, & getting those icons as sharp as a tack. A+, great job, don't st

The end of the printed newspaper. 9 min read · Aug 19, 2014 -- The Roanoke Times , the local paper in my family home, is a classic metro daily, with roots that go back to the 1880s. Like most such pap

“A lot of people ask what’s different this time,” said Sam Altman, who took over Y Combinator from Paul Graham at the beginning of the year. “But the main thing I’m trying to do is keep things running

Scott Olson Above you'll see a picture of Scott Olson, the Getty photographer who's brought us many of the most striking images of protests and police crackdown that followed the shooting of Michael B

This is my avatar: I’ve used this photo on Twitter and other services for the past five years and have no intention of changing it despite my increasing age (I just turned 27). I often see people chan

There's something creepy in this Washington Post piece about Penguin's new "adult" cover for the 50th anniversary edition of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Well, something else creepy, beyond th

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T he shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown is an awful tragedy that continues to send shockwaves through the community of Ferguson, Missouri and across the nation. If I had been told to get out of the

X’s are everywhere in user interface (UI) design. A powerful symbol, [x] is capable of closing windows and popups, toolbars and tabs and anything else that might otherwise be cluttering up your screen

Published in Building Bowery · 3 min read · Jul 30, 2014 -- When measuring developer performance, it’s hard to find an appropriate metric to use that doesn’t rely too heavily on anecdotal evidence. Th

Which is exactly what is special about it. It’s a little spot of green that hugs a creek and some train tracks under a commuter town filled with gently aging Victorians, massive and occasionally letha

The tough-talking promoter and manager who made Lennox Lewis the World Champion now lives as a woman called Kellie.

Two summers ago, it was "Blurred Lines." This summer it was "Fancy." These days, it's "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift. Every year, there's a new song that we all hate until we don't anymore ( see : playcounts ). And it turns out that's because we were brainwashed to like them. Research suggests that…

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I want you to think about what you’re doing right now. I mean really think about it. As your eyes move across these lines and funnel information to your brain, you’re taking part in a conversation I s

Photographer David Slater wants Wikipedia to remove his photograph of a monkey taking a photo of itself but Wikipedia has refused, saying that as the photographer, the monkey owns the copyright to the photo. The Gloucestershire-based photographer…

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Swift (-taylor) is the exciting new language Apple debuted at WWDC in 2014. It took pretty much all of us in the developer community by surprise. We’re now in August, 5 beta builds into Xcode and I fe

Published in Secret Den · 4 min read · Aug 5, 2014 -- When we created Secret six months ago, we first gave it to our friends and family. We watched how they shared every day and believed Secret could

Earlier this year we sat down as a company and looked at all the amazing pieces of technology we had built. Foursquare then had two distinct use-cases — keeping up and meeting up with friends, and fin

I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment thanbenefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQLin a program, but they should not replace it. Some backgroun

social networks and the art of personalizing propaganda It’s hard to shake away the utterly depressing feeling that comes with news coverage these days. IDF and Hamas are at it again, a vicious cycle

Benedict Evans asks a good question: If you were running this business, why would you slow down to take profits? pic.twitter.com/mbMNfbyZT4 — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) July 28, 2014 The growth c

Published in The Message · 12 min read · Jul 30, 2014 -- Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube. The first time I noticed the room was in the Numa Numa video of 2004, circulated pre-YouTube, i

This post expands on a question I recently encountered at a midtown bar. It revolves around what types of data I had worked with in the past and which ones turned out to be most challenging in study. Admittedly, the conversation wasn't ideal…

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood , the celebrity role-playing game from the Seinfeld of reality stars, is currently the fifth most popular free iPhone app on Apple's charts. It's also the fifth-highest gross