It used to be hard work to get a video to play in a browser. A site could link directly to a video file for download, but that takes readers away from the site and out of their browsers. You could, as
The Syrian war has been a slowly unfolding catastrophe, one that has embroiled several of the world's major powers. Early Saturday, the United States and its British and French allies conducted airstrikes on three targets outside Damascus and Homs in response to an alleged chemical attack by the…
I hate the Pumping Lemma for regular languages. It’s a complicated way to express an idea that is fundamentally very simple, and it isn’t even a very good way to prove that a language is not regular.
In Here Is New York , E.B. White opens with this sentence: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Sixty-four years have pas
The Number One Trait of a Great Developer Average reading time is Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more si
September 3, 2013 Beyond Flat It seems mobile UIs are converging. Next month, millions of iPhone users will download a flatter version of iOS , one that doesn’t mimic real-life objects. Skeuomorphism
Our Newfound Fear of Risk We’re afraid of risk. It’s a normal part of life, but we’re increasingly unwilling to accept it at any level. So we turn to technology to protect us. The problem is that tech
Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acquisi
September 2019 Articles Rotman School of Management - Secrets of the Best Leaders (Fall 2019) Shawn Mandel & Andrew Kumar come together to discuss how companies today must adapt to the digital transfo
With the entire world on edge over (possible) impending airstrikes on Syria, it seems that Israel decided to freak everyone out and start launching ballistic missiles into the sea.
Around 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning, Russian news services began reporting that Russian-based radar systems detected…
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Luke Wood, left, the president of Beats Electronics, with co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre in 2012. Getty Images The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people…
So many of our online social interactions are firmly entrenched within specific tools. Want to share updates with family and friends? Facebook. Want to chat about current events with the whole world?
So a couple of months ago Douglas Atkin, head of Community and E-staff Member at AirBnB, took to the stage of the Le Web conference in London ( video ) to announce the formation of Peers : “a grassroo
August 29, 2013 Learning how to think The most profound thought from a recent Inc. Magazine interview with Paul Graham was his response to a question about bad habits shared by YC founders: They don’t
Recently, I wrote a post called “ Entrepreneurs Deserve Full Transparency ” for my WSJ series . Several entrepreneurs wrote me, but this story really stands out as a warning to do your diligence and d
Short version: I'm building Penflip, a collaborative writing platform . It's similar to GitHub, but designed for writing instead of coding. Longer version: For the past three years, I've used GitHub f
(I know some people will be interested in a followup post to Don’t Fly During Ramadan . I plan on writing one, but this post happens to be timely.) Yesterday, August 28th, 2013, marks the 50th anniver
Published in Frontiers · 3 min read · Aug 29, 2013 -- I am constantly approached about helping someone start the next “Apple” or “Google”. I have had some success in the tech startup scene, which made
Over the years many people have asked me the same question: I’m starting this new project, what technology do you think I should use? Often these people fit in one of two categories: Technologists who’ve already made up their mind Non-technologist entrepreneurs who need to be reassured At the end of…
28 Aug, 2013 24 Comments This writing was prompted by yet another article posted to Hacker News . There is always an overabundance of articles about somebody moving to a standing desk to combat some health issue. To me, this has always seemed a bit futile as well as overkill. You're still sedentary.…
"When Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer in a California auditorium in 1984, the screen displayed a photo of him . At one level, it was merely a way of demonstrating the computer’s graphics
A while back you might have read Y-Combinator’s Paul Graham calling for entrepreneurs to “Kill Hollywood,” soliciting ideas on how to eat the film industry’s lunch. Coming out following the backlash against the MPAA led bid to pass SOPA, it was a novel war cry but I believe inherently misguided. The…
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It’s funny, electric car company Tesla has been building its business for a decade now, but it’s just in recent months that the auto industry seems to be taking Tesla’s innovations as an actual threat
“What can I start doing today to make my life happier and more fulfilling?” This is one of the most common questions readers ask us via email, blog comments, and social media. So today I want to share
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes i
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Aug 11, 2013 -- I’ve done a lot of video interviews. This is one of my favorite if not my favorite outright . It’s only 12 minutes long and if you’r
When “faking it before making it” actually works Published in Platform Thinking · 4 min read · Aug 23, 2013 -- There were several factors that contributed to YouTube becoming the #1 video sharing serv
Apple appears to be testing out some new changes to its iTunes App Store ranking algorithms, taking into account app ratings and other new factors in the Top Chart rankings. It's not clear if the chan
Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan to
Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This enables users to return to arch
August 19, 2013 When Apps Modify Behavior Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed an app blowing up in my social circle. It’s more of a controlled explosion, really — as far as I can tell, the app
Beware of geeks bearing gifts 21 Aug, 2013 First Google, and now Facebook, want to connect the world to the Internet. Surely, this can only be a good thing, right? The Trojan Horse also looked like a
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