There's been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don't have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood's piece because, well, I agree…
Dave Pell writes what is perhaps the world’s best email newsletter. At least, that’s what I think, and, as you can tell from my shoes, I have impeccable taste (NB: last point contestable). A media spo
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Op-Ed Contributor The High Cost of Gambling on Oil Boston THE drastic rise in the price of oil and gasoline is in part the result of forces beyond our control: as high-growth countries like China and
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the
Ross Anderson: Some have argued that we ought to be directing our resources toward humanity's existing problems, rather than future existential risks, because many of the latter are highly improbable.
There are hundreds of devices out there right now that can access the full web , as Steve Jobs once put it. These devices come with different capabilities and constraints, things like input style or s
I took the SAT a grand total of one time when I was in dipshit prep school. This was 1993. Like any other kid, I wanted to do well on the test, primarily so that I would NEVER have to take it again, b
Adam Yauch died on May 4th. Read Sasha Frere-Jones , and listen to Ben Greenman ’s playlist. Photograph by Marcus Brandt/AP Photo. I first met Adam Yauch in 1982, in Brooklyn, when I was fifteen. I wa
There's been a flurry of recent coverage praising Sheryl Sandberg , the chief operating officer of Facebook, for leaving the office every day at 5:30 p.m. to be with her kids. Apparently she's been do
Opinion The Flight From Conversation Credit... Photographs by Peter DaSilva and Byron Smith, for The New York Times WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we
A bewildering number of services let computer and smart-phone users store and share files in the Internet’s cloud. But one file-hosting service in particular has evoked the kind of devotion ordinarily accorded social-networking services or beloved hardware manufacturers: Dropbox, the product of a…
For most of my life, I’ve struggled to quantify what constitutes an enticing interface. There are certain basic aims from which you can take your pick - intuitiveness, attractiveness, clarity, simplic
I’ve talked before about why Apple makes their phones 3.5″ diagonally and why they will never be larger than 4″ . Now a clever explanation of just how that 4″ phone might come about has been posted on The Verge forums by member Modilwar, inspired by a call in to the site’s podcast by Timothy Collins…
Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman , would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she d
College football in Florida was about swagger. About bravado. About Danny and Tim. About the U and Prime Time, about Bobby and Steve and Howard and Jimmy. About ridiculous speed. About NFL talent. Abo
When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Ori
Photo: Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram , a tiny compan
Jul 22, 2011 Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he’s mos
Before there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights. A woman we can call Sarah Wyndham, a d
Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal? Matt Bai offers a primer in less than 60 seconds. Almost immediately after the so-called grand bargain between President Obama and the Republican speaker o
Photos by Jake Burghart I’m not one of those guys who corners folks at parties to rant at them about biodiesel or calls people “fucking idiots” for being skeptical about global warming. But I should a
Did you ever wonder why it can take so long to buy a car? Have you questioned whether the salesperson really has to check with his manager to get a deal approved? Do you want to know why a car salesman can't just give you his best price upfront? We know there are things about car shopping that seem…
State lotteries that participate in games such as Mega Millions were sold to the public as enterprises that would benefit schools with millions of dollars in proceeds a year. So has public education r
Donate I n mid-January, pollsters for the Washington Post and ABC News asked a representative sampling of Americans the following question: “ Obama has been president for about three years. Would you say he has accomplished a great deal during that time, a good amount, not very much, or little or…
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