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I think the truth of this article depends on the size of your team. If you're hiring only one to a few developers, it's likely that you need your employees to self manage. They nee…

It's always disappointing when people think that a fashion company is mutually exclusive with a company that makes well-designed products.

Things that make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills: how surprised people are that there's a future beyond screen interfaces. Aren't things posted to Hacker News supposed to be by…

Oh, but I should add that it is cool to see something headlining as "user testing" making its way up the HN ranks.

I agree with what I think Boriss' point is – that our interfaces are not natural. They require us to build a new system of patterns to match with encountered interfaces of a simila…

I will never use an application that makes me tell it my salary on the first page.

Regardless of the Thiel Fellowship, this is the guy that I would want on the inside taking academic ideas from research to revolution. Ito represents a kind of energy and enthusias…

"The first thing you notice about Kiip CEO Brian Wong is how decidedly un-CEO he actually looks...In nerdy black glasses and a halfway zipped navy hoodie (flecked with kaleidoscope…

I've been approached by someone interested in working together on one of their startup ideas. We haven't discussed it yet, so I have no sense of my actual interest. However, in the…

You don't need to own an Apple product to use MobileMe, it is device agnostic. But you do need to give Apple money for the service itself.

The Michael Jordan approach, however, is one that is as aptly applied to entrepreneurship as it is to optimizing your abilities and success in any realm. He's created a product cal…

Interesting that this is out of the MIT Media Lab, since the Minority Report interfaces were based on earlier work there by another guy, who has since spun it into the spatial oper…

So...we agree. My point is that where some of the other people mentioned had their masters degrees in CS, Jobs seems to have been more of a business-inclined hobbyist who really li…

Well, Apple could be a counterpoint if we're just talking about current CEOs. Steve Jobs has never been revered for his electronics skills, and it seems he kind of snuck in the bac…

I find it strange that Wired gives Grooveshark a shout out for allowing people to "sample any song you want before you buy," since the "before you buy" is totally assumed. I love G…