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I don’t want to just “me, too”, but I’ve literally had a career pivot to a role at Amazon Devices because I was able to bootstrap enough knowledge about building devices from Adafr…

Why stop at the Fed? Reduce executive salaries for all banks. For executives at all corporations. Trickle down compensation, already.

Why does their website have a photo of the iOS App Library feature?

I was seriously considering this until I remembered something. Didn’t Tennessee pass a law saying they’d stop abortion in the event of rape, incest, even to save the mother’s life?…

Any plans to standardize agencies tech stacks? Is that even a good idea?

It’s a no-win situation for Americans who are forced to pay $10,000,000,000 annually to fund an agency to spy on us and find “terrorists” or $160,000,000,000 annually for wars if t…

When I moved to SF I knew next to nobody. I worked freelance at a coworking place and went to hackathons. Most of my SF friends are from these social environments. Having peers and…

> We all mess up, but only the best ones will deal with it professionally and learn from it. This. I don't regret my life's many failures. I regret the times I've flamed out, blame…

I’m not clever enough for Coffeescript. I wish the examples were written in such a way that if I showed it to coworkers half of them wouldn’t roll their eyes.

Typography is pretty awful on Android in general. Both Roboto and Droid Sans are nightmare Frankenfonts. Font rendering on Android is bulky, blocky, and fails to consider how human…

Good catch. I wonder why they chose that approach. They’re smart people and I’m sure there’s a good reason.

"Patent law is a game of kings."

Is it even feasible to attempt to block ash? They can block the port, but users can set up sah on any port. What level of monitoring would be necessary to detect a user's traffic w…

Remember when Sony made inspirational products that everyone wanted?

I'm surprised that the ad sevices aren't smarter. Wait until on wifi, cache a bunch of ads, share those ads amongst all the apps that use your service. Is this feasible?

I'm not surprised. Even thugh I added scripts to defeat their paywall my viewing habits have changed from around five articles a day to five per month.

Exactly! I once wrote NYT feedback asking, “how much would I need to pay for a no-ad version?” Their response was insulting. Essentially quoting the digital subscription rates with…

I like iMessage, but it can be confusing. I send a message from my Mac or iPad and replies show up in my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. If I left the sound on for all my devices it becomes…

*institutional knowledge about investment, growth, scaling, etc. This might always be the case for East Coast startups. You start a business, you need investors that understand you…