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The only time i would stop using turntable would be if there were commercials.

Blaming technology isn't going to change the fact that journalism is still broken. Folks like John Gruber and Matt Drudge make a ton of revenue by serving their readers. They have …

The skills are critical for any front-end designer, not just the ones in startups. Companies that embrace skilled designers as their culture compete much better than others.

I've watched my friends work hard in basement for months when they were forming a band. All they got from that work was the chance to play for tips at a local bar. There are a lot …

Building apps for the iOS marketplace is "spec" work. I'm working for free until someone decides to purchase my app. Bootstrapping a startup is "spec" work. No one is paying founde…

This is the internet, the best and truthiest will always float up eventually. Having a poorer experience is a perpetual compromise for something that can be corrected by vigilant r…

What an amazing corporate culture, dogs, toys, babies, moms, young and old.

Hitler was a vegetarian

The kinect and MS is going to play an interesting role in NUI. The surface 2 is also still on the way. It's exciting to see that MS still innovates.

I sometimes worry too about a substitute good for humans, but I believe that many entrepreneurs will exploit the abundance of unemployment to fuel their visions. This reoccurring p…

Creative destruction is a sign of great progress. There was a time when America was almost all factory workers and a time before that when America was mostly farmers. While it is s…

I would like to see a survey on how many people actually WANT to be founders based on race/sex compared to the percentage of the population that ARE. This article assumes that ever…

In this article, it says that the majority of founders in SV are immigrants: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/28/west.immigration/index...

You're out of your mind if you think that a pair of hippies could build the world's biggest tech company. It's always an uphill battle no matter who you are. The world isn't fair; …