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I want to say that hacker groups haven’t declined, it’s just that now they don’t call themselves hacker groups, they call themselves startup companies.

This. In its 35+ years Apple created - or at least codified - the personal computer, the mp3 player, and the modern smartphone. I think it's closer to a big new product category ev…

Historically it has been easy to claim that programming is merely incidentally complex but hard to actually produce working techniques that can dispel the complexity. The truth is …

I understand that's what the Kickstarter team is most interested in. But what would that accomplish besides causing all the companies to simply move to the next crowd-sourcing site…

According to the article a majority of the backers and a significant majority of the money was at or above the $300 mark

"a $2.4 million early-stage investment in what would become a $2 billion business in a year and a half, in return for 0.0% equity" No. Those backers weren't investing in a company,…

"Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with others" The author added this in the rewrite, but I think this is exactly the kind of filler that needs to be avoi…

Education is a business and college administrators want to spend as little as possible. Radically changing things and incorporating new technologies costs money. There are plenty o…

I'm skeptical that an insight can be both simple enough to spontaneously occur during a social outing AND complicated enough to require multiple pages of notes just to capture enou…

Yeah. Party guy isn't busy, he's disorganized.

Agreed. It's generally a good idea to write readable code. There's a reason why explicitness and redundancy are common in natural language.

We actually have studies on this. Amateur photographers have worse awareness of a scenic environment than people who just look around. And people who just look around have worse aw…

"The tech community has made a mistake in rushing to judge one of its most influential members based on an article behind a $399 paywall." Did the tech community do that? I thought…

I understand Enron tried the same thing. These people are idiots. http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-June/000884.html

In interaction design we say that you can't design an experience, but you can design for an experience. We know quite a bit about humans, the psychology they approach an interface …

I'm not sure what this is trying to be. If it's supposed to get people who know nothing about web to create pages, it should really have some handrails and tutorials (or at least l…

Pretty sure he does that too through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Quick look at the wiki page says that among many global health issues, the Foundation hands out hundreds…

Why in the hell would navigating a bunch of sequential screens full of huge icons be less of a pain than an applications folder? Thank god for application launchers in any case. An…