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Medium really botched the paywall approach and I couldn't possibly agree with you more. It is so inconsistently applied and quite honestly I can't justify spending 5 dollars a mont…

I am a little unclear on what the editorial bent of this is. Are they trying to use this as another way to say that Amazon unfairly compensates workers? If so, it seems like a chea…

I don't know if best is the right word, but he is definitely one of the best. Some of the things I think really make him stand out are his storytelling, his flow, and his charisma …

my apologies, i'm in a terrible mood and taking it out on strangers on the internet.

http://www.snipe.net/about/ edit: removed cheap shot about motivation.

And this new reputation economy will only be as good as the cultural biases of the engineers of the technology. Which could net us a worse situation than there is currently.

Also not terribly excited about this. But i should also probably just move on from posting here. Not a big contributor and have found that overall there's a huge echo chamber dynam…

I realize that, I made my comment towards this being a metaphor and I still stand by it.

the brain having a programming language would have to be based on a lot of assumptions that not everyone is willing to make.

> If a 10-year-old can become an ace web programmer, why can’t a liberal arts graduate? Brain plasticity. Next.

guess you'll just have to sustain yourself on real food till then :)

If some folks were just trying to pay the bills, working in government or biotech would be fine. What kind of bills are we talking about? I think it's more that sex and photo shari…

This is why I am just utterly confused about what people are willing to do to "solve a problem" or "jump on a trend". From a planning perspective, do users have to set this up with…

American Community Survey data is practically valueless. There, I said it. Symbolically, it may be interesting. When applied to cases like this, the conclusions one can draw are la…

care to share some of that evidence with the rest of us?

I'm not sure I understand what is trying to be communicated here. Edit: OK I guess you click on the drop icon in upper right hand corner (I'm on mobile), then you get some context.…

but the question remains: Are social media art? are programmers of social media artists? I do not doubt there are programmers that are artists and programs or implementations of pr…

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

is this a joke?

This is amazingly(!) ham-fisted on the part of NBC. everyblock.com was pretty vibrant from what I could tell. And being forced to shutter overnight is about as unprofessional as it…

This may sound pendatic, but Accidental Empires is a must read, even after all these years. Particularly if you did not live through the initial rise of the personal computing indu…