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Blade Runner is different because of the attention it received due to the "Final Cut" version that came out in 2007. If it hadn't been for that, references to it would probably be …

> Maybe this speaks to my bias against people who bend reasonable rules for profit. I share the same "bias" (I would actually refer to it as "normal thinking", but hey…) and think …

I don't know why you're being downvoted for that; your interpretation, while uncharitable, is still most likely the correct one, given Apple's history. Not to mention the games mar…

There is a big difference between a simple meeting and the overly-gimmicky nonsense ritual that is known as the "standup". I've even seen standups where people are forced to hold a…

> Why Apple doesn't do streaming... Uh, yes they do, quite well in fact: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/11/apple-itunes-radio-pa... Already bigger than Spotify just six months…

You wrote all that and didn't even notice that Apple already has a streaming service that is larger than Spotify? http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/11/apple-itunes-radio-pa...

You just described this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y

> I don't remember ever noticing it in a search engine result. And yet it's easily shown that Google highly values MetaFilter in its results: http://www.metafilter.com/134827/New-S…

There is a prisoner in the US Federal system who has been in solitary confinement for 27 years : http://www.peteearley.com/thomas-silverstein/ A court recently ruled that his condi…

Yeah, and this is the place to read them all!

There is a weird hivemind effect on display here and in other various Silicon Valley discussion circles where there is an unstated but very solid agreement that certain companies a…

I've always found a lot of the anti-regulation, pro-"disruption" rhetoric in startup culture to be short-sighted, over-simplified, and at times just outright boneheaded, but... Scr…

Yep. There will never be another video or audio streaming startup after today. Doors closed, ladder pulled up behind them, that's it, finished. The ones that exist today are all th…

Not bad for someone who started out as a spammer: http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...

Stories like this one and Glenn Reid's essay[1] about working with Steve on iMovie seem to be vastly more informative than any movie or book on SJ.[2] One of the biggest takeaways …

"Airbnb's website tells people to check local laws and their leases. A specific section on San Francisco explains the prohibition on short-term rentals and links to various city co…

Well yeah, they've got a valuation to worry about. They are not going to let a little something like the law get in the way of that.

I think it's simply a branding issue. "gfycat" is a catchier name which also hints at the GIF-related features. I have a pretty good idea of what it does from the name alone. "Medi…

Don't worry, he's got his own strategy to keep programmers' salaries down: http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerbergs-self-serving-immigration-...

> I used [Homebrew] to install ImageMagick (the only OS X tool I know of where you can resize pictures on the command line)… There's the built-in command "sips" that comes on every…

The passage you quoted is pretty much the same argument that gets thrown around whenever professional athletes go on strike. Yes, they are already very highly paid, but in the end …