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Arrington is an arrogant bullying gasbag, so I don't care if he gets beat up in an interview. The rest of this piece is a lot more interesting: "This is mirror-tocracy not meritocr…

In April, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP). It sounded pretty crazy at the time: Facebook was proposing an open, commodity infrastructure for Web-scale infrastruct…

Meh...As other commenters have noted, Dropbox is not for anyone who values their privacy. Your files are not secure from Dropbox staff snooping, and they'll fink you off to the fli…

This is dumb. It's all about controlling your products that you own, and locking out the competition. Windows is a security disaster, and it doesn't matter how much duct tape and s…

This should be must-reading for everyone. Truly, turn the pestilential things off! TV is like crack for people who don't want to do drugs.

This is still a wide-open frontier for tech. I'd like to see more energy put into designing devices for helping less-than-perfectly-perfect humans

Nice tip, thanks! Vim is full of treasures :)

I like the approach this piece takes, as it avoids the usual 'learn $foo_language 'cos it's hot!' approach. I hire people who genuinely love their chosen work and who love open sou…