Another thing to charge every day? Seriously? If it really does reduce the time we spend looking at our phones…maybe my wife will get me one for father’s day ;-). Also see this interesting comparison to Disney’s MagicBand.
Why do we still keep our profiles on this spammy, privacy-sucking network?
Parks and Recreation became something really great by the end. I often compare the show (unfairly probably) to Tina Fey’s 30 Rock. Where as 30 Rock’s main character became increasingly pathetic and pointless, Parks and Rec’s main characters became more serious, more hopeful, more ambitious, and more funny too.
The iPhone 6 is the best phone available right now. But this seems like the best Android imitation, if you’re into Android. (I wouldn’t pony up for the ‘edge’ version though.) Making a new OS successful from scratch (meaning have it be widely adopted) is a remarkable achievement. Read some new tidbits in this recent article: the rise of android.
It seems it’s always the community that’s most valuable. “I used to think the hobby was ridiculous and crazy, and I attended the Chicago Seminar led by the Frugal Travel Guy in 2010 with zero expectations,” Aucello recalls. “I was blown away by the community. I couldn’t believe there was a whole culture of people who were just as nerdy as I was about collecting credit card points.”
“In the past few years, two things have happened: a dramatic rise in online hostility, and a growing awareness that the lovely sense of privacy engendered by communicating via a computer is a catastrophic illusion.”
Yes, knowing a little history comes in handy sometimes. We don’t necessarily need to convince more kids to go into STEM, we just need better career paths for those that do. We always need better scientists and engineers and a public with some basic understanding and appreciation for STEM.
“Men who had more wealth and power might have had more to offer to women.” Revolutionary insight here.
Trust your gut, or rather, trust the honed intuition of highly experienced and talented people. Some things can’t be quantified and processed.
Lazy? Check. Need to do something sane with my (little) savings? Check. This strategy makes sense to me, especially after looking at the total returns for 8 lazy portfolios, couch potato cookbook, and other sources. I think I might be convinced to get past my paralysis, pick a strategy, and implement it.
Like for many, the “official” biography of Jobs by Walter Isaacson was deeply disappointing. Clearly clueless about technology in general, he also missed the emotion that we all knew was there. At the time I wished that David McCullough had got the job; not as ridiculous an idea as you might think. This book, finally, gets it right, and is a must read.
I love looking at the original pages of famous web sites. Useful things don’t have to be pretty.
Nice historical viewpoint. A pleasant in many ways discussion of quantum information science and computing.
Pretty clear evidence now that you should stay away from processed foods, eat protein and a lot of healthy fiber (ie vegetables), every day. But OMG is it hard. Also see recent study on the effects of preservatives on obesity.
The success of games is so unpredictable and fleeting.
“The GIF really was our official response.”
Everything will be done (or at least will be able to be done) through messaging.
Don’t be afraid, read it anyway. “Here I indulge in wide-ranging speculations on the shape of physics, and technology closely related to physics, over the next one hundred years. Themes include the many faces of unification, the re-imagining of quantum theory, and new forms of engineering on small, intermedi- ate, and large scales.”
People are not going to stop reading in bed. We need a “dark screen” option, widely implemented in operating systems and on the web, that offers minimal light viewing. I for one have triple tap to invert colors set on my iPhone, but it doesn’t work great. There are real accessibility issues here too. Let’s start it now: the dark screen movement.
Will this video be the next Hitler meme. When will someone make a create your own site for the spanish engineer? I’m waiting, seriously.