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February 16, 2013
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Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs – O’Reilly Radar
Microscopio de tres cuerpos (source: Biblioteca General Antonio Machado ). At the second RailsConf , David Heinemeier Hansson told the audience about a recruiter trying to hire with “5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails.” DHH told him “Sorry; I’ve only got 4 years.” We all laughed (I don’t think…
February 15, 2013
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With shared data plans, AT&T and Verizon are robbing us blind yet again
I’m sure you heard the news that in August, AT&T will join Verizon Wireless by offering its new shared data plans for families or just groups of people who would prefer to have one giant pool of monthly data to feed all of their devices. When we first heard late last year about the carriers’ plans…
February 14, 2013
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Will AT&T and Verizon’s shared data plans spur other carriers to adopt them?
After months of teasing, AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) unveiled its "Mobile Share" shared data plans just weeks after Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) did so via its "Share Everything" plans. Both plans are fairly similar, although AT&T does not require new customers or those who want to upgrade to a subsidized…
February 13, 2013
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Why I Prefer the Featureless App
At some point recently I realized the bulk of the apps I actually use on a daily basis are very simple. They don’t have a lot of features and they don’t have a lot of customization options. It turns out the featureless apps provide a system that works well for me. Two years ago our own Adam Pash…
February 12, 2013
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Change is needed on the CIRA Board – Part II | Random Bytes
Change is needed on the CIRA Board – Part II Category: Editorial I received a lot of feedback on my earlier post advocating for change on the CIRA Board . I thought it might be helpful to followup on a few of them. First, about my comments on Board diversity. Specifically; Canada is diverse, vibrant…
February 11, 2013
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BeatnikPad : Words
I wrote some stuff about how I’m cleaning up and simplifying. http://t.co/qNyfigpy
February 10, 2013
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The Simplicity Thesis | Fast Company
A fascinating trend is consuming Silicon Valley and beginning to eat away at rest of the world: the radical simplification of everything. Want to spot the next great technology or business opportunity? Just look for any market that lacks a minimally complex solution to a sufficiently large problem.…
February 9, 2013
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Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers – MarketBeat – WSJ
(The Q&A below is the first in a two-part series looking at high-frequency trading. Click here to read the second part.) Mark Cuban is best-known for his success as a businessman and pro basketball owner . But in the past few years, he has also gained a reputation as one of the most prolific critics…
February 8, 2013
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Announcing an audacious proposal by Dalton Caldwell
July 13, 2012 Announcing an audacious proposal The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. The responses to my post largely fell into two camps. One…
February 7, 2013
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What Twitter could have been by Dalton Caldwell
July 1, 2012 What Twitter could have been I remember when you could go to Twitter.com and see the global firehose on the front page. They had no traffic. The global feed was mostly employees and their friends talking to each other. When Twitter started to get traction, a year or two into their…
February 6, 2013
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Editor’s note: In this guest post, Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin argue why Twitter is undervalued. Naval was an early investor in Twitter and owns Twitter shares; Adam does not. They have not discussed the content of this article with anyone inside Twitter. The views expressed are their own. They…
February 5, 2013
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The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures . You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla . All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized. We are in a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly…
February 4, 2013
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Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts — Tech News and Analysis
June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley. At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple (s AAPL) announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina display and iOS 6. A few days later, Microsoft (s MSFT) announced Surface, a new tablet/computer…
February 3, 2013
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker | Psychology Today
Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, famously said: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." This notion found life beyond Nietzsche’s–which is ironic, his having been rather short and miserable–and it continues to resonate within American culture. One reason is that suffering, as…
February 2, 2013
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Canada’s vanishing tech sector – The Globe and Mail
If Research in Motion Ltd. is no longer Canada’s most valuable publicly-traded high tech company, what is? The answer may surprise you. You won’t find it in the S&P/TSX information technology index. Except for its stock market listing in Toronto and the fact that it’s registered in the Yukon, it is…
February 1, 2013
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When Internet Distractions Make Us More Efficient – NYTimes.com
THE Internet is a rabbit hole of distraction. It’s easy to wind up knee-deep in paparazzi photos of Beyonce’s new baby when you intended only to answer a few e-mails. But last week, I had a different experience. Stressed out, on a deadline, I was frustrated to the point of uselessness and began to…
January 31, 2013
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Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong – Anil Dash
I know I usually try to be a thoughtful tech writer, but sometimes, holy shit you guys. Twitter, because of their API, actually was a real-time protocol to connect various services in a novel way. I had debates with my other tech-nerd friends about whether Twitter could be one of the fundamental…
January 30, 2013
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Why you’ll always think your product is shit | @andrewchen
Lobby of the Pixar offices in Emeryville, CA “My product isn’t quite there yet.” You’ve said this before. We all have. Anyone working on getting their first product out to market will often have the feeling that their product isn’t quite ready. Or even once it’s out and being used, nothing will seem…
January 29, 2013
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With big Asana update, Facebook co-founder Moskovitz wants to kill email | The Verge
"We think email is becoming a counterproductivity tool," Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein told me yesterday. "Each email is an isolated random string of text without any context," he said. Rosenstein launched the team collaboration and productivity tool seven months ago with Facebook co-founder…
January 28, 2013
January 27, 2013
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Why are MVNOs so hot right now? Thank the carriers — Mobile Technology News
Virtual operators are sprouting up like weeds in a garden – except these weeds are starting to look a lot more attractive than the rose beds they’re enveloping. These mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) essentially resell the voice and data services of big operators, but often at much lower…
January 26, 2013
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Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker
Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of material. Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar…
January 25, 2013
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The Curse of Political Purity by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Roberto Unger, descended from a famous Brazilian family, is a respected philosopher, a famous political activist, and a professor at the Harvard Law School (tenured there, thirty-six years ago, at the unusually young age of twenty-nine). He has many just grounds for being famous. But he is best…
January 24, 2013
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Why I Hate Dreams by Michael Chabon | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
An image from Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland I hate dreams. Dreams are the Sea Monkeys of consciousness: in the back pages of sleep they promise us teeming submarine palaces but leave us, on waking, with a hermetic residue of freeze-dried dust. The wisdom of dreams is a fortune on paper…
January 23, 2013
January 22, 2013
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Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity – Health – The Atlantic
Yes, caffeine helps. But new research shows that the moderate noise level in busy cafés also perks up your creative cognition. Global X/ Flickr PROBLEM : To optimize creativity, how quiet or noisy should your workspace be? Media Multitaskers May Have Sharper Senses Bilingualism May Boost Attention,…
January 21, 2013
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Daring Fireball: Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
Watching the Microsoft Surface event video , I sensed uneasiness. Not panic, but discomfort. Some will argue that I’m simply spoiled by Apple’s on-stage polish, but Monday’s Microsoft event struck me as rushed and severely under-rehearsed. Ballmer offered nothing but blustering bromides, and nothing…
January 20, 2013
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Most new gTLDs could be closed shops | DomainIncite – Domain Name News & Opinion
Most new gTLDs could be closed shops Kevin Murphy ,June 21, 2012, 16:12:11 (UTC), Domain Registries ICANN’s new generic top-level domain program could create almost 900 closed, single-user namespaces, according to DI PRO’s preliminary analysis. Surveying all 1,930 new gTLD applications, we’ve found…
January 19, 2013
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What’s .Google want with 101 new .domains, anyway?
It’s easy to dismiss Google’s big play for a slice of the expanding Internet domain universe as just another side project from the Googleplex. Perhaps too easy. Google, we learned last week, has applied for 101 domains — or, more precisely, 101 generic top-level domains, or gTLDs — and the number…
January 18, 2013
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York Times One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael, to a Florida elementary school for the first day of what…