Drip
Not sure what to think of this new service from Kickstarter (seems like a competitor to Patreon). But I like the bit about portability.
Read moreTalking It Out
It is safe to say – and I’m willing to go out on quite a limb here – that a person who straight-up admits that they would rather vote for a serial pedophile than a Democrat is not a person worth talking to, nor one whose opinions will be affected by discourse.” – Gin & Tacos
Read moreOh, Markdown
The Talk Show episode 205. @gruber & @hotdogsladies talk Markdown. Just gotta remember to convert to html. ;)
Read moreHe Never Fails to Amaze Me
“In one particularly egregious example, Mr. Cuomo’s administration forced the M.T.A. to send $5 million to bail out three state-run ski resorts that were struggling after a warm winter.” I don’t know if there’s anything Cuomo could do that would surprise me.
Read moreOMG, 9 to 5
“They are really good engineers, really indispensable. And then they start to pull 9-5 days.” -Business Insider Back on August 6, Julie Bort wrote an article on software engineers who drop out of the super intense life style while remaining on payroll—resting and vesting. On one hand, this is infuriating: here are people making six or seven figures for barely doing any work. How unfair is that in a world in which many, many people are scrapping by on two or three jobs? Yet, the important part of this article (which Blot doesn’t address) is the completely unhealthy relationship Americans have to work. Blot starts the article with an anecdote about a Facebook engineer deciding to rest and vest after waking up one morning and vomiting over the idea of going to work. And we’re supposed to be critical or envious of this person? For all the backsliding that is happening in this society, unions fought for sane working hours, recognizing that one cannot live one’s life if one is always on the job. Yet today we glorify that life style. How courageous, how admirable is the coder who spends 14 hours a day at work. They are truly the…
Read moreDollar, Dollar Bills
Was just listing to Core Intuition; Daniel and Manton were talking about Apple turning the corner with $26 million in profit. If I did the math right, last quarter Apple made more than that in revenue per hour.
Read moreGoogle and Https
Dave Winer seems angry at Google for privileging sites that use https. They have the impure motive of making sure readers see their ads and not injected ads from ISPs. I don’t really care why Google is doing it. I’m just happy that my browsing is becoming more secure.
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