On privacy, hashing, and your customers -
Try not to be a dick; check that you’re not being a dick; be less of a dick.
Jeff Atwood leaving Stack Exchange -
Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange have been wildly successful, but I finally realized that success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure.
I doubt there’s a single developer out there today whose job - life - hasn’t been improved by Stack Exchange.
Stripe’s aim, the cofounders agree, is to make accepting payments online as simple as embedding a YouTube video.
I’d argue Stripe don’t want to be the next PayPal. They want to be better.
I can’t wait till these guys launch in the UK.
Github's Zach Holman on The Apple Voice -
Most startups don’t have the luxury of meeting every one of their customers. They can’t explain the case for their product in-person.
Instead, we market our product with words. We craft those words with our voice.
Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement -
U.S. Patent No. 7,634,504 - this patent was filed in 2006 (issued 2009) and covers displaying grammatically complete sentences while programming a thermostat.
It is utterly incomprehensible that such a patent could ever be issued.
Race to drill into Antarctic lake -
Is this not how horror films start?
Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second
Apple developer documentation viewer for iOS -
Giving this a try. Seems quick and stable thus far. Downloads a copy of whichever docsets you choose, so it also works offline. It’s currently restricted to publicly available docsets, so no beta docs. Open-source and BSD-2 licensed.
Egypt football violence leaves many dead in Port Said -
74 dead and the first adjective out of your mouth is ‘unfortunate’?
Interesting that the Barnsley man’s greeting of choice - ‘cock’ - has been omitted from the BBC’s list.