May 4, 2013

Pinboard is seeking a summer "Pintern"

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

The usual Pinboard humour aside, this sounds like a great internship.

May 4, 2013

Pinboard seeking a summer "Pintern"

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

The usual Pinboard humour aside, this would be a great internship.

May 4, 2013

Seeking a Summer Pintern

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

Usual Pinboard hilarity aside, this would be a great internship.

May 4, 2013

Seeking a Summer Pintern

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

Usual Pinboard hilarity aside, this would be a great internship.

May 1, 2013

Daring Fireball: Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing

Take away all the dogmatism and vitriol from the Gruber-haters and web-or-nothing folks both, and this is still the truth:

The dynamic remains unchanged. Web apps are the best way to reach the most possible people with the least effort; native apps are the best way to create the best possible experience.

The way I see most apps these days is as highly customised web browsers. Build your website, but if you want the happiest possible users, build native apps too.

Apr 30, 2013
Then, and many times since, he has teased me about my “love of decay.” This is the name we give to my obsession with the morbid, the ugly, and the just plain old: monumental buildings, ghost towns, ancient ruins that I find absolutely thrilling. Time rakes over them and yet elegantly exposes what within them is essential and well built.
Morgen Jahnke, Mechanically Attached
Apr 29, 2013

The Ultimate AI Brain

parislemon:

Steven Levy interviewed Ray Kurzweil about his new role at Google. On the topic of having the courage to follow your convictions:

Levy: What’s the biological basis for that kind of courage? If you had an infinite ability to analyze a brain, could you say, “Oh, here’s where the courage is?”

Kurzweil: It is the neocortex, and people who fill up too much of their neocortex with concern about the approval of their peers are probably not going be the next Einstein or Steve Jobs.

Apr 24, 2013
Mar 14, 2012
My muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race and if indeed she was, still I would not harness her to this tumbrel — this bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes. My muse may spook! May bolt! May abandon me completely!
Nick Cave, quoted in Letters of Note: My muse is not a horse
Mar 2, 2012
Had some fun playing with The Grix.

Had some fun playing with The Grix.

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