johnpaultitlow

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  1. Using spreadsheets, TextWrangler and "other kludged-together applications," Webb analyzed all of this and more, manually collecting data as she went. In the process, she reverse engineered online dating and met her…

  2. It's great that iOS works the way it does out of the box, but annoying that power users can't dig into the settings and start tinkering with things in ways that we've been able to do for decades on PCs. It's infuriating…

  3. In our weird new world, it's not uncommon for young people to achieve this new type of psuedo-fame, fueled solely by social media. And we're not just talking the type of notoriety you can get from a viral YouTube video,…

  4. If they install it, they'll have nightmares. If they don't, it's just a useless box that will sit on their shelf and periodically remind them that you don't particularly care for them.

  5. While not as horrifyingly Orwellian as it could be, the fact that the biggest company in U.S. history makes decisions about which content is too "objectionable" for its customers is unsettling.

  6. While most of their former classmates struggled to find jobs in a beleaguered industry, the trio decided to give themselves job titles. Instead of “freelance writer” or “blogger”, they anointed themselves “co-founders”…