I miss the old days of forums and e-mail lists rather than Social Media. I co-moderated a VERY large, well known e-mail list that grew to a 6 figure membership. New members would be put on “moderation,” until we could see if their posts were quality. As we grew, we implemented a membership request survey to cut down…

I’m pretty amped up about this story.

I forgot to tag my reply as sarcasm. But no shitting, this is the exact type of bullshit behavior “stack ranking” encourages.  It becomes this “Publish or Perish” mentality that ultimately makes your product line an unmitigated mess.

“the smartphone in your pocket could outperform even a high-speed camera that costs well over $100,000"

If you want to make a steak dinner using Spam ‘meat’, then by all means have at it.

The whole calculation is interesting, but ultimately quite captain obvious. The kernel of the implication is that Mercury is on average the closest to each of the planets... because it’s the closest one to the sun, or the (approximate) centre of each planet’s orbit, and is never much further than half the diameter of…

It’s only click bait if you’re not a very deep thinker. It’s an exactly accurate headline.

Much like how Uranus is actually the planet we are “closest” to in a third way because this planet’s full of assholes.

Pluto [...] but it’s not a planet anyway, as defined by the International Astronomical Union. Please do not email me about this.

It’s how he rolls, yo.

Australia gained independence from the UK in 1901, in case you missed the news.

“iPhone” or “smartphone” for every other brand. Gotta give it to Apple, their marketing is pretty good.

Hell... I think he might be the reason they were desperate enough to get the other kid into college.

They have no problem spending $250K-$500K to get their kid into college. But God forbid you want to increase their taxes by less than that amount to make sure everyone has access to college.

The sight of that “Blunt” killed my high.

For my iPhone friends, they get stuck with SMS if they aren’t willing to use a cross platform messaging system, shrugs I don’t really care. It doesn’t by any means make me think that iPhone has some sort of premium messaging system when that happens, it just makes me think iPhone users have shitty messaging that…

I’m usually on the side of scientists here, but if those bastards don’t come out soon with a time lapse of this happening in the lab my head’s gonna explode. C’mon, they’ve got to have one somewhere. (The original article’s behind the Nature paywall.)

What in the hell is so magical about iMessage? I seriously don’t get people’s obsession with that product. It is just another messaging app. There are literally hundreds of em. And tons work better across platforms. 

Hope Apple enjoyed all the users that will abandon them because there is no more Spotify.