Category: General
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The crusade against college
Recently, there’s been a lot of buzz in tech circles about college being a waste of time. It started with investor Peter Thiel’s creation of the Thiel Fellowship, which awards potential students technology & entrepreneurship mentorship and $100,000 of incubation money to work on their own projects. In an interview with the National Review, he […]
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A humble suggestion for HTML5 video
This is an embedded Flash video from latakoo Flight: If you’re viewing this post on an iOS device, or anywhere else where Flash isn’t supported, you’re not going to see the video. I’d dearly love to use the HTML5 video tag, which iOS devices do support, but I can’t – at least not without some […]
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Why you should not build an open source startup
Teambox’s post about why you should build an open source startup is doing the rounds right now. It’s a great piece, but I thought I’d reply with a few reasons why you might want to think long and hard about it: Free (as in speech) software has an accounting value of $0. Professional services typically […]
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Hacking culture
I’ve always thought that the term “the cultural sector” was a bit disingenuous, because it makes the assumption that science, engineering and everything else under its umbrella can’t for some reason be a part of “culture”. Ditto “creatives”: it doesn’t take much thought to disprove the conceit, but theatre, music, fiction writing and so on […]