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Gabe Weatherhead, responding to the Amazon workplace hubbub, and specifically Jeff Bezos’ email regarding the matter: Second, sending a company email on the weekend implies that the company culture encourages working on the weekend and considers it completely normal.
Gabe Weatherhead, responding to the Amazon workplace hubbub, and specifically Jeff Bezos’ email regarding the matter:
Second, sending a company email on the weekend implies that the company culture encourages working on the weekend and considers it completely normal.
Romain Dillet reporting: “I don’t need new shoelaces, I need new shoes. I thought to myself, if I buy new shoes — they are work shoes, I only wear those shoes at work. If I buy new shoes, I’m committing to myself that I need them because I’m going to be there for a while.…
Romain Dillet reporting:
“I don’t need new shoelaces, I need new shoes. I thought to myself, if I buy new shoes — they are work shoes, I only wear those shoes at work. If I buy new shoes, I’m committing to myself that I need them because I’m going to be there for a while. I’m going to quit my job.”
Congrats to Myke and Stephen on a year in the books.
Dan Moren: This longevity goes hand in hand with the decline in specs that I wrote about last month. We’ll continue to use our devices as long as they accomplish what we want them to, not simply when specs suggest we “should” upgrade. I have a 2008 MacBook Pro still in service as a home…
Dan Moren:
This longevity goes hand in hand with the decline in specs that I wrote about last month. We’ll continue to use our devices as long as they accomplish what we want them to, not simply when specs suggest we “should” upgrade.
I have a 2008 MacBook Pro still in service as a home server, as it replaced my 2005 G4 Mac mini — and that happened just a few months ago. Apple really should be given credit for the longevity of their devices.
His Little Snitch rules for mimicking the ‘overcloak’ feature of Cloak is pretty awesome.
His Little Snitch rules for mimicking the ‘overcloak’ feature of Cloak is pretty awesome.
Quickertek has a sweet external battery pack for the new MacBook. It appears to charge the MacBook while it is running and adds 8-48 hours of battery life. The only downside? The price: $300. Still, I would love to get one of these.
Quickertek has a sweet external battery pack for the new MacBook. It appears to charge the MacBook while it is running and adds 8-48 hours of battery life. The only downside? The price: $300. Still, I would love to get one of these.
You know how, as an American, you just always assume that work cultures like the French just look at American workers and laugh. But thier laugh is both pompous and pitiful? That's how I think most American workers are going to view this article about Amazon workers. That system is going to implode.
You know how, as an American, you just always assume that work cultures like the French just look at American workers and laugh. But thier laugh is both pompous and pitiful? That's how I think most American workers are going to view this article about Amazon workers.
That system is going to implode.
Nice review of what is one of my favorite travel bags.
Nice review of what is one of my favorite travel bags.
Son of a bitch, where has this been my entire life?
Son of a bitch, where has this been my entire life?
MG Siegler on using the iPad as an only computer: If I have to take out my laptop to do even just one thing, why not just use it for everything? That’s the sticking point for me as well.
MG Siegler on using the iPad as an only computer:
If I have to take out my laptop to do even just one thing, why not just use it for everything?
That’s the sticking point for me as well.
Marco Arment: In a few years, after the dust has settled, we’re all going to look back at today’s web’s excesses and abuses as an almost unbelievable embarrassment. Hopefully, the worst is behind us. And it’s time to stop demonizing people who use tools to bring that sanity to their web browsers today. Good post.…
Marco Arment:
In a few years, after the dust has settled, we’re all going to look back at today’s web’s excesses and abuses as an almost unbelievable embarrassment. Hopefully, the worst is behind us. And it’s time to stop demonizing people who use tools to bring that sanity to their web browsers today.
Good post. I should note that Marco’s site has 7 scripts that Ghostery needed to block. UPDATED: At the time of pub listing Ghostery did show 7 scripts, however as of 08-13-2015 Marco’s site now shows just one for The DECK ads.
I recently disable Mint analytics from this site and switched to Piwik. Both still owned on my own server, but the latter supports Do Not Track and allows me to provide and opt-out button.
If you know a lot about cameras and photography, this post is most certainly not for you.
Costco, the big box membership discount retailer, has this brilliant plan: all the flashy electronics are up front. The big TVs playing sports, the computers, the iPads, and of course that large rectangular table containing the cameras. Cameras are the great universal equalizer: men and women, old and young, tech savvy and tech illiterate — they all flock to cameras. We all love pictures, we all think we can take better pictures — and you need a camera to get a picture.
So you stop at that table and see what Costco has to offer and you find that sub $500 dSLR staring at you. There it is. It’s bigger than what you have now so that’s good — that says pro — and it’s got a big brand name like Canon, Nikon, or Pentax.
It’s not pro-level, this you know, but hot damn will it make your pictures look better.
And who doesn’t want their pictures to look better?
Alphabet And here I thought that their naming schemes could not possibly get any worse…
Alphabet
And here I thought that their naming schemes could not possibly get any worse…
Android is taking a beating in the security arena lately. First that MMS vulnerability. Now reports that fingerprint data can be stolen from phones. And then there’s this story about how the iPhone is the best choice for most people from a security standpoint (with obvious caveats about iOS). And all this on my mind…
Android is taking a beating in the security arena lately. First that MMS vulnerability. Now reports that fingerprint data can be stolen from phones. And then there’s this story about how the iPhone is the best choice for most people from a security standpoint (with obvious caveats about iOS).
And all this on my mind as carriers are killing subsidies on smartphones — something which certainly plays a huge role in sales of Android devices.
This is a really great post on the coming content blockers for iOS. I personally cannot wait to get these. But it is going to be a massive change for the web, and bloggers specifically. For example: currently I run two analytics packages on this site (both in my own database, which I own), in…
This is a really great post on the coming content blockers for iOS. I personally cannot wait to get these. But it is going to be a massive change for the web, and bloggers specifically. For example: currently I run two analytics packages on this site (both in my own database, which I own), in Mint and Piwik. Now Mint doesn't honor “do not track” so every visitor not blocking that script is recorded. Piwik on the other hand does support “do not track” and so it won't track any browser with that option turned on, and it won't track those blocking the script either.
Why does that matter? Let me tell you why. Yesterday was a pretty typical day for the site, Mint tells me I had 949 unique visitors and 1,478 page views. That's a typical day for me. But what does Piwik tell me? It say I had 708 unique visitors and 1182 page views. So fewer unique visitors and fewer page views. Ad payouts are based on page views, by the way. And that's a dramatic difference if you rely on ads for money. The same people using do not track are likely to use content blockers — likely more people.
I'll be moving this site to just Piwik shortly and so my stats are going to drop like crazy, but I don't need those stats to make money with my site. And in fact you can use this site in Apple News (search for The Brooks Review and then scroll until you find it) with channels and everything laid out with no tracking from me.
Content Blockers and privacy in general is going to be a huge shift for every writer on the web. It's going to be fun.
The X30 is a camera that has always intrigued me, and if I didn't already have a Fuji I would be all over this. I'm in the market for a second camera now that my wife is constantly using the X100T, but I think there are better cameras for this price. More on that soon.
The X30 is a camera that has always intrigued me, and if I didn't already have a Fuji I would be all over this. I'm in the market for a second camera now that my wife is constantly using the X100T, but I think there are better cameras for this price. More on that soon.
BatteryBox Team: You’ll want to use Safari if you want to get the most battery out of your laptop.
BatteryBox Team:
You’ll want to use Safari if you want to get the most battery out of your laptop.
Unlike many, I know precisely what Twitter is worth to me: 180 page views.
Most people talk either about how much they love Twitter, how much they don’t understand it, or how stupid it is. These same people rarely understand the value Twitter has to them.
But I know exactly the value that Twitter has to me, and that value is whatever 180 extra page views is worth to you. That is to say, on average my posting a link to my personal Twitter account will bring between 100-300 additional page views onto that link.
After quitting Instagram when Facebook purchased the service, I have now rejoined with a new account. I have two thoughts to share today: A large motivation is to support my wife and view her work on the service. I think Instagram is likely a better network than Twitter. Meaning it is of more value to…
After quitting Instagram when Facebook purchased the service, I have now rejoined with a new account. I have two thoughts to share today:
I'll write more about this later, but hey: go follow me.
Let’s get all touchy, feely, for a moment — shall we?
Do you remember Netbooks? What about Ultrabooks? (They might even still use that name.) There’s also “convertibles”. “2-n-1s”. Or a dozen other names — my point being that when manufacturers other than Apple release a radical new hardware type for a computer, they tended to pay some marketing type gobs of money to name that computer class.
Clearly you use this piece of shit only for surfing the web, and since eMachine is taken, let’s go with Netbook. Ta-da.
The thing is, Apple never really played that game. They name the computers, but not the computer class, so with Apple it is just Desktop and Notebook. But the new retina MacBook deserves to be put in its own class, because it is most certainly not like any other notebook Apple — or anyone else for that matter — sells.