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Some jackass:

“Youngish people need structure,” he said, adding that they have small apartments and might not have a good place to work, anyway. He still offers flex time and lets workers leave at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays. 
“I think people have to be trusted,” Laermer said.  “But the working-from-home thing has to be on a per-person basis, and it can’t be very often. It just doesn’t work.”

So instead of having employees he can trust, he has them come to the office so he can watch them?

Om Malik:

And I can’t believe that in 2017 and the notifications have stayed dumb, and are still be used as away to goose daily active user numbers. And these are from companies that paint a future controlled and shaped by artificial intelligence.

I hate most non-messaging notifications with a passion.

Dave, for AgileBits:

And you need not worry about 1Password 7 for Mac, either, as it will continue to support standalone vaults just like version 6 does today.

Whew? This post would have been so much better if it weren’t for all the hyperbole to start the post. I’ve read this post several times now and all I can say is this: they are hell bent on pushing people to 1Password.com — just look at the amount of “yet” phrasing used throughout.

I’m going to start looking elsewhere. Not interested.

Om Malik:

It is time to let go of dogmas that have corrupted how our system itself works.

MIT Technology Review:

Teleportation has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. The technique relies on the strange phenomenon of entanglement. This occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, form at the same instant and point in space and so share the same existence. In technical terms, they are described by the same wave function.

So you’re telling me Transporters are actually suicide machines‽

Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai:

In other words, 1Password really wants you to stop using its local storage version, though Hicks also added that the company is not planning to “remove support for local/Dropbox/iCloud vaults from the software,” at least for now.

It’s a bit confusing what the fuck is going on with 1Password, but it seems as though sooner or later you are going to be forced to 1Password.com. At which point, they will no longer be the app I use.

Shoot me your suggestions.

David Vo:

Then, travelers saw the light. The textile gods extolled the virtues of merino wool. Could a natural fiber beat laboratory-born inventions like nylon and polyester? And at a price point of some $60 just for a t-shirt, is it worth paying this high price of admission to enter Merino Club? Let’s get stuck into the details.

The only reason you’re not wearing merino all day, is because you haven’t tried it yet.

Om Malik on downsizing his device:

Over past few months, I have been experiencing increasing pain in my left wrist and thumb. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night in extreme pain. I thought it was a broken bone or something like that. I mean it was painful and it forced me to visit my doctor According to my doctor is because of overusing my left thumb on the phone.

I love the argument he makes for buying a phone which fits your hands. I know exactly the pain he speaks of, because I had that with my iPhone 3GS. Those smaller phones always forced me to use just one hand, and my thumb felt like it was broke more than a few times.

Since switching to the larger plus model iPhones, I tend to use both hands on the device far more often — and I think that has alleviated this pain. I’ve only felt it once or twice in the past few years.

I do wonder what the long term solution here is.

Shawn Blanc:

My biggest quibble with Ulysses right now is the way it handles images. If the image is inline with a note, you see an IMG markdown tag. Or, an image can be attached to a note, but otherwise not shown inline. It’d be great to be able to have images displayed inline.

I see this complaint a lot. I don’t disagree with it, but I also don’t agree with it. When I am focused on writing — not having to scroll by a bunch of images makes editing much easier. However, when I am editing, sometimes I like to see the images to make sure they flow properly.

You can do this with previewing the page, which is nice, but then you can’t easily edit the text (especially not on iOS). I’d propose something like Slack’s collapse command, where you can toggle showing images inline with a keyboard shortcut. That would be killer.

M.G. Siegler:

In a weird way, I almost feel like the 10.5″ iPad seems more like a smaller 12.9″ iPad versus a larger 9.7″ one.