How did I now know about this before now? (thanks Charles)

I’m subscribed to The Verge now instead of Gizmodo or Engadget, but the criticism here is pretty fair. Honestly, I’ve never read any of these sites for the prose or viewpoint, I just skim the pictures and facts. By the definition of what they are (broad coverage), the only way they could have strong opinions would be to promote individual writer’s voices that champion/focus on specific verticals and companies.

(thanks Joel)

Reminds me of something I read last week. If your usage of a service/product doesn’t align with the way that service/product makes money, it’s likely your use case isn’t going to be a top priority long term.

Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.

Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of ‘exit event’ is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.

This is such a great post. (thanks Scott)

Some users utilizing the iPhone 4S and/or iOS 5 have reported issues connecting their Instagram accounts to Twitter. Please follow these troubleshooting steps in order to fix the issue:

1. Exit Instagram and open the Settings application.
2. Locate the Twitter setting.
3. If there are any accounts listed tap to select them and then tap Delete Account from the bottom of each account’s page.
4. Open Instagram and navigate to Profile > Edit Share Settings > Twitter to connect Twitter again in Instagram.

Why us Instagram the only app on my iPhone with this “problem”?

Real men never define acronyms; they understand them genetically.

(thanks Shawn)

This is brilliant. (thanks Shawn)

Well illustrated. (thanks Dougal)

These are quite good… (thanks Shawn)

So awesome. (Thanks Dave)

In his blog post, Reed apologized for not communicating well, not for having made the wrong decision.  I agree with him on both counts.

Interesting take. It’s always smart to remember that we on the outside have a lot less of the information that decisions are based on – especially when those decisions don’t seem to make sense.

(thanks Dave)

You’ve heard it before, that future-you is also a different person. While that’s true, it doesn’t have the emotional weight of an actual different person working on your code.

So the lesson I’ve learned is this: that other person is out there, and there’s a good chance I already know him or her. I want that person to be happy when they go to work on my code. I want them to not curse my name and the horse I rode in on.

Looks like Brent is doing a good job of this.

To return sanity to the software industry – one of the few industries still going strong in America – direct the patent office to cease issuing software patents and to void all previously issued software patents.

The registration step is a bit of a hassle, but the verification email does show up after a few minutes.

(thanks Aarron)

This is brutal; and brilliant. (thanks Eric)