Makes sense. As more of the population ages, needs technology, lives longer but is also still interested in using technology, catering to this market will be both necessary and useful to companies.
Interesting. Though as mentioned the ratings of shows are largely skewed by time -- ie: because no one was reviewing shows from the 50s-80s at the time of airing, it's all viewed through nostalgia and history, so it skews to certain shows and avoids even reviewing the dreck.
When you get into the 90s and beyond, shows were being viewed and reviewed contemporaneously and therefore everything was covered and a greater range was covered so overall ratings for the period actually went down...
Nice analysis of the available data anyway. Also interesting to see the appearance of certain non-English language shows as well.
Interesting. A shame he wouldn't identify himself or his company in the piece -- it seems like he's quite successful now, so I don't really get the need for anonymity.
So much of this is doing exactly the things we do now, but with the added "bonus" of not moving physically at all? This will appeal to some people for sure, but I can only imagine the side effects of this little innovation...
I'd rather embrace VR for all the things you can't or wouldn't want to do -- insane stunts, daredevil stuff, things too violent or dangerous to really be contemplated (at least not on a day to day basis). And of course, this may have been the path Occulus was on before...
Maybe her argument is that she's less technical than the engineers (and therefore looked down upon unnecessarily, leading to this article), even if she has to be far more technical than the average person, just to get the job.
The only thing I don't like about the "Maker Movement" is the way so many talk about themselves as if they were the first people ever to do this sort of thing. Like handmade craft and technologies was something invented by Internet hipsters.
Seems like a game, or art project or something of that kind. It doesn't have to be overtly commercial to still be an elaborate ruse, and it's probably more fun if it's not particularly commercial.
This is mostly from people mistaking the search box for the address box and just putting in the URL there and not knowing there's an extra step in this that they could avoid.
Sounds like it has some similarities to what Automattic does -- http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ -- Though of course being a remote work company Automattic can implement it quite differently, and probably more fairly (remote work is much easier to fit into a current job more seamlessly, and if needs be, more secretly).
Nice. I think the CEO already knew his app sucked, so she didn't have to convince him of that, but obviously she convinced him she was the best person to fix it, and that's great.
They're catching on a fair bit in education -- they're fairly cheap and they do what students need for a lot less than stock standard Windows PCs that got ordered for years. For any more intensive computer user they could never be your "main machine" but I can imagine them having a use.
But others have said, they're hardly for the Hacker News crowd.
I agree it's perfectly possible to get somewhere as an entrepreneur without a college degree. But it's hardly detrimental to have one either.
And I'm kind of sick of the US-centric view that all college degrees cost $100,000+ -- many high quality degrees in other western countries cost as little as 10-20% of this figure (and often are paid for in a deferred payment scheme). As with so many things (like healthcare) it's just another area the US seems to have gone insane with.
Interesting. Seems from the link they don't own AllthingsD even though it's very much their thing. I presume they'll be negotiating with another company to start up something new but similar. Not unlike Nate Silver leaving the Times, except he owned his brand and site so could take it all with him.