Working at Basecamp:
- 40 hours a week (32 in summer)
- work anywhere in the world
- make 90 percentile of SF level
- no managers, minimal meetings
- twice a year meetups
- allowed to work on side projects
- contribute to open source
- can’t talk politics at work
@dhh Meh. My iPhone does everything I want it to do. I like the ease of something that just “works”, effortlessly and securely. The jailbreakers and other tinkerers are just creating headaches for themselves IMO.
This is wild, and all built with #javascript! One of the cooler visalizations I’ve seen. Be sure to hold the up and down arrows on your keyboard as you move your mouse… https://t.co/lv9428tWwO
Doing maintenance on a friend's 2009 #MacBook Pro. Super impressed with the longevity of this battery. Look at that cycle count and the thing is still healthy! Nicely done building machines that last, @Apple.
Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research.
Iomega's Zip drive turns 25 this year. I took a look back at the life and times of Zip, including some odd brand offshoots, for How-To Geek: https://t.co/JS9eqyeT6c
Have you ever used a Zip drive?
To people who attend tech conventions: stop taking pictures of every slide in the sessions. You realize all these decks are made available afterwards, right? This blocks people’s view and makes you look generally dumb.