philosophy

Why we removed on-site comments.

January 16, 2012

We’ve thrown this around in our head for some time now, and we finally decided to pull the trigger and disable site comments. There was no particular event that forced us to do this, and we weren’t encumbered by moderation problems like much larger sites are. So why bother nixing comments? Over the past several [...]

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We’ll use the shit out of the iPhone 4S.

December 13, 2011

Paul Graham wrote a great piece on “stuff”, and how the trend of recent decades has been to amass an inordinate amount of it. It’s a message that some other bloggers have made as well, because there really is something to be said for the simplicity of having less stuff and living a more streamlined [...]

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Small, evolutionary changes are better.

June 14, 2011

In a response to Paul Thorrott on Apple not making giant leaps between major OS revisions, John Gruber points out the difference is clearer when you look at OS X from its first incarnation to today: With Mac OS X in particular, to my recollection, Thurrott has had this same take for every single major [...]

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A MovNat workshop retrospective.

April 27, 2011

We intended to write a comprehensive review of the one-day MovNat workshop we recently participated in, but realized that others have already done so, and that our overall impression isn’t much different1. In short, the experience was fantastic, despite the fact that we started the day with relatively cool weather and a rainy forecast. (This [...]

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Our paleo challenge.

January 11, 2011

While we’ve already been eating healthier in recent years than we used to, it wasn’t until we stumbled across the “hunter-gatherer” diet that we really started to evaluate our food intake. Our goal has never been to lose weight, but from an overall health perspective, we found it fascinating that western foods aren’t particularly good [...]

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A misguided philosophy for WikiLeaks?

December 2, 2010

Much is being written about the philosophy of WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, and naturally, most of it is in defense of material ending up on the WikiLeaks site. While there’s a lot worth commenting on, the more obvious logical flaws are easy to address. Wikileaks does not leak something like the “Collateral Murder” video as [...]

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