We meet the most interesting people in the strangest places. After a long day at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 bouncing from meeting to meeting, I was on my way out to catch a cab home whenAbie Katzstopped me to ask for directions to the Disrupt after party. Not being one to act outside of kindness, I elected to walk with him there, all the while discussing who exactly he was and why it is that he was attending Disrupt....
My main gig iswriting marketing content, but I also wear lots of hats for an independent media criticism site calledUnwinnable. I’ve been managing their social media, writing articles for them, and serving as an editor for five years now. At Unwinnable, we use a classic-turned-modern publishing model. We have online articles, but our main operation is our magazine: a monthly PDF that you subscribe to like a print magazine. So we’re always looking for ways to make our subscribers’ experience better....
Your childhood dreams may have been crushed, butNASAcould still fulfill them. According toa new reportdiscovered bySpace.com, the space agency may soon need more astronauts — and you could be one of them. Possibly. The report reveals that NASA’s astronaut corps has shrunk from nearly 150 people to just 44. As the agency prepares to send humans to the Moon and Mars, officials are concerned that this cadre is too small....
Why does every developer think they are writing perfectly understandable code? Why is that same developer unable to decipher someone else’s code, lest maintain it? Because they’re all writing sloppy code that works. That is, code that works now but that is not very expandable or versatile due to its messiness. Except for Computer Scientists — they write beautiful code that doesn’t work. Reason 1: For Computer Scientists, coding is an art....
Professional social networking siteLinkedInhas announced a new feature todayon its blogwhich lets a company post status updates. The company had this to say: We are excited to announce LinkedIn’s new company status updates, that will now let members receive further insights — breaking news about the company, employee moves, relevant job opportunities or the latest on their products and services including multimedia content — directly from the companies they follow....
