Peter Hagen

With nothing more than an idea and a passion for making things happen, I started a new group on meetup.com called We Make the Internet, and began promoting the first social event at one of my favorite Cleveland breweries, Noble Beast. It was clear that the community was hungry for this kind of thing: about 40 people showed up to that first event.

Did... did Apple just introduce the equivalent of Unity's runtime install fee... but for all iOS app developers in the EU?!

weirdly my main reaction is gratitude to the OpenAI founders for actually creating a governance structure that committed them to sacrifice profits if the mission required it. no idea if that's what happened here, but at least we know the commitment had teeth. Show more

please take a moment to read Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's introductions of Stack Overflow.3 Did you notice what I did? Both describe Stack Overflow as the solution to a very specific problem: programming knowledge locked up in minds and forums whence it's difficult to retrieve. They also explain how they intend to solve the problem including... See more

The miracle of Ingenuity is that all of these commercially bought, off-the-shelf components worked. Radiation didn't fry the Qualcomm computer. The brutal thermal cycles didn't destroy the battery's storage capacity. Likewise, the avionics, sensors, and cameras all survived despite not being procured with spaceflight-rated mandates.

In the heady days of the millennial media startup boom of the 2010s, the sense that large social platforms would pay publishers for content and create a new class of lucrative digital media outlets was pervasive and unquestioned. And in those early years, no one knew which platforms would succeed. It is almost impossible to believe, but there was a... See more

Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people. That niche may grow to the point of being huge, like Facebook and WhatsApp. But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one. Every single social network is only... See more

I highly recommend this activity and format. You can start one yourself. It goes like this:

1. Choose where to walk — somewhere with lodging for 8 people every 15 km — where someone else can drive everyone’s bags from place to place.


2. Someone (local person or business) walks it all in advance to make sure it’s actually good. This person is the

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