“I ’m leaving the company in two weeks,” Dick Costolo said abruptly, hisface stricken, his fingers banging the wood-slab table before him.Costolo, the bald and lithe chief executive of Twitter , was s
Share The term “gaslighting” comes to us from a play called “Gas Light,” written in 1938 by British playwright Patrick Hamilton. The play focuses on an abusive husband in the 1880s who convinces his w
Keymaster May. 27, 2016 at 1:31 pm Post count: 2368 Anonymous Inactive May. 27, 2016 at 1:48 pm Post count: 1166 #486325 Good stuff SR. Really excited to see what Vitale can do in this offense. Please
Today Twitter, the microblogging service dedicated to making sure that people can easily be harassed without repercussion, announced some changes they’re planning on rolling out over the next few mont
Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example, has been successfully selling and s
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Post. The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be la
S ince 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted a survey to “monitor the financial and economic status of American consumers.” Most of the data in the latest survey, frankly, are less than earth-
Libby Nelson is Vox's policy editor, leading coverage of how government action and inaction shape American life. Libby has more than a decade of policy journalism experience, including at Inside Highe
Published in Making Instapaper · 13 min read · May 17, 2016 -- TL;DR: What follows is a long (good Instapaper material), highly-technical post about re-building Instapaper’s full-text search feature.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. 7 min read · May 14, 2016 -- William S. Burroughs — Naked Lunch I started
Last night, I swiped my iPhone awake during a commercial. I had no particular destination in mind; it was an absent-minded liminal shift between two of the many screens that constantly, quietly invite
UI development as a first-class citizen The single hardest part of front-end development at any scale is making changes to code and understanding all of the resulting visual and behavioral effects tha
In bed before the sun sets. Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo Summer is right around the corner, which means I’ll soon undergo my annual metamorphosis into the monster of a parent who drags her ki
Chris O'Meara/Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — First-year Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter keeps an array of interesting mementos around his office, starting with a collection of 12 helmets
The single responsibility principle applied to CSS Written by on CSS Wizardry . Table of Contents Having just spoken at the Front-Trends conference in Warsaw , I’ve decided to expand on something whic
This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple’s actual role in podcasting today and what, exactly, big producers are asking fo
Operation Trump Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. Photo-Illustration by Bobby Doherty On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald T
Summary: Front-end style-guides help efficient design and testing, and enforce UI consistency. We present 8 style-guide requirements and 25 common components. By Page Laubheimer Page Laubheimer on 201
Collaborative Notes from 2016 Converge SE in Columbia, SC Share Sign in This version of Safari is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser . File Edit View Insert Format Tools Extens
Call me crazy, but I think Google has the best music app in the world. Advertisement Advertisement Google Play Music is my top pick after months of research and testing. It was a surprising conclusion
Trump speaking at a rally in Fountain Hills, Ariz., on March 19. Credit... Devin Yalkin for The New York Times Feature Donald Trump, American Preacher Building a congregation for his prosperity gospel
In 2010, the web died. Or so said the publication you're reading right now . In a WIRED cover story that summer, then-editor-in-chief Chris Anderson proclaimed the demise of the World Wide Web---that
Hear the one about the unemployed middle-aged guy who tripped and fell into the new economy? An exclusive sneak peek at the book “Disrupted.” If you made a movie about a laid-off, sad-sack, fiftysomet
Late into the night on St. Patrick's Day, Netflix hosted a makeshift “war room” at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Engineers and product wranglers sat loosely around a long, U-shaped format
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Let’s start with the caveats: no, Tesla did not sell 276,000 Model 3’s in three days; 1 that is the number of fully refundable pre-orders that required a deposit of “only” $1,000. 2 And yes, Tesla has
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this w
Today, I sent this to the first beta users that signed-up to Blendle, my journalism startup backed by The New York Times and Axel Springer. To our beta users , Today, Blendle starts its beta in the Un
Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. There were a few books that my friends lent m
The fortunes of the Mac platform drastically changed 10 years ago, with the release of a simple CD. On Sept. 13, 2000, Apple released its Mac OS X Public Beta, a limited-time trial run of the ultra-mo
Senator Bernie Sanders greets supporters at a campaign rally outside the New Hampshire State House on November 5, 2015. Reuters/Brian Snyder A year ago, concerned that ordinary citizens would be locke
FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board. DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice.
AS DONALD Trump observed during a visit to The Post on Monday, we have been critical of his candidacy, so give him credit for agreeing to sit down with us and answer questions for more than an hour .
Bhaskar Sunkara is very eager not to turn into one of the bosses he wants to overthrow. So he’s lugging copies of Jacobin, the socialist magazine he founded, up the stairs himself. The magazine’s issu
Though Sanders remains likely to lose, his ideology may prevail in the long run. Illustration by Barry Blitt On February 8th, the day before the New Hampshire primary, Bill Clinton stepped onstage to
There was once a time when most Americans took streetcars to work every day . Nowadays, 85 percent of workers drive. And although a few different factors fueled this transition, the biggest one may ha
The woman was young and thin, with shiny long hair and a European accent. Sitting in a parenting class at the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center last fall, she described what she had done to
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