toddmorey

There's a decent amount of innovation that can make the assistants more efficient, so you can improve profitability without driving down wages. But there's also something else: Since a high …

Thanks! Typo fixed. And very interesting thoughts on the world becoming more social. I wonder if that's bringing not only more attention to autism, but also creating a more challenging dynamic. T…

Very interesting read. Need to spend more time with it and think on it some more. My son, though he's yet to have a conclusive diagnosis, is very likely on the autism spectrum, as he's a bri…

I think they are doing the right thing and exerting a lot of effort and eating a lot of cost to make right for their customers. Which makes me feel better about the ownership experience but nervous ab…

I hear you, but it's important to note that it appears that Mercedes (a storied German luxury car with proven technology) currently has an even a lower reliability rating. That makes me think it&…

I'm not 100% sure it means people are doing less searching in general, though. I still search a lot with my phone, but rarely using Google. Instead I search Yelp for businesses, search Twitter fo…

Right. And those tests and regulations exist in the interest of public health, not product benchmarking. So the issue is bigger than lying about some performance metric to compare more favorable to co…

I think the downfall of brutalism is that the architects were working on the wrong scale. Looking at these photos, some of these buildings look fantastic from afar, but the close up photos reveal the …

'dfgh' on the keyboard have really strange optics in San Francisco. It almost looks as if their baselines aren't aligned, but they are. But visually, the g looks low and the f looks hig…

I thought this was a bit of marketing genius on Porsche's part to capture some media attention. I saw a lot of headlines that read "New Porsche charges twice as fast as a Tesla". Of cou…

Yeah, to me the big surprise was that this car isn't coming within the next two years. I don't think it should surprise anyone that Tesla would have a Model S challenger within 5 years. I th…

That's why I think this new generation of transportation will be the first realistic challenge to car ownership. Think about it: virtually instant transportation, available on demand, and you can…

Exactly. Monorail systems of the 1980s never really had their breakout moment, either, likely for a lot of the same reasons. Dedicated, elevated right of way can get expensive, not to mention the cost…

I agree. Perhaps some of the root cause here is a faulty premise. The idea that "25% of the companies are on a trajectory that could lead to a multi-billion dollar company" feels wildly opti…

This is the clever bit: - The data:image in the srcset attribute shows transparent image and prevents loading the image in the src attribute in modern browsers - The image in the src is attribute is u…

So it's interesting. These appear to be pre-made items (limited selection each day). As far as I can tell, it's only $3 per delivery, no matter how many items you order. And the listed price…

Look, it's not without its faults, but iOS makes for a _much_ more approachable device than a 1993-era Mac. My young son cannot read, write, or speak, and I'm amazing at how productive he is…

The fact that it's hard to turn off autoplay in most browsers without a plugin is really sad. We really had a chance to get it right.

I complain (politely) about the internet fee at the desk, and more than 70% of the time its removed from the bill. The front desk almost always has authority to make those kinds of adjustments.

Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected Interesting that free trials periods are entirely unavailable to developers…

I think in some ways, you have a fiduciary responsibility to your shareholders to use reasonable means to maximize the value of your company. It seems to me that includes both operational efficiency a…

Especially since they now have a pretty straightforward beta seeding program available with Creative Cloud subscriptions. Pretty sure a public beta would have caught the SVG issue.

Also new to 2015, god forbid you lose internet for 2 seconds because the Creative Cloud menu instantly takes over your screen to complain. Every time. So far, it really doesn't feel like software…

I am continually amazed by the guys at Serif. First, they are offering Designer at £29.99. Secondly, in spite of the trumpeted GPU preview updates in CC 2015, Affinity Designer just blows Illustrator …

Not very well known, but iOS screen recording is now baked into the Quicktime app: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/ From there, you could export t…

I didn't mean that as a rationalization--it actual makes the exploitation even worse, I think. I feel like the momentum of research around factories is invested in reducing the number of human wo…

So I have an LG television, and now I'm always going to wonder if it came from the same factory and its construction utilized the same dangerous equipment. Does give me a sick feeling after readi…

I wonder if this is being upvoted for the idea of running a company from the beach, or for the particular technology suggestions (everything Google + Hipchat, Asana, Trello, and Harvest). I've be…

It's confusing that "Checklist" (where you check items off) and "Discover" (where you find explanation about each item) and "To Do" (where you can add your own items…

This goes much further into social behavior, and takes advantage of consumer and social data in new ways: "If friends have a poor lending reputation, this reflects badly on the person, just as pr…