Tobie Langel

This eagerness to declare oneself exempt from the rules to which others are bound, on the grounds of one’s own objective superiority, is always the animating sentiment behind nationalistic criminality.

What we know for sure is this: monocultures always make more & faster progress in the near term when they’re stewarded by strong, vibrant leaders. But over time you get stuck. Companies change, sensibilities change. And then you’ve got all the technology, and all talent, and all of the best thinkers, all trapped on one technology stack.

Deep platform innovations can be sticky, and in our experience, they move the web forward for everyone. JS performance is one example. Extending the web to include device APIs held back for privileged native app stacks is another.

It’s starting to feel like oldIE all over again, but with a different set of excuses for why nothing can be fixed.

After a negative experience several years ago with Top Gear, a popular automotive show, where they pretended that our car ran out of energy and had to be pushed back to the garage, we always carefully data log media drives. While the vast majority of journalists are honest, some believe the facts shouldn’t get in the way of a salacious story.

So to summarise, at this point in the discussion, I think our motto should be: More Open Source, Less Freedom Fries.

When they come home from an environment where killing is not only accepted but is a metric of success, the transition to one where killing is wrong can be incomprehensible.

The companies that are best at web services are less like a synchronized metronome and more like a group of crickets, each team releasing incremental improvements that over time amount to something quite significant indeed.

The Obama administration told a federal court in September that the public has no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in cellphone location data, and hence the authorities may obtain documents detailing a person’s movements from wireless carriers without a probable-cause warrant.