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Mark Zuckerberg Unleashes His Alpha Geek -- New York Magazine - Nymag
1. Kills animals Declared to the world last year that he would only eat meat if it came from beasts he had slaughtered personally. Won mano a mano battles with chickens, pigs, goats (he slit their throats), and even a bison (he displays the he [...]
Snapchat Sweeps Campus -- New York Magazine - Nymag
The future of photography is impermanent, report the students of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut. Last May, they started using Snapchat, a wickedly simple new app for the iPhone that allows the user to take a photo, scribble or typ [...]
Why Facebook Has Not Already Peaked -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Imagine for a moment that no one ever joins Facebook again. Whether this year or five years from now, it has to occur: You can’t grow beyond the number of Internet users on Earth. Past that point, what happens? What’s to keep a rival like Googl [...]
The New York Tech Scene's HR Problem -- New York Magazine - Nymag
New York City has never had a problem enticing people to work within its confines. Come for the dream of running this town, stay for the tiny apartment and redemptive nightlife. But just as the city’s expanding tech sector is looking vaguely bu [...]
The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz -- New York Magazine - Nymag
The precocious coder, hacker visionary, and “pirate” was already a tech legend by the time he’d turned 17. But in the weeks since his suicide last month, at 26, his friends and comrades have tried to turn him into something else—a martyr.
The Backlash to Google Reader Changes -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Google Reader died two weeks ago. Okay, fine, that’s a slight exaggeration: What really happened was that Google put out a blog post announcing modifications to the design of the RSS tool and the end of its much-beloved sharing function (which [...]
Codecademy's Yearlong Computer Programming Tutorials -- New York Magazine - Nymag
It wasn’t so long ago that computer programming seemed the domain of a certain type—the introverted loner toiling away in darkened basements, perhaps with breaks to watch Xena reruns. The rest of us, while glad that Google had mapped the world [...]