links vom 12.01.2015

felix schwenzel

  fast­com­pa­ny.com: The Real Sto­ry Be­hind Jeff Be­zos's Fire Pho­ne De­ba­cle And What It Me­ans For Ama­zon's Fu­ture   #

aus­tin carr über das ama­zon fire pho­ne:

"In mee­tings, all Jeff tal­ked about was, '3-D, 3-D, 3-D!' He had this child­li­ke ex­ci­te­ment about the fea­ture and no one could un­der­stand why," re­calls a for­mer en­gi­nee­ring head who work­ed so­le­ly on Dy­na­mic Per­spec­ti­ve for ye­ars. "We pou­red sur­re­al amounts of mo­ney into it, yet we all thought it had no va­lue for the cus­to­mer, which was the big­gest iro­ny. When­ever an­yo­ne as­ked why we were do­ing this, the ans­wer was, 'Be­cau­se Jeff wants it.' No one thought the fea­ture ju­s­ti­fied the cost to the pro­ject. No one. Ab­so­lut­e­ly no one."

ich hat­te so ein fire pho­ne mal in der hand und habe die­ses dy­na­mi­sche-3d-fea­ture mal an­ge­se­hen und hat­te den glei­chen ge­dan­ken: nett — aber wozu soll das jetzt gut sein? 5 mi­nu­ten wow, mehr nicht. /ole reß­mann

  tech­crunch.com: De­cen­tra­li­ze All The Things!   #

jon evans:

They gave us a ful­ly de­cen­tra­li­zed In­ter­net and we used it to build web ser­vices-Face­book, Twit­ter, Gmail, iCloud-so mas­si­ve­ly cen­tra­li­zed they ver­ge on be­ing qua­si-me­dieval fief­doms. Now we'­re buil­ding the In­ter­net of So­meone El­se's Things, whe­r­ein every room of every home will con­tain de­vices con­trol­led by ser­vers the ho­meow­ners don't know, con­trol, or un­der­stand. What is wrong with us?

Don't try to bla­me igno­rant, tech-il­li­te­ra­te users. The worl­d's soft­ware de­ve­lo­pers do exact­ly the same thing, every time we push to or pull from Git­hub:

To­day is our quar­ter­ly re­min­der that Li­nus gave us a com­ple­te­ly dis­tri­bu­ted VCS, so we stored all of our repos in a sin­gle point of fail­ure.
— Gary Bern­hardt

  you­tube.com: Five Guys Bur­gers and Fries Re­view   #

youtube-video laden, info, direktlink

schon fast ein jahr alt, aber das kind hat mich drauf hin­ge­wie­sen. das ist das vi­deo von je­man­dem, der sich ei­nen bur­ger bei five guys ge­kauft hat und eine et­was um­fang­rei­che­re be­wer­tung dazu ab­gibt. im auto sit­zend.

und das ist das vi­deo was ir­gend­wer dar­u­as gere­mi­xed hat.

  face­book.com/fr­e­val: Viel­leicht soll­te man noch eine Sa­che ...   #

fré­dé­ric va­lin über die franzsö­si­sche pres­se­land­schaft.

  hys­te­ri­cal­fe­mi­nisms.com: CON­SENT   #

gu­ter text von emma hol­ten:

The pic­tures are an at­tempt at ma­king me a se­xu­al sub­ject in­s­tead of an ob­ject. I am not as­ha­med of my body, but it is mine. Con­sent is key. Just as rape and sex have not­hing to do with each other, pic­tures shared with and wi­t­hout con­sent are com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent things.

  herr-rau.de: Mark Twa­in, A Con­nec­ti­cut Yan­kee in King Ar­thur's Court   #

hab ich da­mals mal an­ge­fan­gen zu le­sen (auf deutsch), bin aber nie über die ers­ten 20 sei­ten hin­aus­ge­kom­men. soll­te ich viel­leicht noch­mal an­fan­gen, das buch — ob­wohl ich jetzt ja weiss was da­drin pas­siert und wie es en­det.