Not a hater, just an example from today’s HN front page: Ableton from Berlin. World class UX/UI leading the DAW market for 25 years and counting. Not “Top 100” enough for validation? Just ask Thomas Bangalter. He’s taken it around the world to get lucky.

Live is not world class UI. It’s great software but that’s despite the interface, not because of it.

Same thing with Premiere, or the Pioneer CDJ. It’s not the standard because it’s a joy to use, it’s a standard because it’s functional.

Heh, when it comes to audio software, you could throw a lot more in the mix, e.g. Logic Pro, Native Instruments (at least in the past - shame what happened to them) and - arguably ;) - Steinberg among others.

Helicopters over Berlin blaring Ride of the Valkyries. https://youtu.be/VE03Lqm3nbI

Great writer & engineer. Worth a re-read every couple of years before heading back to your blub codebase.

Philips had 412,000 employees in 1974. Huge in its heyday. Currently 78,000. Sadly mismanaged into irrelevance for decades.

The more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.

Why does the Premier League have the best football players?

Ranking universities by operating revenue will result in a rather good approximation of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.

Anecdata from a _very_ frequent flyer: Naomi Campbell’s Airport Routine (2019). Makes sense to me.

https://youtu.be/b-U_jT9qWvs

Three hours well spent. Never a dull moment in the browser business. From downward—funargs and twinkies to browser wars and bitcoin.

Stripe seems to have understood Sequoia's Black Swan memo well.

Why would Taiwan not have high tech factories? It has similar or higher level of development than - as a non-random example - France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index