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Sam Biddle
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Senior Writer at Gawker. Read more at my website.

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I'm not sure how much reason CLW has to embellish. Read more

It seems like it wasn't even so much the conditions as much as the added stress of making a perfect product in massive quantities with insufficient training. Read more

I don't think there's anything dishonorable about the "say nothing" approach. Read more

Well, I think there's a big difference between gadget geeks like you and me and Jimmy Kimmel "man on the street" victims. Anecdotally, lots of people I know who aren't tuned in to the tech rumor mill still knew the iPhone 5 was gonna have a 4-inch screen, LTE, etc. Read more

It'd probably be a hell of a lot easier to keep things secure in the US, too—easier to scare the shit out of everyone with legal threats. Read more

I should clarify this—it turns out I was wrong about Pages, but other content you can like (ie web articles) are still subject to auto-liking Read more

Again, I repeated this in multiple places, with far less popular subjects. Read more

I tested it with multiple pages, and was refreshing constantly to make sure the count wasn't increasing. I doubt it's a coincidence. Read more

Facebook is like a packed basement party full of tweens that doesn't adhere to fire code and my mom and ex girlfriends are there for some reason oh god is this a dream I don't want to wake up Read more

I will because I want to be popular and beloved as much as possible. Read more

A lot of that stuff you're talking about is being worked on riiiiiiiiiight now. Read more