Nick Denton's discussions

Yes, you're spot on. Every solution — to material needs or organizational efficiency — is quickly taken for granted. And our restless minds seek out another problem to solve, surface another need to satisfy. Read more

I'm currently with Sunrise. The latest version of the app is an improvement. Read more

Hey, Whitson — this is such a natural step for Lifehacker, one that you've already taken, and one that we can now talk about. Read more

Ah, interesting that your choice is emphatic in the Q&A — but you were so much more judicious in the article. There, Ulysses is just the second in a list, and you don't even describe it that generously. So objective! Read more

What about iA Writer?The lack of image and video support is an issue: does anybody write without illustration any more? But it's clean; the default fonts are well-chosen; and the focus view is a real innovation.

So what to do if you want to use ScanSnap hardware for bulk and duplex scanning — but like the idea of Doxie integration with Drive or Evernote? Read more

Nested threads alienate people who aren't that web-savvy. But one level of indentation, such as that we use to display replies, might be okay. Read more

I'm not sure whether this will make you more or less angry, but yes, I've been using this system the last few weeks. It produces interesting threads, like this: My Critics Are Nazis. (Sean Parker hates me even more than you do right now.) Read more

Ha. A man after my own heart. Read more

You can take a look at the original release post on the Kinja product blog. We'll put up a fuller how-to once we've worked through the thread organization and the reply flow. Read more

Yeah, we can definitely sort the All replies better. But that means giving up on chronological order, which people like — at least in theory. Read more

Either you're going to have to scroll or you're going to have to click. Some people say the first thread is so long that the second gets buried. But then others complain they have to click in to see what's going on. We think we have a decent compromise, but it will take a few more days to work through. Read more

Hey, Lopniks. (Sorry, I don't like Jalops.) Read more

Of all the characters in Middlemarch, when you first read the book, you identified with Dorothea, the sensitive and romantic woman who respects learning so much that she makes a tragically bad marriage to a dried-out phony and pedant. Read more

How do you know they're not correct? Women lying and pretending they are men? Read more

Those numbers on Quantcast refer to readers. Read more

That's quite a jump from tampon rights to Dr Who! Read more

I tried to dig out Dr Who demographics but only found an analysis of Matt Smith's appeal to younger audiences. Generally, however, science fiction has an overwhelmingly male fan base. io9, our SF and fantasy blog is run by a woman. It's undeniably progressive. But even io9 has four times more men than women readers. Read more

Nah, too whimsical. I was more of a Blake's 7 fan. That was also created and directed by men. Read more

Don't worry. This is what people do at Gawker: disagree. Read more