Linked List: April 13, 2016

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

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Fun piece by Charles Bethea for both math and basketball nerds: “Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three”.

(Via the excellent new The New Yorker Today app.)

GoPro Hires Apple Designer Daniel Coster; Shares Jump 

Fred Imbert, CNBC:

GoPro is having a good day. The wearable camera maker’s stock surged more than 19 percent Wednesday and the company announced it hired Daniel Coster away from Apple as vice president of design.

Coster was a core member of Apple’s industrial design team for more than 20 years and is credited with contributing to devices such as iPhone 4 and iPad wireless keyboard, the company said in a statement.

Remarkable that the hiring of a single designer could have an effect like this, even if it’s just a temporary stock price spike.

Coster has his work cut out for him. I bought a GoPro camera last year, and was sorely disappointed by how chintzy it is.

Sprint Calls T-Mobile ‘Ghetto’ in Ad (Now Pulled) 

There’s a saved copy of the ad here, at least for now. When this broke last night, it made me wonder what the people involved think the word ghetto means in this context. Because if they think it means what I (and seemingly many, probably most, other people) do, there’s no way the woman would have even said it off the record, let alone on-camera — and let alone the decision of Sprint to actually publish it and defend it for a few hours.

But damned if I can imagine what they might think it means.