Enlarge / When faced with uncertainty, people don't make perfectly rational choices. flickr user: Jacqui Brown If you won $100 tomorrow, you’d be pretty happy. And if you lost $100, you’d be less than
A few days ago my wife and I went to see Uncut Gems at a Regal theater in Chicago. We booked our ticket online, reserved our seats, showed up 15 minutes ahead of time, and settled in. After the coil o
Enlarge / The sun is actually in the sky, not in your hand, which is key to playing Boktai . Konami The 2003 Game Boy Advance exclusive Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand! is a largely forgotten game, ev
Translations: Russian In Software Disenchantment we’ve seen how software has degraded in the past two decades. Recently Jonathan Blow gave a talk where he explained why it might be happening: The talk
Quijada’s invented language has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise. Photograph by Dan Winters / Typography By AJ Frackattack There are so many way
For three weeks in late January and early February , I travelled to Asia, spending two weeks in Saigon, a few days in Singapore, and about 48 hours in Doha, Qatar. Here are some of the things I saw an
College, 2012 —Internship recruiting season. “What are you looking for in your internship?” the recruiter asks. “I’d like to solve hard technical problems,” I reply. I end up at Jane Street writing so
The insidious popularity of ‘Liz Lemoning’ Published in Forge · 4 min read · Feb 20, 2020 -- Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in episode 611 of “30 Rock.” Photo: NBC/Getty Images T witter virality is the cultura
I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: "Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, manageria
As Engineers (or just about any other technical profession), we’re trained to think in terms of solutions (what feature to build, how to build them, subsequent improvements, etc.), but given a suffici
I wrote 5,000 words about the miserably bad decision letting T-Mobile buy Sprint. I regret to inform you that I am now dead. https://t.co/ub517eOdZ1 https://t.co/QzJX9RSl68
Credit... Hokyoung Kim Opinion I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead In pop culture, women are often objectified and disposed of. But even when we’re not being victimized, the alternative leaves m
I got my first glimpse of the Vaporfly in a briefing at Nike headquarters in 2016, a few months before the now-infamous shoe was released. It had already been used in secret by both the men’s and wome
January 2020 When I was young, I thought old people had everything figured out.Now that I'm old, I know this isn't true. I constantly feel like a noob. It seems like I'm always talking tosome startup
Enlarge / The source of all the trouble: the Abort pushbutton (along with its companion the Abort Stage pushbutton). This particular image is of the LM simulator currently residing at the Cradle of Av
“This might be the longest I’ve spent on a single bug. Across over three years I’ve poured more hours into debugging this than I care to count...” https://t.co/f09NagfJFY
Sick of clean eating, perfect gym outfits, and chiseled abs? A Swole Woman is here to help you be healthy, enjoy carbs, and get jacked. See More → I am a 21 year old senior in college. I am in despera
Updated at 9:30 p.m. ET on December 20, 2019. I knew nothing about Cole before meeting him; he was just a name on a list of boys at a private school outside Boston who had volunteered to talk with me
Yesterday, I removed the story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” by Isabel Fall from the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. The recent barrage of attacks on Isabel have taken a toll a
UPDATE: Against all sound advice I’m taking another shot at this brilliant idea. You can check it out my progress at glaciermd.com . If you’d rather hear about how horribly I screwed this up the first
Om du inte får den du älskar, får du älska den du får. Setting My previous MacBook Pro was a mid-2014, 15-inch model, purchased somewhere shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated USB-C MacBook
Disclaimer: All individuals and examples in this article are inspired by experiences in my career; any resemblances to real people, organizations, or situations are in no way associated with my curren
Our son Raffi has always been a handful. He is wild, willful, easily frustrated and disappointed. He is also curious, adorable, and full of joy. These qualities alternate in him in approximately five-
We all have this little voice inside our heads, chattering away behind the scenes. Stuff like, “You’re too fat. You’re not good enough. You’ll never get promoted. You don’t have what it takes. No one
Jessica Lester’s friends persuaded her to date Matthew Boynton, a boy in the eleventh grade, by saying, “If you don’t like him, you can always break up.” He was the grandson of the sheriff of Spalding
Lung cancer, rampant. No surprise. I’ve smoked since I was sixteen, behind the high-school football bleachers in Northfield, Minnesota. I used to fear the embarrassment of dying youngish, letting peop
So the coast shapes the water, the water shapes the coasts. These are the equal yet opposite forces that combine to form the self. I believe we are, within approximate boundaries, birthed by nature an
December 2019 Before I had kids, I was afraid of having kids. Up to that point Ifelt about kids the way the young Augustine felt about livingvirtuously. I'd have been sad to think I'd never have child
In 2017, I was told the best gaming story I'd ever heard. I'm very happy to say that I'm now getting to tell it myself, as a feature and a little documentary.
This is The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo.
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This is the first installment in The Design of Y2K , a series telling the stories behind the most influential products of the late 1990s and early 2000s. “I’ll be honest, and this is a funny story to
System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess. I’m not complaining about old-school sysadmins. They know how to keepsystems running, manage update and upgrade paths. This rant is about contain
David Wisnia at his home in Pennsylvania. Credit... Danna Singer for The New York Times Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later. He Had One Question. Was she the reason he was alive today? David
Every theory of aesthetics must be able to explain what is commonly known as "The Paradox of Tragedy". The paradox goes as follows: if tragedy causes an unpleasant response in a subject, how is it tha
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