My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-polit
When we can listen to literally anything, what do we choose, why, and who — or what — decides? Published in 500ish · 4 min read · Dec 24, 2017 -- Good post by Om Malik yesterday on the notion that mus
Playing to Win Those of us with the means to do as we pleased drove our vast resources into monumental construction. My grandest project was a Chinese city, tragically cut short by server reset. View
JACOB HARRIS What if Mos Eisley wasn't really that wretched and it was just Obi Wan being racist again? TIM CARMODY What do you mean, "these blaster marks are too precise to be made by Sand People?" W
I have so many thoughts about this, especially the question "are humans just not psychologically able to handle a global internet?" https://t.co/reRA5SiUaC
“Now I’m in my mid-forties and I’m trying a new thing with my depression. I have no idea if it’ll work any better than all the others, but here it goes.”
Derek Powazek - Depression is a Loaded Gun
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The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’
A few months before I decided to try to gain employment with Microsoft back in late 1983, I read about Microsoft Word, which was in its first version for MS-DOS back then. The feature I read about tha
This story begins, as they so often do , when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM and
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge In the binary world of online communications, companies like Apple and Google are either valorized for their highly influential products and actions or vilified for
Scrum is a suboptimal development methodology that will make developers less intelligent, less disciplined, and more forgetful. Scrum is the least-worst methodology you can adopt in a dysfunctional en
I have a small confession to make. Bad arguments dressed with the tinsel of pseudo-intellectualism are like catnip to me: they drive me crazy, and I’m a total sucker for batting them around. Deep in m
Shortly following new revelations from the New York Times that President Donald Trump's campaign team was in "repeated" contact with Russian officials ahead of the 2016 election, #TrumpImpeachmentPart
For every line of code that ends up in software the general public sees or interacts with, for every line in your Snapchats and Battlezone: Call of Honor Duty Warfare , there are a thousand lines of c
At this moment, at the beginning of the year, I have eight active big rock projects. The following attributes define these projects: I am the primary owner and have committed to someone that they will
Tara Moore/Getty Images Esther is a well-liked manager of a small team. Kind and respectful, she is sensitive to the needs of others. She is a problem solver; she tends to see setbacks as opportunitie
When Nike named Mark Parker their CEO in 2006, one of the first things Parker did was call Apple CEO Steve Jobs for business advice. It might not have seemed it, but at the time Nike was struggling. A
Why do a phone? I asked Steve Jobs ten years ago today. On the stage at the Moscone West hall in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO had just unveiled what would become the most transformative product since th
Today in Tedium: As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a lot further than most of its competitors. It managed to improve on a format people were used to (the ol
MIT has a storied history regarding hacking where the act is viewed as a “clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke” at the University. Hack is also defined as the act of breaking into compu
“Redesigning your blog” in 2016 is an anachronism. Like tweaking your Gopher presence or upgrading your ham radio, even talking about blogging feels like a throwback — an exercise in nostalgia for an
Preoccupations Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. Credit... David Saracino I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be
14 min read · Nov 21, 2016 -- Team NP have put up some impressive results since forming two months ago, including a dominating run through the Boston Major qualifiers and 2nd place at their first LAN
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Harry is the hero. Right? He’s the guy the story is all about, after all. He’s the Boy Who Lived. He has the scar and the prophecy. He has the sidekicks and the invisibility cloak. He has the mentor. He has the tragic backstory. He faces down the villain. Harry is the hero. It’s his face on the…
I’ve always wondered growing up - what makes adults so busy? Sure, you’re working a 40 hour a week job but the rest should just be fun and games, right? I have vivid memories of my childhood perpetual
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