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O n the morning of Monday, August 13, 2012, Scott Stevens loaded a brown hunting bag into his Jeep Grand Cherokee, then went to the master bedroom, where he hugged Stacy, his wife of 23 years. “I love
C atherine Townsend-Lyon, 53, started gambling excessively when she was 30. As a result, her 40 th birthday wasn’t much of a celebration: She was hospitalized, shortly after a suicide attempt. She’d t
C an a robot be creative? Advances in cloud robotics—machines connected to supercomputers in the cloud—have given self-driving cars, surgical robots, and other “smart” devices tremendous powers of com
How I learned to program Tavish Armstrong has a great document where he describes how and when he learned the programming skills he has . I like this idea because I've found that the paths that people
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Shel Kaphan was the fi
Some of you know it as the place to most reliably get into a screaming fight with your partner. Or the place to go when you’re in the mood to wind through miles of a maze-like showroom to travel an actual, as-the-crow-flies distance of five feet . Or when you want to be subjected to a series of…
Coming out of Sierra On-Line’s 1984 near-death experience , Ken Williams made a prognostication from which he would never waver: that the real future of home as well as business computing lay with the
This report was written with the assistance of the research team at Lookout Security. Update (Sept 1, 2016) : Today Apple released security updates for Desktop Safari and Mac OS X. These updates patch
Some people say that you should never refrigerate tomatoes. Is this really true? I've been told for so long, by so many people, not to refrigerate my tomatoes that I'm not sure if I've ever done anyth
This is the “growth hack” that got my whole company started March 11th 2016 5,209 reads 0 Julien Julien is the founder of Breather, a New York-based office space startup. He started Breather in Januar
Chef David Chang runs Momofuku, which includes 13 restaurants, a bakery, two bars, and a culinary lab. | Chang wears a Michael Kors shirt; Levi’s jeans; Carrera watch by Tag Heuer. Knife by Wusthof. J
2019 UPDATE: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models . Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Hu
No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other
Benjamin Brandall Contributor Benjamin Brandall is a content crafter for Process Street . I’m writing this from a slightly saddened perspective, revisiting my favorite SNES RPGs and realizing somethin
This article provides an in-depth look at serverless architecture and as a result is a long read. If you need a concise summary of what serverless is and its trade-offs - take a look at the bliki entr
Tiny events It begins with a spark. Four cordite bags lit by an electric charge fire an explosion inside the falling bomb, pushing the rings of purified uranium down a gun barrel and into a second ura
Feb 15, 2016 Everything You Need To Know About Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages About The Author Christian Cantrell is a Senior Experience Development Engineer on Adobe’s XD team, and a best-selling
We’re now coming up to 9 years since the launch of the iPhone kicked off the smartphone revolution, and some of the first phases are over - Apple and Google both won the platform war, mostly, Facebook
As long as there's a can of sardines in the cupboard, I feel safe. That's a plain statement of fact, but it occurs to me, seeing it typed out, that "sardines in the cupboard" presents rich possibiliti
Perhaps you’ve never thought about it before. Perhaps you’ve never contemplated the vast array of forces that come into play when you step foot in a casino. Knowledge is power, and we’re dropping knowledge on how casinos work… From the top down, the hierarchy of the traditional casino gaming floor…
An Unbelievable Story of Rape An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins. March 12, 2009 Lynnwood, Washington No one came to court
Disney's Main Street I just returned from the Happiest Place on Earth in a foul mood. I’m not mad at Disneyland. As always they did everything right, providing an exceptionally magical experience for
I’m not really a hard core gamer anymore, but my fascination with programming did begin with video games (and specifically, rendering algorithms). So when I saw John Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote sh
I—A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in
Alysia Santo Beth Schwartzapfel Eli Hager Dana Goldstein Maurice Chammah Simone Weichselbaum Bill Keller Christie Thompson Andy Rossback A s long as the City of New York has owned Rikers Island, since
I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on. I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem holl
Apr 17, 2015 Using Sketch For Responsive Web Design (A Case Study) About The Author Ashley is a designer for New Media Campaigns, a web agency in Carrboro, NC. There she leads the design process for n
If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disn
Shubhendu Sharma is working to reforest the world, one tiny patch at a time A forest planted by humans, then left to nature’s own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. What if we coul
A static map of the spaceship’s layout in Hadean Lands . Image courtesy Andrew Plotkin The best video game I played last year is a science-fiction thriller about alchemy, and it has no graphics or sou
I dumped meat a few weeks ago, and it was not an easy breakup. Some of my most treasured moments have involved a deck, a beer, and a cheeseburger. But the more I learned, the more I understood that th
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Fay-Wei Li stepped out of his car and looked around. There was not much to see aside from an old wooden fence and a soggy ditch strewn with roadside detritus. Could this really be the spot? A biologis
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“That Mid-Twenties Thing When You’re Trying to Pull Your Shit Together” Jon Favreau (Mike): When I set out to write Swingers , I didn’t know I was even writing a movie. My dad had given me a screenwri
When working with distributed systems, sequential IDs are not always an option. GUIDs are commonly used, but they’re unnecessarily long. How long do randomly generated IDs really need to be? “Conditio
Kaleigh Ahern was twelve years old when a tick bit her. She noticed it “perched” on her shoulder when she was taking a shower one morning. “I thought it was your average, everyday bug,” Ahern told me
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