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The mystery of “when women stopped coding” – the triketora press
NPR did a Planet Money podcast in 2014 posing the mystery of “When Women Stopped Coding”. The writeup online includes a striking graph of the percentages of women in different fields of study, plotted out over the last few decades.
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on: 2022-08-27
The New Normal: The Coming Tsunami of Fakery
The word robot derives from the Slavonic word robota, roughly translating to servitude, forced labor, or drudgery. It came into vogue during the Central European system of serfdom, whereby a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor.
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on: 2022-08-26
Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals
Spotify doesn’t use “the Spotify model” and neither should you. Of all the allures of startup culture, few are more desireable than the speed and nimbleness of a small team. Maintaining that feeling as a company grows is a challenge.
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on: 2022-07-10
50 Shades of Beige
Assistant Curator Shaz Hussain explores the history of the personal computer to answer the ever important question: why beige? They say black is the chicest colour, it goes with everything. Which is why the sleek, minimalist design of your phone, laptop or tablet fits neatly into your lifestyle.
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on: 2022-07-06
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
Sometimes going with the flow is nice. Nobody wants to be the disagreeable, anti-mimetic guy in a group that makes it impossible to gain consensus among a group of friends about where to grab a beer or a bite to eat.
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on: 2021-12-26
An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper, Without Any Cutting
Origami artist Juho Könkkölä spent 50 hours folding an origami samurai from a single square sheet of paper, with no cutting or ripping used in the process. He describes his process on Reddit:
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on: 2021-12-19
Culture matters
Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture.
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on: 2021-11-09
Social Cooling - big data's unintended side effect
Databrokers compare your data to the data of people they know more about. By comparing the patterns they try to guess the likelihood of thousands of details that you may never have disclosed. These are actual examples: This has good and bad sides.
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on: 2020-09-29
A Few Rules · Collaborative Fund
The person who tells the most compelling story wins. Not the best idea. Just the story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads. Something can be factually true but contextually nonsense.
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on: 2020-09-25
Work on what matters | StaffEng
I've taken to using the word "energized" over "impactful." "Impactful" feels company-centric, and while that's important, "energized" is more inwards-looking. Finding energizing work is what has kept me at Stripe for so long, pursuing impactful work. - Michelle Bu
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on: 2020-09-25
I, Backpack
This was part i of . i. ii. The Infinite Frontier as American Capitalism’s Response to the Malthusian Trap iii. Advertising, IP Law, and the Invisible Hand Subscribe to get notified when I post more essays.
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on: 2020-03-22
The infinite scroll - Columbia Journalism Review
For the sake of this exercise, please imagine it’s another gray midday in winter, months after the end of the World Series and still weeks from the beginning of spring training. The afternoon is sunless but somehow also hangover-bright, and your brain has decided to make it worse.
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on: 2020-03-07
Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? Follow a Trail of Clues, in Deep Dive with Lewis Porter
skip to main content Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? Follow a Trail of Clues, in Deep Dive with Lewis Porter By Lewis Porter • 3 hours ago Tags: Related Content
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on: 2019-08-15
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my abilities at that same stage. More often than not the best advice, the things that stuck with me, came from people who had no background at all in software.
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on: 2019-08-05
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of violent acts against people and animals, accounts of sexual harassment and post-traumatic stress disorder, and other potentially disturbing content. Keith Utley loved to help.
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on: 2019-06-19
7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer
Next year, I’ll be entering my 10th year of being formally employed to write code. Ten years! And besides actual employment, for nearly 2/3 of my life, I’ve been building things on the web.
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on: 2019-06-08
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
There’s a ruin of what some believe to be a pagan Roman church in the garden of a private residence, in a very small town just south of Rome, whose stone stairs leading to its alleged former altar are so completely worn through in the center that they resemble what a stick of butter looks like if
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on: 2019-03-04
More games should be truly honest about death
I never intended to make videogames about my brother. He died in May last year, standing in the crowded lobby of the Manchester Arena, at the hands of the radicalised young man who’d walked into the building and detonated a homemade explosive.
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on: 2018-12-29
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018
People often assume that I know far more than I actually do. That’s not a bad problem to have and I’m not complaining. (Folks from minority groups often suffer the opposite bias despite their hard-earned credentials, and that sucks.)
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on: 2018-12-29
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage every day situatio
He's unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn't have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions. So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...
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on: 2018-12-03
Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer · Ana Ulin
My dad started teaching me Basic when I was about 7 years old, and since about that age I knew that I wanted to build software for a living. It was obviously a fun and useful thing to do, and something that I could do well.
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on: 2018-11-14
Programming Quotes
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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on: 2018-11-06
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. A writer’s map hints at a fully imagined world, and at the beginning of a book, it’s a promise.
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on: 2018-11-05
Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language. For the millions of adults who grew up watching him on public television, Fred Rogers represents the most important human values: respect, compassion, kindness, integrity, humility.
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on: 2018-06-09
As easy as 1,2,3…
In every day life we all do our calculations, whether for the taxman, our purchases, paying the household bills or in some academic discipline, using the place value decimal number system.
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on: 2018-05-08
What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Means for Hip-Hop | The New Yorker
In 2015, the journal Royal Society Open Science published a witty evolutionary history of pop music, based on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1960 to 2010, in which the authors treated elements like timbre, chord, and speech as if they were impressions on a fossil, and genre as if it were a living,
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on: 2018-04-19