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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…
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on: 2022-08-27
The New Normal: The Coming Tsunami of Fakery
How the Dead Internet Theory is fast becoming reality thanks to zero, marginal-cost content generated at infinite scale
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on: 2022-08-26
Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals
“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.
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on: 2022-07-10
50 Shades of Beige - Science Museum Blog
Assistant Curator Shaz Hussain explores the history of the personal computer to answer the ever important question: why beige?
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on: 2022-07-06
It's 1997 and you want to build a website - The History of the Web
You have a few options. How much time you got?
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on: 2022-07-06
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price. Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us
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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:
Folded from a single square sheet of 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper without any cutting.
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on: 2021-12-19
Social Cooling - Big Data's long term side-effect
Thousands of hidden scores influence your chance to get a job, a loan, insurance or even a date. Social Cooling describes how this increases pressure to conform, and asks how this will change society.
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on: 2020-09-29
A Few Rules · Collaborative Fund
The person who tells the most compelling story wins.
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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
We all have a finite amount of time to live, and within that mortal countdown, we devote some fraction towards our work. Even for the most career-focused, your life will be filled with many things beyond work: supporting your family, children, exercise, being a mentor and a mentee, hobbies, and so the list goes on. This is the sign of a rich life, but one side-effect is that time to do your work will become increasingly scarce as you get deeper into your career.
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on: 2020-09-25
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. It wants to know how things are […]
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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
When it comes to the origin of the word “jazz,” it seems that each person simply believes what she or he wants to.Some would like the word to come from…
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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…
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on: 2019-08-05
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site, operated by Cognizant in Tampa, FL one contractor has died, others have developed PTSD and fear for their lives.
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on: 2019-06-19
7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer
A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.
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on: 2019-06-08
Going Critical
Learn how things spread with playable simulations
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on: 2019-05-14
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
People can tell you how many levels, what patterns to follow to beat the levels and how to get a “perfect game”. But until now, no one’s ever told you how people really played the…
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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. But creating videogames became the way in which I tried to make sense of his death.
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on: 2018-12-29
Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 — overreacted
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
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on: 2018-12-29
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage every day situatio
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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. But there is a big — and I mean Grand Canyon-scale BIG — difference between “programming” and working as a professional software engineer.
Here are, in no particular order, some things that nobody told me about working in tech as a software engineer:
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on: 2018-11-14
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
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on: 2018-11-05
Mister Rogers's Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Kids
The TV legend possessed an extraordinary understanding of how kids make sense of language.
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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. It consi…
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on: 2018-05-08
What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Means for Hip-Hop | The New Yorker
Doreen St. Félix writes that, in becoming the first hip-hop artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, Kendrick Lamar has continued the consecration of blackness in élite spaces.
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on: 2018-04-19