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How Peter Jackson’s team made World War I footage look new - Recode
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What People Actually Say Before They Die
Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed.
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How poverty changes your mind-set | Chicago Booth Review
This website uses cookies to ensure the best user experience. Privacy & Cookies Notice Accept Cookies The proportion of the global population living on less than $1.90 per person per day has fallen—from 18 percent in 2008 to 11 percent in 2013, according to the World Bank.
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on: 2018-02-26
VCs and founders talk finding (and keeping) product-market fit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
You’ve got the product — now how do you find customers? And once you find those customers, how do you keep them coming back for more? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024,…
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on: 2017-12-26
Web Typography & Layout: Past, Present, and Future · An A List Apart Events
Can typography encourage long-form reading—not just scanning? What are the most exciting areas of cutting-edge experimentation in typographic technology and digital layout, and what new skills will we need to design tomorrow’s web content? Three experts—Mozilla’s Jen Simmons, publication des
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on: 2017-12-11
Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle – Medium
I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anywhere near my own site.
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The Depression Thing
I’m burying the lede here a bit, but ledes are for real journalists, pffft. The reason why I’m writing about all of this is the same reason I write about anything: this is a very important aspect of my life, and I think it can help others. So I talk about it.
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on: 2017-10-12
Your app is an onion: Why software projects spiral out of control
You start with the best of intentions. You hire a developer to build out your startup idea. But almost every week, it feels like the project needs tweaking. Features start creeping in, and the scope slowly expands. It’s as if the project has a life of its own, and is trying to destroy your life.
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on: 2017-10-04
Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
I was wondering recently after poring through yet another data breach how many people actually use multi-step verification.
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on: 2017-09-14
Laracon 2017 – A Recap (And Links Galore) – Koomai – Medium
I attended my first Laracon in person and I have to say I really enjoyed the experience — maybe more than I expected to. It was well organised and the talks were diverse, informative and actionable. Day 1 was all technical and mostly revolved around Laravel.
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on: 2017-07-28
San Francisco Is Burning | GQ
I ’m sitting by the fireplace, as I told him I would be. This is in a café near the Mission District in San Francisco. I spot him straightaway because he looks so jumpy. He’s never talked to a journalist before. We give each other surreptitious nods. He sits down.
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on: 2017-06-23
Break Down the Walls :: How the Youth Crew Aesthetic & Ethos Disrupted Punk
One of the most powerful statements you can make in a subculture is challenging its conventions. That very ideal is what makes Minor Threat’s song “Straight Edge” resonate to this day, as it’s not so much an ideology, but a rejection of one. Just a few years after the D.C.
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Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit
When Ada JoAnn Taylor is tense, she thinks she can feel the fabric of a throw pillow in the pads of her fingers. Taylor has suffered from tactile flashbacks for three decades. She imagines herself in a small apartment in Beatrice, Nebraska.
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on: 2017-06-13
The Algorithms Behind Moana’s Gorgeously Animated Ocean
Disney’s engineers used special software to make a magical, authentic body of water. In the early days, when motion pictures were still new, filming the ocean was a radical idea.
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on: 2017-06-02
Search Engine Land's Guide To SEO
SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” In simple terms, SEO means the process of improving your website to increase its visibility in Google, Microsoft Bing, and other search engines whenever people search for: Products you sell. Services you provide.
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on: 2017-05-05
The Accident No One Talked About
I found the driver’s name from a police report that had been filed in Florida 17 years before. The report was torn and creased and incorrect. It said, “A boy was crossing the street on his bicycle.” But there had been two boys in the road that day and no bike.
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on: 2017-04-02
Our journey migrating 100k lines of code from AngularJS to React (Chapter 1
This is the first post of a series explaining the story and technical learnings we had from starting to migrate from AngularJS to React. Check out the github repo for examples and the full code.
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on: 2017-02-06
Pause! We Can Go Back! | by Bill McKibben | The New York Review of Books
Bill McKibben is a Founder of ThirdAct.org and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury. His latest book, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, was published last year. (October 2023)
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More Than React: Why You Shouldn’t Use ReactJS For Complex Interactive Fron
Key Takeaways ReactJS components are difficult to reuse in complex interactive web projects. ReactJS’s Virtual DOM algorithm is time-consuming and imprecise. ReactJS’s HTML templates are neither complete nor powerful.
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on: 2017-02-02
How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
This Daily Mail piece by David Derbyshire is so profound it has been cited over and over: How sryetfsfri Children Lost the Right to Roam in Four Generations: an interview with four generations of the same family about how far they were allowed to wander as kids.
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What Romance Really Means After 10 Years of Marriage
This week, the Cut brings you True Romance: five days of stories about love as it’s actually lived. I’m an advice columnist, so sometimes people ask me about how they can “keep the romance alive” in their marriages.
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on: 2017-01-15
Ask Andrew W.K.: 'Do You Ever Get Depressed?' | Village Voice
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I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life
It took me awhile to perfect the cookie recipe. I experimented with ingredients: Blueberry, Strawberry, Sour Diesel, White Widow, Bubba Kush, AK-47 — all strains of cannabis, which I stored, mixed with glycerin, in meticulously labeled jars on a kitchen shelf.
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on: 2017-01-08
Andrew W.K. on Growth - VICE
Given my public “Party” persona, many are surprised or even disappointed to learn I’m not naturally upbeat—that I wasn’t born a golden ray of sunshine. Like most of us, I have moods. And for as long as I can remember, I’ve been almost supernaturally prone to negative emotions.
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The Isdalen mystery - Dokumentar
November 29, 1970. A 12 year old girl spots her. The Sunday hike with her father and kid sister have brought them far up into the hillside above the beautiful and gloomy Isdalen valley, a few kilometres outside the centre of Bergen.
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on: 2017-01-03
Death of a troll | Alina Simone | Technology | The Guardian
Everyone who played Epic Mafia knew Eris, or at least knew of him.
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Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ | Motherboard
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on: 2015-12-14
Isis: In a borderless world, the days when we could fight foreign wars and
Early in 2014, Isis released one of its first videos. Largely unseen in Europe, it had neither the slick, cutting-edge professionalism of its later execution tapes nor the haunting “nasheed” music that accompanies most of its propaganda.
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on: 2015-11-23
How we ended up with microservices.
Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud, I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a constellation of microservices.
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So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class ... - The New York Times
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How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love | Brain Pickings
“There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1941.
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Influences: Bill Stevenson | Modern Drummer MagazineModern Drummer Magazine
Drummer Bill Stevenson is among the most influential musicians associated with West Coast punk rock, on any instrument.
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on: 2015-08-05
The Post-Mac Interface — Medium
More about me at my website. In 1996 Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen published a thought experiment, The Anti-Mac Interface. It’s worth a read.
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A 10 Minutes Walk In The Future Of The Internet (And Journalism) — Medium
This summer, for reasons connected to my work as researcher, I’ve spent some time in London. If you’re interested in journalism and the web, this was a good time to be in town.
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on: 2015-07-30
The Next Wave | Edge.org
This can't be the end of human evolution. We have to go someplace else. It's quite remarkable. It's moved people off of personal computers. Microsoft's business, while it's a huge monopoly, has stopped growing.
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on: 2015-07-21
Vagabonds, Crafty Bauds, and the Loyal Huzza: A History of London at Night
In the 16th & 17th centuries, “nightwalking” was a transgressive act in a city still on the brink of total nighttime illumination, but with complex implications depending on your social status.
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on: 2015-07-13
What Twitter Can Be. | LOWERCASE capital
Disclaimers: 1) This is a very long read. Thinking about a company and using its product obsessively for nine years straight will do that to you. 2) My funds and I own a lot of Twitter stock. 3) I do not speak for Twitter. 4) I have no inside information about Twitter.
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on: 2015-06-04
The revolution that’s changing the way your child is taught | Ian Leslie |
The video does not seem remarkable on first viewing. A title informs us that we are watching Ashley Hinton, a teacher at Vailsburg Elementary, a school in Newark, New Jersey.
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on: 2015-03-13
The Night My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was | VICE | United Ki
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The ‘Loser Edit’ That Awaits Us All - NYTimes.com
If you have ever watched a reality TV show and said, “He’s going home tonight,” you know what the “loser edit” is. I imagine it started as a matter of practicality. If you have 20 contestants, they can’t all receive equal airtime.
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Lessons From a 'Local Food' Scam Artist | Narratively | Human stories, bold
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on: 2015-03-03
Stephen King’s “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in
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on: 2015-03-02
Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie
The Longreads Exclusive below is based on Frances Leech’s ebook of the same name, published in 2013 by Vintage UK. To make chocolate mousse, enough for 150 people, say, first whip the cream — liters and liters of it. Then, separately, whisk the egg yolks.
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on: 2015-02-28
Count to ten when a plane goes down...
Just a little under 31 years ago, I played a key role in a conspiracy theory that grew up around a passenger plane downed by a Russian missile. Trust me, I did not mean to be involved.
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on: 2014-07-22
No, you're not entitled to your opinion
Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning.
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on: 2014-07-10
artoo.js
This nice droid is loaded into the JavaScript context of any webpage through a handy bookmarklet you can instantly install by dropping the above icon onto your bookmark bar.
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on: 2014-06-17
PhpStorm Resources
Find tutorials, tips, and other hands-on learning resources to get started with PhpStorm.
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on: 2014-06-16
A Type House Divided
Jonathan Hoefler is standing in his office on the seventh floor of the Cable Building in Noho, sipping a mug of ginger tea and telling stories about an obscure 16th-century Flemish punch cutter.
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on: 2014-06-05
GGJUDI: Login Daftar Resmi Online Gaming Terbaik 2024
INFORMASI SITUS Nama Situs GGJUDI Minimal Deposit 💸 50.
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on: 2014-06-05
Painting with Code
By day, I code mobile apps and design digital experiences. In my free time, I create art. I recently began exploring both at once with generative art, a sublime combination of computer programming and graphic art.
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on: 2014-06-05
La Vera Storia della Marijuana - di Massimo Mazzucco (vers. integrale)
Siete pregati di NON RICARICARE il film completo su altri account (spezzoni brevi OK, ma sempre citando questa fonte). Chi vuole può acquistare il DVD su luogocomune.net e poi copiarlo e distribuirlo liberamente. Grazie. Massimo Mazzucco.
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on: 2014-05-30
samdjstevens/flasher
A simple PHP (5.3+) package to ease the process of displaying feedback to users of your website as they interact with it. This package comes in handy when you want to provide some feedback to the user on the next page load, after they complete certain actions on your site.
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on: 2014-05-25
Wikipedia Redesign Concept on Behance
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world. It hasn’t been changed or redefined during the last 10 years. This is a try to make Wikipedia more modern, readable, useful and personal.
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on: 2014-05-21
For Workers, Less Flexible Companies - NYTimes.com
He calls it one of the bright spots of his week: Before Jared Dalton, 32, starts his workday as a manager at Ernst & Young, the big accounting firm, he dresses his 5-month-old daughter, Olivia, and then places her on her tummy to play.
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on: 2014-05-21