Bookmarks tagged with #technology.
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How a Book Is Made
It started as a Word document, pecked out letter by letter at a dining room table in Connecticut. Now, it is 150,000 copies of a 626-page book called “Moon Witch, Spider King,” with a luminous cover that glows with neon pinks and greens.
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on: 2022-02-21
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
Google Fights Back – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
For a company famed for its engineering culture, you wouldn’t expect a video at Google’s annual I/O developer conference to have such emotional resonance. And yet, just watch (I have included the context around the video in question, which starts at the 2:33 mark):
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on: 2019-05-09
Color Spaces – Bartosz Ciechanowski
For the longest time we didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the way we talk about color. The modern display technologies capable of showing more vivid shades have, for better or for worse, changed the rules of the game.
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on: 2019-02-17
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened.
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on: 2018-05-29
An off-grid social network
Scuttlebutt is slang for gossip, particularly among sailors. It is also the name of a peer-to-peer system ideal for social graphs, identity and messaging. Scuttlebutt was created by Dominic Tarr, a Node.
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on: 2017-04-06