Quick Note: Deterioration of Speed
A regrettable feature of rail transport is that often, the speed of a line deteriorates over time after it opens or finishes a major upgrade. This can come from deferred maintenance or from proper …
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S01 Episode 8: (Chinese) Dudes Rock
Nihilistic self-improvement + Tinder guy reacts to Feminism + The Virgin/Chad/Speedrunner spectrum
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Why low-code development tools will not result in 80% of software being created by citizen developers by 2024
Being a professional software developers takes more than using the right tools
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Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?
Default Headline Can the C.D.C. Be Fixed? Covid-19 has shown the glaring weaknesses of the world’s premier public health agency — and just how much work it…
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Today We’re Eating the Winners of the 1948 Chicken of Tomorrow Contest
Some of the champions of these competitions became the major genetics suppliers of today's poultry.
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The Great Reset: BlackRock Is Fueling A $120 Trillion Transformation On Wall St.
Sustainability is the name of the game for today’s investors, and with trillions of dollars up for grabs, it pays to take the plunge
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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
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Review: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Book Is a Fantasy of War From the Air | The New Republic
“The Bomber Mafia” enthuses about precision tactics said to spare civilian lives. Except they didn’t.
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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
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How an American Family Raised on GE Wages Copes With Income Inequality
‘Why would I put my kids in a place where there is no future?’
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Javascript and the next decade of data programming
I’ve recently been getting pretty far into the weeds about what the future of data programming is going to look like. I use pandas and dplyr in python and R respectively. But I’m starting to see the shape of something that’s interesting coming down the pike. I’ve been working on a project that involves scatterplot visualizations at a massive scale–up to 1 billion points sent to the browser. In doing this, two things have become clear:
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The Rise of Remote Work May Reshape College Towns. Here’s How These Campuses Are Wooing Transplants.
Some universities are making a play for other companies’ employees, hoping to lure them to move to college towns and work remotely.
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The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life
Inside the world of sweepers—committed competitors trying to game the system or maybe just win a lifetime supply of Gatorade.
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[Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers, By Barrett Swanson | Harper's Magazine
Educating the TikTok generation
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(The author is taking their monthly break! The Wandering Inn will be back on the 29th! The 1st of June for Public readers!) Ever since Erin had died, every day was like the last. Not the ‘la…
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Mocking is a Code Smell
Note: This is part of the “Composing Software” series (now a book!) on learning functional programming and compositional software…
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'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.
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This Was Steve Jobs' Most Important Observation When He Returned to Apple. It Changed Everything
It had nothing to do with the products.
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This Was Steve Jobs's Most Important Observation When He Returned to Apple. It Changed Everything
It had nothing to do with the products.
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Should we rebrand REST?
In this blogpost I argue the case for consigning the term "REST API" to history. In its place we should adopt the terms "HTTP API" and "hypermedia API", which better differentiate two distinctive designs for the programmatic interfaces of web services.
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Stripe isn’t a platform. It’s a mouse.
Many years ago, I went to a dinner party hosted by a super-successful real estate developer. The developer and I were good friends, so he…
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Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo
As he prepares to release his final "Jackass" film, the stuntman takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.
