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The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it
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The Driver Who Hit Me Got Two Years in Prison. But I Got a Life Sentence.
I’ve been unprepared for everything that’s happened to me since a criminal driver plowed into me in July 2019, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that I was also unprepared for the feelings that confronting my attacker in court stirred up
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The Incredible Tale of the Greatest Toy Man You've Never Known
He brought Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Cabbage Patch Kids to our living rooms. He made and lost fortunes. Can Al Kahn stay in the game?
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The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications
.op{ font-size: 0.7rem; border-radius: 0.3rem; background: rgb(0 0 0 / 3%); padding: 0.5rem; } I ment to post this much earlier but have been fighting with neurological longhaul covid symptoms for most of the year. .postpage { width: 92% } figcaption { min-width: 95% } .tldr{ padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid orange;
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Meet Developers Where They Are
Notice anything funny about this bolt? The answer may help you design better developer experiences.
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CQRS
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is the notion that you can use a different model to update information than the model you use to read information
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The World’s Deadliest Thing — Anthony Warner
It is deadly, invisible and shapes much of the food we eat. A teaspoon of it could kill millions of people, and it is probably the most expensive material on earth. Yet you probably have some stuck to the bottom of you shoe.
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Airline Food - Esolang
Airline Food is an esoteric programming language created by User:Largejamie in April 2021 whose programs are supposed to look like Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up.…
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What is Hammock Driven Development?
If the solution isn't obvious you don't understand the problem well enough.
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Software development pushes us to get better as people
Have you ever been on a really good software team? There’s this feeling of connectedness, of shared purpose. We know what we’re building, and we are skilled at building it together. Thi…
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A founder’s guide to community
When to invest in community, how to get started, setting goals, crafting a strategy, hiring, scaling, and much more—guest post by David Spinks
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Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed
Why is the White House so silent about this significant achievement?
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52 things I learned in 2021
This year I edited another book, worked on fascinating projects at Fluxx + mN , and learned many learnings.
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Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)
/Film spoke with several Oscar-winning sound designers, editors, and mixers to learn why it has become tougher to understand what characters are saying.
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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day
Kat Norton built an Excel training business after going viral.
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The Secret Life of Seconds: The Minds Behind the World Chess Championship
By Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson Nov. 29, 2021 6:00 am ET Share Text AD Loading advertisement... 00:00 This article is in your queue. When Magnus Carlsen…
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Hayao Miyazaki Prepares to Cast One Last Spell
Hayao Miyazaki photographed outside his atelier near Studio Ghibli in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2021. Credit... Takahiro Kaneyama No artist has explored the…
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The modern family
Amid distance and estrangement and strain, some are happily replacing the clans they’re born into with chosen families.
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Age-Adjusted Excess Mortality Since January of 2020 – The Daily Sceptic
Excessive focus on 'official' death numbers has led to a distorted picture of the pandemic’s impact on mortality – both total and over time. Tracking age-adjusted excess mortality provides a much-needed corrective.
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The masculinity gap
Last year, I made a tweet that said the following: The gap in masculinity between the left and the right seems to have widened over time. In the early 20th century, the left was as masculine as the right, or nearly so. Today, the right is unquestionably more masculine. What happened?
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Feeding the Bear: A Closer Look at Russian Army Logistics and the Fait Accompli - War on the Rocks
Russia’s military buildup along the border with Ukraine has clearly gotten the attention of policymakers from Kiev to Washington, D.C. CIA Director Bill
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Behind the Scenes of David Fincher’s Fight Club
The following is an excerpt from the new book David Fincher: Mind Games, by Adam Nayman. Fight Club was adapted by screenwriter Jim Uhls from Chuck Palahniuk’s cult 1996 novel of the same name, wh…
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Your DI framework is killing your code
I read a really interesting post recently looking at the difference between typical OO code and a more functional style. There’s a lot to be said for the functional style of coding, even in O…
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Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys
Note: On the back of some feedback I’ve created a follow-up of this post where I refine the thesis. I’ve left this post as-is for the sake of comparison
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