Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace
The tech giant, trying to navigate an age of heightened political disagreement, struggles to tame a workplace culture of nonstop debate. Often organized by small groups of employees, the discussions have turned the tech giant’s headquarters into something resembling a college campus.
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Posted on 2018-05-02T04:12:06+0000
Building games that can be understood at a glance
I've been making games on the iphone for a long time, almost since the beginning... and one thing that struck me early on was how differently I discovered iPhone games versus games on other platforms.
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Posted on 2018-05-02T04:07:18+0000
The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End
Moves in global bond markets over the last few months suggest changing expectations about prices.
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Posted on 2018-04-29T17:44:07+0000
User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints
Let's say you have a web site which has logins of some sort. That's not too much of a stretch, right? I imagine many of the people reading this have crossed paths with such a thing in their careers. Have you ever really thought about how those logins are stored internally in terms of data structures...
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Posted on 2018-04-29T17:40:53+0000
A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal
Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie’s proposal for “CLEAR”. I’m quoted at the end of the piece (saying nothing much), so I knew the piece was coming. …
Click to view the original at blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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Posted on 2018-04-28T19:21:12+0000
Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case, DA's office says
Sacramento investigators tracked down East Area Rapist suspect Joseph James DeAngelo using genealogical websites that contained DNA information from a relative, the District Attorney's Office said Thursday, April 26, 2018.
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Posted on 2018-04-28T17:45:47+0000
Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity
This picture may appear to be a collection of color fields without meaning or purpose, but there is a ton of math and evil genius behind this image. This is a view of Magnasanti, the metropolis tha…
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Posted on 2018-04-28T17:43:55+0000
Authorities have been looking for the Golden State Killer for 40 years. They've arrested an ex-cop
Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, has been identified as the so-called Golden State Killer believed to have committed 12 killings and at least 50 rapes across California from 1976 to 1986, authorities said.
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Posted on 2018-04-26T17:56:08+0000
Why I've lost faith in p values
There has been a lot written over the past decade (and even longer) about problems associated with null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) and p values. Personally, I have found most of these arguments unconvincing. However, one of the problems with p values has been gnawing at
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Posted on 2018-04-25T11:10:30+0000
The Top Jobs Where Women Are Outnumbered by Men Named John
Our Glass Ceiling Index finds skewed gender representation and ethnic sameness in many institutions of American politics, culture and education.
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Posted on 2018-04-24T17:37:17+0000