How Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
On March 3rd, during a large East Coast winter storm, I headed to the ocean to capture some wave action. My travels eventually took me to Great Island Comm
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Posted on 2018-03-09T05:20:18+0000
How I Potty Trained My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
Walkthrough of an IoT Potty Button which makes a phone call when a kid has to go. With Python, Twilio, AWS IoT, Lambda and an IoT Button build one-touch alerts to make a phone call. Includes sample code and links to build your own poop button or extend the idea.
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The Internet of (shitty) things, now with a technical manual
Posted on 2018-03-08T06:46:44+0000
Into the Breach’s interface was a nightmare to make and the key to its greatness
Into the Breach's user interface is one of its greatest strengths but building it was one of the developer's greatest challenges
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This was a great read on UI/UX.
"“Just as a game design principle, we would sacrifice cool ideas for the sake of clarity every time,” says Ma. “If it can be shown in a clear way, yes, we can have that.”"
Posted on 2018-03-07T19:54:42+0000
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie To Juries Or Brutally Beat Civilians And Still Keep Their Jobs
Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
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Well this is scary.
"But in secret, after an investigation into Deluca’s arrest and the stomping incident a year later, Marrero pleaded guilty to multiple department charges, including striking an individual with “no legitimate police purpose,” “making unnecessary physical contact,” and “providing inaccurate, incomplete misleading answers” to department investigators, according to the files BuzzFeed News obtained.
Yet the NYPD commissioner at the time, Ray Kelly, decided that wasn’t a reason to fire him. Instead he was put on dismissal probation and he forfeited 45 vacation days.
Marrero remains on the force today, earning almost $120,000 last year. He continues to patrol the streets, making dozens of arrests since he was found guilty by the department."
Posted on 2018-03-06T06:12:52+0000
Fair Is Not the Default
Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions
How not to run a CA – The Isoblog.
How not to run a CA Published by kris on 2018-03-01 Trustico is an SSL reseller, which just compromised 23.000 certificates they sold. TL;DR: Forget your EV or other certs. Just run “Let’s Encrypt”. It gets you a cert, it’s fresh, and it does not make any difference whatsoever. At least not ...
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All I can say is: "lol".
This guy basically just destroyed all trust in his own company.
Posted on 2018-03-01T20:57:57+0000
On Age DE's pathing/movement
Typical Age DE forum post: The pathfinding in the game is terrible. First off, Age of Empires Definitive Edition is a remaster of...
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Did the people complaining about the pathfinding in the game not play the original? It was just *as bad* as the original, which makes sense since they wanted to stay faithful to it.
Posted on 2018-03-01T18:02:23+0000
Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called
Police in Allen Parish, Louisiana, searched a student’s home after a group of high-schoolers discussed how the square-root sign could look like a gun.
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This whole story is sad.
Additional gem in the article:
> Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.
... how does the article writer not know how to explain what a square root is.
Posted on 2018-02-24T00:17:31+0000
NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle
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BYTEPATH #0 - Introduction · Issue #30 · SSYGEN/blog
Introduction This tutorial series will cover the creation of a complete game with Lua and LÖVE. It's aimed at programmers who have some experience but are just starting out with game development, o...
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Bookmarking for future reading. Game dev tutorial using Lua
Posted on 2018-02-18T20:32:34+0000