How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers – Alan Jay Levinovitz | Aeon Essays
By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience
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Posted on 2017-07-24T04:01:58+0000
Opinion | Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance!
Innovation is overrated. When it comes to technology, we need to celebrate upkeep.
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Posted on 2017-07-24T02:24:39+0000
Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies – ThinkGrowth.org
I was visiting with an ex-student who’s now the CFO of a large public tech company. The company is still one of the hottest places to work…
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Worth a read. This is really interesting and I couldn't pick out a single quote
Posted on 2017-07-22T03:42:28+0000
Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary
Mr. Spicer quit after telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of the financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
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Posted on 2017-07-21T18:51:47+0000
Meet The 82-Year-Old App Developer Who Says Life Gets Better With Age
Masako Wakamiya started learning to code this year and has released her first app. What have you done?
Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump
President Trump discussed a range of issues, including the Russia investigation, with three New York Times reporters in the Oval Office.
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Posted on 2017-07-20T06:59:14+0000
'Hans gayi aur phans gayi': On the mechanics of laughter and sexual harassment
Everyone laughs but the feminists. Who are humourless.
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Posted on 2017-07-20T06:48:11+0000
Terminal and shell performance
There’s a great MSR demo from 2012 that shows the effect of latency on the experience of using a tablet. If you don’t want to watch the three minute video, they basically created a device which could simulate arbitrary latencies down to a fraction of a millisecond. At 100ms (1/10th of a second), whi...
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Posted on 2017-07-19T07:20:31+0000
Alienation 101
There were hopes that the flood of Chinese students into America would bring the countries closer. But a week at the University of Iowa suggested to Brook Larmer that the opposite may have happened
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Posted on 2017-07-18T06:36:55+0000
How Uber's Hard-Charging Corporate Culture Left Employees Drained
After a highly publicized corporate meltdown this spring, Uber is working to repair a culture that employees and observers say is aggressive, cutthroat, and demanding. But years of putting out fires 2
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A great piece on a cut-throat corporate culture.
The following bit really made me grateful for the blameless SEV review process we have at FB:
"In May 2015, an on-call engineer failed to respond to alerts about an issue with a master database. As a result, Uber suffered a service outage that affected operations teams worldwide: Drivers signing up to drive couldn’t be onboarded to Uber’s platform, and employees couldn’t respond to rider requests for help.
At the time, Uber had recently reached a valuation of $50 billion. Stakes were high, and CTO Thuan Pham used a companywide email to let staff know the cost of a mistake like that."
"“We try to have a blameless postmortem,” said one engineer. “That email from Thuan [...] was great example of not following that.” Besides, the employee added, “if you’ve been woken up at 3 a.m. for the last five days, and you’re only sleeping three to four hours a day, and you make a mistake, how much at fault are you, really?”"
Posted on 2017-07-18T05:26:16+0000