Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax
How we went from depressive flannel and fog to anxiously monitoring our heart rates, twirling fidget spinners and streaming into meditation studios.
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Posted on 2017-06-11T17:45:54+0000
The Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed the course of history
This article has previously been published in Norwegian in Aftenposten Historie no. 6, 2015 and Biolog no, 1, 2014. Due to several reques...
Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich
Forget the 1 percent for a moment. It’s the top fifth that rules.
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Posted on 2017-06-11T17:18:26+0000
Uber Board to Discuss CEO Absence, Policy Changes: Source
Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] board will discuss Chief Executive Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the embattled ride-hailing firm and consider sweeping changes to the company's management practices at a meeting on Sunday, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Posted on 2017-06-11T06:56:45+0000
Games from Within - Independent game development
I haven’t written purely about tech in a long time, but this is a particularly interesting intersection of tech and game design, so I thought I would share it with everybody. Be warned though: This is one of those posts that’s just about the thought process I went through for something and the solut...
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Bookmarking for future use. I read like a dozen of these posts and all are great
Posted on 2017-06-11T00:34:43+0000
Houzz raising $400 million at $4 billion valuation
Home improvement platform Houzz continues to grow, and is in process of raising another huge round of funding. The company confirms that it is raising $400..
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Posted on 2017-06-10T08:44:26+0000
New Medium, New Rules: Video Advertising in the Mobile Age
Today, television is still a powerful medium where great creative work takes place. But now, it's in direct competition with mobile, a medium defined by the fact that beyond every household, every person has a screen, on their person, at all times.
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The numbers in the graph stood out. interesting piece.
Posted on 2017-06-09T19:22:02+0000
Jeremy Corbyn has caused a sensation – he would make a fine prime minister | Owen Jones
This was not about Tory failure. If Labour had offered the same old stale, technocratic centrism it would have faced an absolute drubbing
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Posted on 2017-06-09T15:06:22+0000
Rust Performance Pitfalls — Llogiq on stuff
Overall, Rust is pretty good for performance. Write the most simple stuff, and it will usually run within a factor of two from optimized C/C++ code. However, Rust makes some tradeoffs for different reasons than sheer speed, so here’s a handy list of some things that may bite you and how you can spee...
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Posted on 2017-06-08T16:21:58+0000
Options vs. cash
I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Snapchat. One thing I don’t understand about this claim is, if the claim is true, why shouldn’t the startup go to an investor, sel...