My Asian Pussycat Parents
I was raised by a mom and dad who did not want me to worry about getting C’s as long as I was happy in college and beyond.
Hasnain says:
"This academic edge, however, comes at a hefty cost. Asian-American students have higher rates of suicidal ideation than white college students, and these pernicious thoughts translate into behavior. At Cornell University, there were 21 on-campus suicides from 1999 to 2006, 13 of which were Asian students. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where 16 percent of students are Asian, Asians accounted for 42 percent of student suicides in the last 15 years."
Posted on 2016-10-18T01:48:22+0000
The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help
James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley writes that colleges that hoard cash—endowments of $2 million per student—should be encouraged to spend it.
Programming Game AI By Example (Wordware Game Developers Library)
Programming Game AI by Example provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the “bread and butter” AI techniques used by the game development industry, leading the reader through the process of designing, programming, and implementing intelligent agents for action games us...
Be Kind
One Friday afternoon, early in my career, I was wrapping up some new features for the back-end of a client’s Rails app. Simple stuff. Confident in my work, I deployed the changes, closed my laptop, and drove out of town for a weekend of camping with friends. I had just arrived when my phone rang. It...
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Posted on 2016-10-16T17:27:11+0000
Taking PHP Seriously
by Keith Adams, Slack Engineering
Simple, visceral, fun: why the ancient sport of kabaddi is enjoying a resurgence
India is hosting the first Kabaddi World Cup for nine years, and a once quaint pastime – a mix of red rover, wrestling and tag – is getting a makeover
Hasnain says:
I had no idea Kabaddi had a world cup and that apparently 200M people watch it.
The list of competing countries is also surprising:
"Teams from 12 countries – India, Iran, Bangladesh, Thailand, the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, England, Poland, Kenya, and Argentina – are competing in the first edition of the Kabaddi World Cup in nine years, and the first since its revolution into a modern sporting enterprise."
Posted on 2016-10-13T15:23:10+0000
Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars
"We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America's story in space," writes the President, "sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth."
Hasnain says:
"Editor's note: Barack Obama is President of the United States."
... I'll take "pointless editor's notes" for $100, Alex.
Posted on 2016-10-11T16:40:19+0000
Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
Samsung said it would permanently discontinue production and sales of its embattled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. Potential losses to Samsung could wipe out the mobile division’s operating profits for the fourth quarter, according to one estimate.
Hasnain says:
Would love to see the incident report / postmortem on this
Posted on 2016-10-11T16:37:03+0000
Trump: Warren Buffett avoids taxes like me. Buffett: Nope, and here's my taxes to prove it.
What a burn.
Hasnain says:
"As a final knife-twist, Buffett notes that he is currently being audited — but releasing information from his return anyway, since that is totally allowed, despite Trump's protests to the contrary."
Posted on 2016-10-11T04:58:04+0000
An open source font system for everyone
Posted by Xiangye Xiao and Bob Jung, Internationalization A big challenge in sharing digital information around the world is “tofu”—the bl...