Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist | Do the Math
Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Posted on 2012-04-10 by tmurphy 67 views this month; 0 overall Some while back, I found myself sitting next to an accomplished economics professor at a dinner event. Shortly after pleasantries, I said to him, “economic growth cannot continue indefinitely,…
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This is 3 years old. But well worth reading for everyone, especially economists (not to drag on the profession); given how everything is about growth
"Physicist: Wow. Do you really believe that? A physically limited resource (read scarcity) that is fundamental to every economic activity becomes arbitrarily cheap? [turns attention to food on the plate, somewhat stunned]
Economist: [after pause to consider] Yes, I do believe that."
Posted on 2015-09-14T06:49:50+0000
Gaffer on Games | Is it just me or is networking really hard?
Posted on September 12, 2015 by Glenn Fiedler Is it just me or is networking really hard? Last week I found this discussion on Reddit: I’ve been trying to understand and implement networking in a game for the last few months, and every attempt I make at it has some kind of flaw; whether that’s unrel…
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"And yet, here we are in 2015 and there are still a bunch of people out there who just don’t [bleep] get it."
Posted on 2015-09-13T18:37:12+0000
An Uber support experience
This post was prompted by the automated support feedback email. I recently opened the Uber app to find it had forgot my authentication and was prompting me for a password. Unfortunately there were …
U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China
All charges against the Temple University professor were dropped after it became apparent the Justice Department had misinterpreted a key piece of evidence.
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"It was an embarrassing acknowledgment that prosecutors and F.B.I. agents did not understand — and did not do enough to learn — the science at the heart of the case before bringing charges that jeopardized Dr. Xi’s career and left the impression that he was spying for China."
Will anyone be getting fired over this?
Posted on 2015-09-13T18:30:04+0000
16GB is a Bad User Experience - David Smith
16GB is a Bad User Experience September 10th, 2015 Yesterday Apple announced the fall lineup of new hardware, including the iPhone 6s/6s Plus. Overall the announcements were pretty solid, with one bright, glaring exception…the base model iPhone starting at 16GB. This detail makes me both sad and a b…
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Posted on 2015-09-13T09:57:18+0000
AWS in Plain English
But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided that enough was enough and that some plain english descriptions were needed.
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Posted on 2015-09-11T16:27:14+0000
Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should
I'm James Hague, a recovering programmer who has been designing video games since the 1980s. Programming Without Being Obsessed With Programming and Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry are good starting points. For the older stuff, try the 2012 Retrospective.
‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
New human-like species discovered in S Africa - BBC News
Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new human-like species, which could change ideas about our early relatives.
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Posted on 2015-09-10T15:54:03+0000
The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
The Hardest Program I've Ever Written ↩ September 08, 2015 code dart The hardest program I’ve ever written, once you strip out the whitespace, is 3,835 lines long. That handful of code took me almost a year to write. Granted, that doesn’t take into account the code that didn’t make it. The commit hi…