The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
When the giant fault line along the Pacific Northwest ruptures, it could be our worst natural disaster ever.
Hasnain says:
A really engrossing article.
"That problem is not specific to earthquakes, of course. The Cascadia situation, a calamity in its own right, is also a parable for this age of ecological reckoning, and the questions it raises are ones that we all now face. How should a society respond to a looming crisis of uncertain timing but of catastrophic proportions? How can it begin to right itself when its entire infrastructure and culture developed in a way that leaves it profoundly vulnerable to natural disaster?"
Posted on 2015-07-14T02:33:43+0000
The Electric Car
The electric car is going to take over the world. Soon. Let me explain. 75% of US consumers and over 85% of US millennials own smartphones. Perhaps more amazing is that 1/4 of people in the...
Hasnain says:
Makes some good points though I think it's still a bit too hopeful
Posted on 2015-07-14T02:25:22+0000
singleton-considered-stupid - steveyegge2
Design Patterns was a great book, no question. It's still in my Top Ten List of books every programmer should read. It's a beautifully crafted book, and I get a rush of nostalgia when I read through it, ten years since it was published. It was a seminal work, groundbreaking, something that revolutio…
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Posted on 2015-07-13T06:22:32+0000
7 Rejections
On June 26, 2008, our friend Michael Seibel introduced us to 7 prominent investors in Silicon Valley. We were attempting…
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Posted on 2015-07-12T22:26:39+0000
The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America
How a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped fix Healthcare.gov
Hasnain says:
"It also indexed family members by presuming everyone would have a unique birthday—meaning twins couldn’t both have accounts."
How the original programmers even thought they could legitimately charge for that is beyond belief.
Posted on 2015-07-12T05:44:05+0000
If you've got nothing to hide... - Jacques Mattheij
The Past Since 1851 Amsterdam had a registry that recorded the following innocent pieces of data about the residents: Name, Date of birth, Address, …
Hasnain says:
"When you say I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide, that is no different than saying I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say or freedom of the press because I have nothing to write."
- Edward Snowden
New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism - TechRaptor
The New York Time's has become the latest journalistic organization to show the dangers of internet journalism and rewriting of stories.
Hasnain says:
It's insanely dishonest if you rewrite the whole story (and change the title!) and keep it at the same url.
Posted on 2015-07-11T19:35:37+0000
Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid
Is the best way to curb crime a widespread program in cognitive behavioral therapy?
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Posted on 2015-07-11T19:29:20+0000
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2!
Playing Witcher 3, a GPU-intensive game on a 2015 fanless Macbook
Hasnain says:
I wonder whether this is worth trying out in lieu of a gaming pc for the less hardcore games.
Posted on 2015-07-11T19:25:36+0000
The decline of Stack Overflow
How trolls have taken over your favorite programming Q&A site