The Myth That Americans Are Busier Than Ever
"How did we get so busy?" the New Yorker asks. Let's define busy. And, while we're at it, let's define we, too.
Ripe For Disruption - Jacques Mattheij
Disruption is something that you can usually only establish after the fact. A decade later or so you can look back and say ‘x’ disrupted …
sean cassidy : Meditations
Last year I started reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius1. While I was reading it, I was struck at how many of the entries were just simple reminders to himself. Don't get mad at people unnecessarily. Remember that you are just one of many. Don't get distracted.He was making the same mistakes over…
Hasnain says:
These are amazing quotes that every software person should follow.
Posted on 2014-05-22T03:44:45+0000
ZeniMax Media Inc
ZeniMax Media Inc
Hasnain says:
"ZENIMAX MEDIA INC. AND ID SOFTWARE LLC FILE SUIT AGAINST OCULUS VR, INC. AND ITS FOUNDER, PALMER LUCKEY"
This could get ugly.
Posted on 2014-05-22T03:42:48+0000
Arcade Story | stevenf.com
Arcade Story2014-05-21This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclina…
Hasnain says:
"Maybe that’s what streaming games on Twitch is like for the current generation of kids. But even knowing that 60 people from around the world are watching you set new records in Call of Duty, I wonder how it stacks up to an actual crowd of people standing directly behind you, as you listen to them whispering to each other about how good this kid is at this game."
Posted on 2014-05-22T03:40:10+0000
The Reykjavik Confessions
The mystery of why six people admitted links to two murders - when they couldn't remember anything about the crimes.
Hasnain says:
Riveting.
"I’ve worked on miscarriages of justice in many different countries. I’ve testified in several countries - hundreds of cases I’ve done, big cases. I’d never come across any case where there had been such intense interrogation, so many interrogations and such lengthy solitary confinement. I mean I was absolutely shocked when I saw that.”
Posted on 2014-05-22T00:16:02+0000
The greatest bug I never fixed
Bugs ain't fun. Except when they are. This is the story of the greatest bug I never fixed. In an earlier life I wrote addons for World of Warcraft. Aside from being addicted to the game at the time, it was a mindblowing experience for someone obsessed with plugin architectures and the evolution of p…
Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth | | InformIT
To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of <em><a href="/promotions/impact-of-the-art-of-computer-programming-139881">The Art of Computer Programming, </a></em> (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Dona…
Hasnain says:
This is absolute gold, everyone should read it.
"I did write a compiler manual in 1958, which by chance was actually used as the textbook for one of my classes in 1959(!)"
For clarification, he was a student in that class, not the professor...
Posted on 2014-05-21T17:55:38+0000
StaticGen
StaticGen is a leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators. Promoting a static approach to building websites.
Welcome - football.db - Open Football Data
A free open public domain football (soccer) database & schema for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain text fixtures/data sets). Example: