Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous
Alongside technical skills, America needs the creativity that a liberal arts education provides.
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Posted on 2015-03-31T23:49:45+0000
Suburbs such as Montgomery County rethink transit to court millennials
Concerns gained urgency when Marriott said it would move partly because workers want Metro access.
Hasnain says:
We should just get public transit and/or self driving cars everywhere.
Driving sucks, and the amount of time/energy/effort people waste driving is outrageous. It would just be better if people could be productive, or just relax and not waste mental effort driving or being stuck in traffic.
Also, I think smartphone use contributes to people not wanting to drive as much...
Posted on 2015-03-31T21:03:58+0000
Stop using tail -f (mostly)
Stop using tail -f (mostly) - Stop using tail -f
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Posted on 2015-03-31T19:43:04+0000
China's Man-on-the-Side Attack on GitHub - NETRESEC Blog
On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These inc…
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Posted on 2015-03-31T18:18:19+0000
Google #PacMaps
Nom nom nom-Join the game!
gregoryszorc.com
gregoryszorc.com
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This is a great recap of a talk on Infrastructure at Scale at Facebook
Posted on 2015-03-29T20:33:26+0000
A court case so secret, US Govt says it can't go on - Business - NZ Herald News
Imagine that someone has wronged you, and you sue them. - New Zealand Herald
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT Mike Solomon OpenWRT is a powerful Linux distribution for embedded devices, such as my router, and this is the story of how I used it to double my bandwidth at no extra cost to myself. How? By doubling the number of Internet connections I have. My setup M…
TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations' laws
A new Wikileaks-published leak from the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty reveals a January 2015 draft "Investment Chapter" of the agreement, where the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms are set out. They allow companies to repeal nations' environmental, health and la…
The man who proved Stephen Hawking wrong
He grew up in grinding poverty and was forever in trouble at school. So how did Leonard Susskind become one of the world’s greatest physicists?
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:The day that Leonard Susskind decided he was not going to follow his father into the family plumbing business, his parents were appalled. “My father was a tough guy,” says Prof Susskind with a chuckle. “He said: ‘What do you want to be: a ballet dancer?’ I said: ‘No, I don’t want to be a ballet dancer, I want to be a physicist.’ He said: ‘You aint going to work in no drugstore.’ I said: ‘No, not a pharmacist, a physicist.’ He said: ‘What’s a physicist?’ I said: ‘Like Einstein.’ That shook him and from that moment he got it. My mother was crying and saying, ‘We’re going to be broke,’ and he just looked at her and said: ‘Shut up – he’s going to be Einstein.’”"
Posted on 2015-03-28T17:24:01+0000