1.04: Disneyland with the Death Penalty
We sent William Gibson to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future.
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A harsh critique of Singapore by William Gibson (1993)
Posted on 2015-01-06T02:31:04+0000
Moonpig vulnerability
Moonpig are one of the most well known companies that sell personalised greeting cards in the UK. In 2007 they had a 90% market share and shipped nearly 6 million cards. In July 2011 they were bought by PhotoBox. I've...
The California Sunday Magazine
The California Sunday Magazine. January 4, 2015.
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"Whittier, Alaska, is a town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in a 14-story former Army barracks built in 1956. "
Posted on 2015-01-06T00:40:09+0000
Joost's Dev Blog: What most young programmers need to learn
joostdevblog.blogspot.com
Scores Killed in Taliban Attack on School in Pakistan
In one of Pakistan’s bloodiest attacks in recent years, scores of people were killed after Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said, and hundreds of students remained trapped inside.
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Sometimes you just don't have the words to express your feelings. Or they're just not appropriate for a public forum.
145 kids...
Posted on 2014-12-16T17:38:30+0000
Audience Insights query engine: In-memory integer store for social analytics
A query engine with a hybrid integer store that organizes data in memory and on flash disks so that a query can process terabytes of data in real time.
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In case anyone was wondering about the sort of things l'll work on - this is a post by the Insights team on Audience Insights and all the glorious technical details behind it.
Posted on 2014-12-12T03:49:42+0000
Bay Area braces for powerful storm
The Bay Area, which last month had seen hardly more than a few sprinkles since spring, was hit with a bout of storms last week that brought upward of 3 inches of rain to most cities and 6 inches to the hills. The National Weather Service has issued a high wind and flash flood advisory for late Wedne…
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I should perhaps actually stock up on some food just in case (empty Fridge, I'm looking at you)
Posted on 2014-12-10T18:49:26+0000
GoodGame Agency
I was never much of a team sports kid. I grew up in Philadelphia (where it's culturally impossible to not passionately support your local sports teams), but when it came to actually competing, team sports weren't my thing. I was a math, science, and music kind of kid, which meant that aside from alw…
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Twitch acquires goodgame (owners of EG, Alliance, Tinker).
I did not see this coming
Posted on 2014-12-10T02:06:39+0000
memcpy, memmove, and memset are deprecated! « Modern Maintainable Code
Summary: While they won't produce incorrect results when used appropriately, the mem* family of ...
Intense storm to wallop Bay Area on Wednesday
An intense storm — expected to cause widespread damage and flooding — will slam the Bay Area with heavy rain and high winds midway through the week, forecasters said. Winds in some areas will gust up to 50 mph and close to 4 inches of rain may drench urban areas, said Steve Anderson, a forecaster wi…