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Equally revealing on how submitted interview tasks can have exploitable business value.
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Autonomous Boat Crosses from UK to Belgium(bbc.co.uk)
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Worth clarifying the curators of this text are Emma Lewis and Devin Zuckerman from the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, and not Google, as the article misleadingly suggests.
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You're probably right. Over time I conflate the concepts found in games like Skool Daze, Make a Chip, My Name is Uncle Groucho, Software Star, Grand National and suchlike that brought together semi-prosaic simulation tasks with a start
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Forklifts were a highlight for me. When you took Ryu to the arcade to play Space Harrier etc there's a well-established if indirect teasing of the fourth wall. After spending in-game money to beat your in-game (in-game) high score, you
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While we should certainly take care about the definition of ethical here, this remains a great list of 'alternatives to mainstream stuff' that mainstream users should be made more aware of. I'm interested in this topic and st
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No wonder the public feel powerless. The options are so obfuscated behind political complexity AND ever-changing that a simple voter (me) can't hope to keep up. The moment you half-understand a scenario it is outdated, the days it take
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I'm not suggesting it as a primary cause, I'm offering it as an explanatory factor that is not coincidental. The network effects statement is both true and relatively unimportant, considering prior social and chat networks had per
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Ha, but that wasn't quite the theory I espoused... 1. Facebook was social at the core, and succeeded while still small. 2. Their efforts in this space were proactive 3. Google tried to add social much later, while already massive. 4.
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By maintaining >50% engineering staff for so long, Google has inadvertently created a fascinating study of the interplay between two spectrums: autistic and psychopathic. More on the similarities and differences here, namely aspects rela
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For most Googlers it's all they use...
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An earlier version of this article (yesterday) repeatedly referred to these participants as skateboarders; a mistake exposing the writer's general ignorance and the publisher's disinterest. For Huck, street culture is a single con
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I first and best understood Jasper Johns in particular 'Flag' (1954 onwards) through viewing a documentary as a teenager. The narrator described 'Flag' as many things: a flag, a painting, a sculptural object, a commentar
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While I admire the author's attempt to bring structural clarity to a broad concept, greater clarity can perhaps be found by broadening it further still. Anyone who has refurbished a house will live and breathe examples of technical deb
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They are secret in that you could live your life and career without encountering them if you never looked, despite them being around you and running things, should you choose to look.
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In addition, the problems he now chooses to work on may not prove to be so important, as the very same motivation he lost at Amazon will remain missing until near the end of his runway. Thus I can foresee an abstract quality to problem-sele
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Glad to see lane design mentioned, it's a key component. In most zipper merge opportunities there is a predominant lane and another lane that is ending, leading to the idea of a 'right' and a 'wrong' lane which prec
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As an employee on another team, I remember at launch when the extended Plus team got flown to Hawaii to celebrate, around the time their marketing made its way on to the homepage. I sat incredulous, back in the office with my colleagues thi
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Would be interesting to consider what a digital version of this looks like. The concept is entrancing, but very structured towards physical labour and travel. How not to be found, thinking on your wits, working in exchange for food and acco
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Skated regularly for 31 years, in many countries, with thousands of others. Skateboarders are not nerdy. The accessibility of skateboarding puts it leagues ahead of an expensive sport possible only in certain locations at certain times of y
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RR Buildings How to Build a Garage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwUl4cm8fQ&list=PLvo-lhQgsI... This YouTube series (in fact his channel in general) makes construction look simple, accessible and rewarding. He explai
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Sorry, also no. Let me be clear, museum partners would not sign contracts - and thus the project would not exist - if these stipulations about preventing downloading were not met. It was a dealbreaker across the board, and Google's com
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No one ever complained of flickr "Oh it's okay but you need to see the real thing", so it's interesting how this viewpoint is absolutely medium-specific. I would argue plenty of paintings are better viewed online, sculpt
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Don't dismiss the fidelity challenges even when at a physical gallery looking at original works of art. Glazing, lighting, signage, height, framing, decor, noise, other people and many other factors can reduce the fidelity of experienc
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I was deeply involved in the project for 5 years and the reason you can't download from it is because museum partners don't want you to. All the image security you find there comes from partner requests. If it's irritating, d
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Google Arts & Culture [1] aspires to this, and does a great job to a certain extent, however not at scale or in the long tail. For their own reasons institutions have resisted mass uploads to Google - despite the theoretical marriage of
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The advent of digital accessibility is far more impactful for local museums in smaller markets. These institutions now have access to global audiences who may never have heard of the museum (or even the town / city), would certainly ne
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For thousands of years ice and snow have been gathered in winter and stored for various summer usages in purpose-built structures, ideally underground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)
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Despite a strong interest in Brutalism I couldn't make it through because of all this
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Watched from the sidelines as Jane invented an early version of Sugru at college in 2003/4. Everyone I knew (and me) thought she was completely bonkers, developing a weird substance that didn't seem to do anything but make a horri

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