knowtheory

9 ms·

61.
Static AMP page(idlewords.com)
19 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
62.
Before Ahmed’s fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority(dallasnews.com)
1 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
63.
Moebio Framework is a JavaScript toolkit for data analysis and creating visualizations(moebiolabs.github.io)
3 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
64.
Today is the last day to apply to be an OpenNews fellow(opennews.org)
2 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
65.
Apply to Become a 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellow – Knight-Mozilla OpenNews(opennews.org)
4 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
66.
by knowtheory 11y ago
It's nice that you can opt out of working with PDFs but that's not an option for a large portion of the world.
67.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Sure. Everybody brings themselves and their assumptions to a conversation. All conversations are a negotiation over a shared space (however temporarily we may share that space). I'm not calling into question whether you believe harass
68.
Hacking Team Asks Customers to Stop Using Its Software After Hack(motherboard.vice.com)
8 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
69.
by knowtheory 11y ago
You're clearly not interested in actually engaging in a conversation, so, like i said before, i hope you can find ways to be excellent to others. Have a good one.
70.
by knowtheory 11y ago
I'm sorry, why is that question a relevant one? Would it matter to the author whether it was one person or many in her specific case? Would it make the harassment any less troubling or alarming? Would it matter to the general case, si
71.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Skepticism is disbelieving something. Putting forward a conspiracy theory with literally no evidence (and evidence to the contrary) is not skepticism.
72.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Tim Hunt is a nobel prize winner. He already made his career. And the thing he was asked to resign from as an honorary position so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Please, please, PLEASE show me some evidence that I am wrong. I already did. Your th
73.
by knowtheory 11y ago
That's some fucked up gas-lighting dude. Kathy Sierra explicitly called out one of her harassers weev and his posse (def not what you'd call a "Social Justice Warrior", and weev initially copped to harassing her and has
74.
by knowtheory 11y ago
for what it's worth, that was neither flippant, nor snark. A lot of people listen to Dr. Oz and he has promoted the use of palm oil as healthy.
75.
by knowtheory 11y ago
The FDA's ban on transfat is almost entirely after the fact. Transfats have been on the outs for a long time, and their use has declined in accordance. The rise in the use of palm oil has more to do with people thinking that because i
76.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Hey Dan, Paul Ford and his editor Josh Tyrangiel went on Charlie Rose's show last week to talk about the essay, and you can get some sense of Tyrangiel's acquisition of the topic: http://www.bloomberg.com/news&#x2F
77.
Apply to Become a 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellow – Knight-Mozilla OpenNews(opennews.org)
1 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
78.
by knowtheory 11y ago
DocumentCloud | Data Engineer | Remote (we're in -0500 & -0400 UTC) | Full-time We're hiring a full-time remote dev to focus on our document/data analysis & processing stack. DocumentCloud is a collaborative tool for
79.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Zed's book is concretely about introducing programmers (particularly new ones or ones going from higher level managed languages down into C) to where and how C can be dangerous especially around string management. And that's why t
80.
by knowtheory 11y ago
The full quote is "Let me start by saying that unlike Mr. Shaw, I am not a writer. I'm an engineer. Thus, this will be written from that perspective." By implication, Zed's book is not written from the POV of an engineer
81.
by knowtheory 11y ago
At this point people just keep trying to pick fights with Zed. He's not out there picking fights with others (well any more than anyone else). And all of the posts pointing this out all disclaim that "while they don't agree
82.
by knowtheory 11y ago
If that were the case you would expect to find that adoption did very weird things to educational attainment in families. And i can't find any evidence to assert that that's the case. "Genetics is the most important ingredie
83.
The difference between 18F and USDS(ben.balter.com)
14 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
84.
Daily Breeze pulitzer: One winner left journalism because he couldn't pay rent(slate.com)
1 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
85.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Strong enough? Github decided to do something. Nobody forced them to do it. They decided. We also don't know on what terms they decided to take that repository down. Positioning feminism as an outside pressure group that is more p
86.
by knowtheory 11y ago
> How many repos they took down that weren't malicious in any way, but simply didn't gel with the tech industry's current strongly pro-feminist attitude? Through precisely which mechanisms do you believe that repositories
87.
by knowtheory 11y ago
> Is it really conceivable that women are abandoning well paid careers in business and other areas to become yoga instructors? Or life coaches? Or re-training in psychology? Or starting their own home businesses on etsy or similar? Yes.
88.
by knowtheory 11y ago
Yeah, one of the huge problems our field has is that it doesn't give people a solid sense of how you upgrade your skills and what kind of waypoint you're at relative to others (and that that's okay!). It is magnificent to enc
89.
Sloppy P.R. charticles considered harmful » Nieman Journalism Lab(niemanlab.org)
2 points by knowtheory 11y ago|0 comments
90.
by knowtheory 11y ago
That's an interesting idea, but again, problem is that most journalism isn't done for video right now (not to say that there's none. There is a fair amount, just definitely not anywhere near the majority of either video prod

More ›