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Herman Melville at Home(newyorker.com)
14 points by kwindla 7y ago|2 comments
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Herman Melville at Home(newyorker.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” remains my favorite (and very funny) exploration of this.
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The Slackification of the American Home(theatlantic.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
Peter Hessler's books about contemporary China are super-interesting reading. He's a very low-key, but deeply informed cultural translator. In all his books, he focuses on the stories and lives of the people he meets and gets to k
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation Unveils the Raspberry Pi 4(techcrunch.com)
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Memory Does Not Belong to the Victors(versobooks.com)
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Too Much of the World Cup Is Just Soccer Failing to Get Out of Its Own Way(deadspin.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
Bloomberg's "Business of Bees" podcast is great: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/business_of_bees They cover some of the issues relating to honeybee colony collapse.
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by kwindla 7y ago
Rollup is worth a look, too. I'm using it now instead of webpack for all my new/small-ish/experimental js projects: https://rollupjs.org/guide/en/
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Africa’s Lost Kingdoms(nybooks.com)
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The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Freedom Gas”(slate.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
Thanks for posting that code! Definitely similar experience here. We handle ~10 million messages a day in a pubsub system quite similar in spirit to the above, running on AWS Aurora MySQL. Our system isn't a queue. We track a little bi
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Swagger and Pomp: Jamaica’s Dancehall Style (2017)(nybooks.com)
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Can Data Be Human? The Work of Giorgia Lupi(newyorker.com)
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Housing Supply Became the Most Controversial Issue in Urbanism(citylab.com)
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Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight (2009)(newyorker.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
William Gibson's favorite fashion designer. :-)
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by kwindla 7y ago
> There are few requirements for being a production line worker at Foxconn. As long as you are educated to the age of 15, are aged between 16 and a half and 40, and are not Uygur or Tibetan, you’re welcome to apply I guess I should have
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Errolson Hugh Sees the Future(gq.com)
1 points by kwindla 7y ago|1 comments
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Two amateur sleuths discover ancient rock art in the plains of India(nytimes.com)
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In Love with Multiplicity(nybooks.com)
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A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech(nytimes.com)
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Two amateur sleuths discover ancient rock art in the plains of India(nytimes.com)
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Build a HTTP Proxy in Haskell on AWS Lambda(medium.com)
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I Think Private Schools Should Be Banned(fivethirtyeight.com)
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The Race to Develop the Moon(newyorker.com)
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What I've learned working as a remote employee(daily.co)
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Creating a Slow Movie Player(medium.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
I posted this, and definitely wasn't thinking of it as clickbait, or even as controversial. As Dan says, I think this history is both intellectually interesting and relevant to my work as an engineer, today. Over time, as the technolog

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