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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem(nytimes.com)
269 points by metermaid 13y ago|227 comments
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by metermaid 13y ago
challen.ge is my favourite from the page; it'd be great for hackathons/competitions/any sort of challenging or educational app.
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by metermaid 13y ago
My favourite Mickens is The Night Watch: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw... "HCI people discover bugs by receiving a concerned email from their therapist. Systems people disc
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by metermaid 13y ago
I'm interpreting it as a portmanteau of green and red, which, set on black, are the predominant choices of hackers and terminals on movies and TV shows.
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Coursera partners with US State Department to create "Learning Hubs"(blog.coursera.org)
2 points by metermaid 13y ago|0 comments
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by metermaid 13y ago
I can't tell if you're trying to broaden the statement or disagreeing, but I find it more condescending when someone outside my minority is presuming to speak for it than when someone acknowledges the systematic discrimination tha
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by metermaid 13y ago
In all fairness, this is only an excerpt, so theoretically he could've asked followup questions in the full version from the magazine. On the other hand, the thoughtfulness of the questions excerpted do not bode well for the full versi
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Drone Culture and Elysium(grantland.com)
2 points by metermaid 13y ago|0 comments
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by metermaid 13y ago
I don't think that "how not to design a website" is quite fair-- they just haven't overhauled the design for over five years, and design trends have completely changed in the meantime. At the time, the current design was innovative (with Kh