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631.
The Eye of the Storm(thecritic.co.uk)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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Approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers(brewster.kahle.org)
58 points by panic 6y ago|73 comments
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Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy (2015)(nytimes.com)
3 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
> We survived that. Just because we survived something doesn't mean we weren't affected by it. I'm not saying this is what you're doing here, but this argument -- I survived this, so you can too -- is often deploye
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by panic 6y ago
It's pretty hard to get a computer to do what you want. You're at the mercy of whatever software is installed, and most of this software is "stupidity-amplifying" rather than "intelligence-amplifying" -- espec
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by panic 6y ago
Has anyone here learned a subject by going through one of these "teach yourself" lists? I've learned most of what I know about computers on my own, but it wasn't from following a list of textbooks. And when I've t
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What are some examples of people working alone on a project for 10+ years?(reddit.com)
13 points by panic 6y ago|1 comments
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by panic 6y ago
The HOPL paper is available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386332 (the PDF link even works without an institutional login!)
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The Worst API Ever Made (2014)(caseymuratori.com)
48 points by panic 6y ago|9 comments
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by panic 6y ago
I love the idea of a game engine with multiplayer built in from the start. It reminds me a bit of MUD engines for text-based games back in the day. Interested to see where this goes!
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Why Is the NYPD So Powerful?(rossbarkan.substack.com)
104 points by panic 6y ago|75 comments
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Cached Software Rendering(rxi.github.io)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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Designing the Super Mario Maker-Inspired I Wanna Maker(gamasutra.com)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
It's hard to believe that report when it doesn't name any of the people or organizations they met with. As far as I know, the protesters don't have any leaders that could negotiate on their behalf.
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by panic 6y ago
The police could stop the protests instantly by changing how they deal with racist officers and officers who kill people. They would rather escalate the situation than make these changes.
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Where Did Software Go Wrong?(blog.jse.li)
7 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong(thenation.com)
12 points by panic 6y ago|1 comments
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by panic 6y ago
Dealing with Google these days seems a lot like dealing with an authoritarian government. To operate safely on Google's platforms, you need a friend who works at Google who can vouch for you as their over-eager police keep trying to p
649.
by panic 6y ago
Jean Yang made a great analogy here: https://twitter.com/jeanqasaur/status/1262833050473259009 > Programming languages researchers are like fashion designers and "research languages" like Haskell and
650.
by panic 6y ago
I just wish these large organizations would be held accountable for failing to perform the single task we rely on them to do. The College Board has one job -- to administer exams. Experian has one job -- to keep financial data. But when
651.
by panic 6y ago
I can't believe anyone is still considering $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY in $CURRENT_YEAR. We at $NO_PROFIT_STARTUP gave it our best shot, but the bugs they mention aren't as small as they seem -- they completely sank the project. At this
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All I Want for Christmas Is a Revolutionary Apple TV (2017)(tolmasky.com)
1 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
Another helpful meta tag is <meta charset=utf-8> Without this, your document may be interpreted using an implementation-defined ASCII-like encoding (e.g., windows-1252 for English-speaking locales) if served without a Content
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by panic 6y ago
The constitution guarantees a right to vote; laws against returning other people's ballots have been found unconsitutional on those grounds: https://apnews.com/d6b75b7a1c2da695d756cb4e864cd2b8 (full opinion if you&#x27
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We Need to Talk About Digital Contact Tracing(ali-alkhatib.com)
2 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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by panic 6y ago
The section of the WHATWG HTML spec about parsing XHTML begins with this note: > An XML parser, for the purposes of this specification, is a construct that follows the rules given in XML to map a string of bytes or characters into a Doc
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by panic 6y ago
How people live isn't entirely their own decision -- it's also determined by the world they're a part of. We've given profit-seeking systems a lot of control over how this world is structured.
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Pandemic, Parents, and Schools(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
3 points by panic 6y ago|0 comments
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Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees(shachaf.net)
420 points by panic 6y ago|69 comments
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by panic 6y ago
This is an interesting argument! Wouldn't it also work for positions, though? That is, either the universe is finite, or, since there can't be a uniform distribution over an infinite space of positions, there must be some prefer

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