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Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship(cpj.org)
493 points by panic 7y ago|133 comments
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Cycles of Optimism and Pessimism(gopher.floodgap.com)
2 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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On Nexuses (2015)(devever.net)
3 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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Copyright, Culture, and Democracy(arp242.net)
2 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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Dear Map People(macwright.org)
3 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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by panic 7y ago
> It has various pronunciations: what-wee-gee, what-wig, what-double-you-gee. https://whatwg.org/faq#spell-and-pronounce
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by panic 7y ago
The biggest impact of WHATWG's work wasn't about features, but about defining HTML itself in a way that matched how web pages were written. Before HTML5, every browser parsed HTML in subtly incompatible ways. A document written
848.
by panic 7y ago
The way something looks can definitely change based on its rotation -- see http://thatchereffect.com for example.
849.
by panic 7y ago
This is a great example of how the in-group and out-group boundaries mentioned in the article are reinforced. "Look at this out-group nerd, writing all fancy! He's not cool like us, the in-group!"
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To what does the harmonic series converge? (2013) [pdf](maths.tcd.ie)
1 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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A City Is Not a Computer (2017)(placesjournal.org)
1 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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by panic 7y ago
This talk about programmable knitting machines is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02h74L1PmaU -- it goes into more depth about the details of their operation, including an absolutely wild and apparently offic
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Programming Language for Old Timers (2006)(users.rcn.com)
2 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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Initial Results from Belleville’s On-Demand Transit Pilot(pantonium.com)
1 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Do Nothing (2017)(medium.com)
215 points by panic 7y ago|49 comments
856.
by panic 7y ago
One major problem is day transitions. It would be pretty confusing if it went from Tuesday to Wednesday in the middle of the day.
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by panic 7y ago
There are lots of differences, but a big one is its lack of a strong distinction between compile time and run time. From "Scopes for C/C++ Users" ( https://scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cpp_users.h
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How to slice your code into continuations(dpiponi.github.io)
1 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
859.
by panic 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14830797
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Making Sandspiel(maxbittker.com)
160 points by panic 7y ago|9 comments
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by panic 7y ago
Every single person inside of an institution can care deeply about something, but that doesn't mean the institution as a whole will act as if it cares. Think of Google as a huge animal made up of individual people. The people can per
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by panic 7y ago
I don't think that reddit thread is the original source. Someone in the thread links to a larger-sized image which appears to be from https://funnyjunk.com/Cognitohazard/pxMTMck/ . EDIT: here's an even e
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Freedom(inessential.com)
2 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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by panic 7y ago
Definitely take a look at Forth: each word in the language can have separate compile-time and run-time behavior, and the compiler is simple enough that it's easy to extend it with your own compile-time words. https://www.fo
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Conservation of software-based artworks (2016)(github.com)
1 points by panic 7y ago|0 comments
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by panic 7y ago
"There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch" by Jenny Odell is a deep investigation of this phenomenon and a really good read: http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf .
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by panic 7y ago
I like how this video focuses on the question of how to model the world. People often hold mathematical results up as truth when they're really just the consequences of taking particular definitions. It's possible to reject any
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by panic 8y ago
This sort of defeatism isn't helpful. Surveillance technology doesn't sprout up from nothingness; it's built on a culture and a political/economic environment which can be changed.
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How to help someone use a computer (1999)(old.lwn.net)
4 points by panic 8y ago|0 comments
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by panic 8y ago
Most languages these days are open source; reading source code from a real implementation is a great way to learn.

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