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The Bob Dylan concert for just one person
An interview with Fredrik Wikingsson, the subject of 'Experiment Ensam'
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Redefining Work
The most modern definition of work is “an exchange in which the participants benefit from the interaction”. Interestingly, cooperation is…
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Ed Balls Day
Ed Balls Day is a bit of fun and the stuff of nonsense. It celebrates and remembers the day (28 April 2011) when British politician Ed Balls tweeted his name thinking he was entering it into a sear…
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The Chamber of Guf
[I briefly had a different piece up tonight discussing a conference, but the organizers asked me to hold off on writing about it until they’ve put up their own synopsis. It will be back up ev…
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My Letter to the Tor Project
N ow I a fourfold vision see A nd a fourfold vision is given to me T is fourfold in my supreme delight A nd three fold in soft Beulahs night A nd twofold Always. May God us keep F rom Single vision & Newtons sleep. — W illiam B lake
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On journeys (2015)
- 1 - Poland is an ancient country whose history is deeply intertwined with that of the western civilization. In its glory days, the Po...
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Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say
I do not enjoy writing about technology. Aside from the shiny, birdlike emotion I get from opening a new Apple product every three years, I do not enjoy using much of modern technology. I view my phone with mistrust and resentment, even as I allow it to eat my time with distractions to recover from a day of ostensibly…
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Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?
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The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community
Disclaimer: This post is critical of open source software in the context of unpaid labor and the hiring requirements we've set up around it. It is not a criticism of open source software itself or the people who participate in it, both of which I and anyone who uses software benefits from. This is work that I - and…
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Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
I’m not arguing that it benefits anyone other than Apple itself. I’m just arguing that it makes sense from Apple’s perspective — and it was Apple’s decision to make.
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015)
How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.
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The impact of language choice on github projects
Although I spend a lot of my play-time fooling about with other languages, my professional and released code consists of Python, C, C++ and, alas, Javascript. I've lived in this tiny corner of the magic garden of modern software development for 10 years, and I'm itching to strike out in a different direction for my…
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to…
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Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street?
By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a co…
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Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of the British government.
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Microsoft killed my Pappy
I was talking to a young ( The ones I find the most interesting are the ...
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George W. Bush is smarter than you
The new George W. Bush Presidential Center is being dedicated this week. This seems like a good time to bust a longstanding myth about our former President, my former boss. I teach a class at Stanford Business School titled “Financial Crises in the U.S. and Europe.” During one class session while explaining the events…
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Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads"
18禁动画+在线看,黑人巨大三根一起进,久久99热狠狠色av蜜臀,与丰满老妇人做爰a片，日本中文字幕一区
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Let's just say it: 3D TV is a joke.
(At Panasonic's IFA booth: People using 3D glasses and monitors to watch the live women in front of their faces.) If you determine the big story here at the IFA tech show here in Berlin based on raw square footage in the booths, there's no question what it is: 3D TV is everywhere. The massive boot
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market
Earlier this week, CNET ran an article critical of the permission model of the Android Market. Google’s response to the criticism was that “each Android app must get users’ permission to access sensitive information”. While this is technically true, one should not need a PhD in Computer Science to use a smartphone…
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