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I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 338 posts.
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Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
This is a bit long. Apologies. I'd meant to talk about other things, but I started writing a reply this morning to the letter that follows...
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Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser
Longtime Readers of this blog will be aware that I have been a fan of Mozilla for a long time. There’s nearly ten years of Mozilla advocacy tucked away in the JWM archives. I’ve been on the Mozilla fanboy train since before Firefox even existed — all the way back to the original Mozilla Suite’s Milestone 17 release…
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GoDaddy's New "Selective DNS Blackouts" Policy
Now that GoDaddy is a near monopoly (larger than the next 8 closest registrar competitors combined 1 ), and just got bought out on July 1, 2011 2 , they have decided they can defy the sacred. Customers be damned.
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We need a GitHub of Science
Publishing is central to Academia, but its publishing system is outclassed by what Open Source software developers have in GitHub
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My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late
In 1987, Apple released this concept video for Knowledge Navigator, a voice-based assistant combined with a touchscreen tablet computer. Based on the dates mentioned in the Knowledge Navigator video, it takes place on September 16, 2011. The date on the professor’s calendar is September 16, and he’s looking for a 2006…
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Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this?
Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta has some insight into why Eric Schmidt is stepping down as Google’s CEO. Schmidt, according to associates, lost some energy
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What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
By now you’ve no doubt smelled the shitstorm surrounding Google’s allegation that Bing are ‘cheating’ and copying Google’s search results. If not, in brief, Google spotted that Bing sometimes includes results that seemed to be copied from Google, so Google set up a honeypot – they made some made up words like…
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John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby
THE ROBOT AND THE BABY
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Inequality in Equalland
Every resident of Equalland has the same life story. From birth until age 18, they live with their parents, earning nothing and spending nothing — their parents cover all their needs. At age 18, they graduate from high school, become independent of their parents, and go to college. The government of Equalland funds…
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Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
Welcome Hacker News, Slashdot, DF and TechMeme. Be sure to read the follow up ...
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Own Your Identity
This paragraph in Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Why I’ll Never Redirect my Personal Blog to Google Plus scared me a bit:
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Have you ever printed a boarding pass?
Bill III's Blog -
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It’s the end of the web as we know it
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"It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions
physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
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Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
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The Tyranny of the Extroverts
Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page. Fortune 500 companies are run by 499 extroverts, plus Bill Gates. There are 435 extroverts in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, two from each state. In fact, the only introvert in the District of Columbia…