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"Which is why I was surprised years ago at the mother’s response when I asked if she would now give..."

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:49:51 -0400

“

Which is why I was surprised years ago at the mother’s response when I asked if she would now give her children the benefit of modern medicine’s vaccinations.

She said no.

Why was it so easy for her, even when confronted with such an outcome, to cast aside nine decades of vaccine success stories?

”

- Give It Your Best Shot — Infectious Ideas

(via Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA | Video on...

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:55:59 -0400

(via Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA | Video on TED.com)

Meet Gabe Newell, Microsoft’s next CEO

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:04:41 -0400

Meet Gabe Newell, Microsoft’s next CEO

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:04:42 -0400

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004

Monads made simple. Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:04:39 -0500

Monads made simple.

Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote) (by yuilibrary)

As always, Blizzard’s Cinemas are amazing. StarCraft II:...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:48:23 -0500

As always, Blizzard’s Cinemas are amazing.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Opening Cinematic (by starcraft)

Yeah, unicode jokes. (via xkcd: RTL)

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:04:44 -0500

Yeah, unicode jokes.

(via xkcd: RTL)

Threw away MASTER BALL. … Became POKéMON LEAGUE...

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:07:44 -0500

Threw away MASTER BALL.

…

Became POKéMON LEAGUE champion.

…

THE END

(Thanks Rob!)

Arlene Blum’s Crusade Against Toxic Couches - NYTimes.com

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:14:15 -0500

Arlene Blum’s Crusade Against Toxic Couches - NYTimes.com:

Danger lurking in your couch!

"Employers don’t see your academic schedule and aren’t particularly interested in your..."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:09:30 -0500

“Employers don’t see your academic schedule and aren’t particularly interested in your extracurricular activities. With this in mind, the bulk of the pain suffered by students with absurd course loads, three majors, and ten club memberships, is unnecessary.”

- Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Diligence vs. Ability: Rethinking What Impresses Employers

(via Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:42:01 -0500

(via Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! | Video on TED.com)

John Cleese on Creativity (by wuvwebs) [From work]

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:04:44 -0400

John Cleese on Creativity (by wuvwebs)

[From work]

"story gets to the heart of Vaillant’s angle on the Grant Study. His central question is not how much..."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:35:18 -0400

“story gets to the heart of Vaillant’s angle on the Grant Study. His central question is not how much or how little trouble these men met, but rather precisely how—and to what effect—they responded to that trouble. His”

- What Makes Us Happy? - Magazine - The Atlantic

What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. (by...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:01:49 -0400

What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)

Valve is now in the documentary business? Sounds like Valve is...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:54:48 -0400

Valve is now in the documentary business? Sounds like Valve is expanding to be an entertainment company.

"Then there were the competitors like John Carruthers, who dove in with glee. Carruthers, posing as a..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:03:47 -0400

“

Then there were the competitors like John Carruthers, who dove in with glee. Carruthers, posing as a systems administrator for a Target data center in Minnesota, got a Target store manager on the line with his first phone call and proceeded to rattle off details about the company’s supplier software.

Trying to figure out why a software patch hadn’t been deployed, Carruthers deftly blended small talk — “I’ve got my son’s birthday that I’m trying to make it to” — with a ruthlessly efficient, technical interrogation.

In less than 10 minutes, he extracted all of the high-value flags he wanted. Then, with time left on the clock, he called a second store and repeated the entire stunt.

He had Target’s lingo nailed and had a surprising level of technical knowledge about the company. Carruthers reassured one mildly suspicious manager by citing her store number.

”

- How a Lying ‘Social Engineer’ Hacked Wal-Mart - Yahoo! Finance

Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg (by Confreaks)

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:58:57 -0400

Real Software Engineering by Glenn Vanderburg (by Confreaks)

Sound bites considered harmful

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:58:52 -0400

Knuth said:

premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Only, what he actually said was:

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail. After working with such tools for seven years, I’ve become convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specifically turned off.

In that context, the quote takes on a very different meaning.

(via Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding...

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:32:09 -0400

(via Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer | Video on TED.com)

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:31:40 -0400

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic