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Notes John's Tumblr: A few folks have asked me what I think of the news yesterday that...What we do know is that in technology, we’ve never been served well by monocultures — we know this for sure. I worry that in our desire for clearer definition, easier standards, faster progress, we’re forgetting that we know this. Same as it ever was, I suppose.
Interesting insight on Opera’s decision to move to webkit as their rendering engine
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"If you’re only filling your head with a single source of inspiration, sitting in a single environment, thinking about a single topic, you’ll only ever have a single output. We are the sum of our experiences, so when asked to generate new thought, we’ll be calling upon the existing thought in our heads, breaking it down and recombining it."
Matthew Knight on “Making time to think”
(Source: webponce.com)
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Frozen bubbles in a Canadian lake
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Notes"I’ll pay you $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you’ve been kicking around in your head for the last year."Interesting proposition on Hacker News for a way to get startups started. Mutually beneficial as both parties end up with 50% of something (rather than the developer having 100% of nothing) and the risk is shared (as the investor is paying for the time spent developing the MVP)
(Source: news.ycombinator.com)
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Fresh stack of @RideSnowboard boots just been delivered.. get brand new boots when you rent from us here at Tignes Spirit!!
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"In today’s world, a corporate Goliath like Expedia has way too much power to be worried about stones thrown by small business owners like us."
A horrifying account of the behaviour of Expedia to one of its “partner” hotels
(Source: playazone.wordpress.com)
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"Here’s the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can’t exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they’re not looking, you can carry off the honey."
Insight on how coders work and how software companies die
(Source: zoion.com)
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NotesMy poem on diversity in the workplace and youth unemployment at the Race for Opportunity dinner
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"Apple seems less interested in blowing people away than it is in milking profit out of the existing lineup."
Dan Lyons damning indictment of the current state of Apple
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Newton’s cradle by Yasutoki Kariya. Check out more experiments at Experiments in Motion.
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Awesome long exposure photos of fireworks where the camera is focused halfway through the shot
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Notes"What was Iceland’s approach? To do the exact opposite of everything the bankers running our own economies told us to do. The bankers (naturally) told us that we needed to bail out the criminal Big Banks, at taxpayer expense (they were Too Big To Fail). Iceland gave the banksters nothing."Apparently Iceland is doing a better job of fixing it’s economy than the rest of us - and austerity isn’t the answer
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Notes"The criminals are not primarily wrongdoers to be punished, but broken people to be fixed."A look at the Norwegian system of “restorative justice” - a different approach to treating criminals
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"At this point you’re probably wonder why you’d need your own integer, much less an artisan one."
The Reverend Dan Catt explaining how what at first appears to be a pointless joke is actually a semi-serious attempt to allocate numbers which can be used as unique across services
(Source: revdancatt.com)
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Jean-Paul Bourdier uses colorfully painted human bodies as props in these stunning landscape photos!
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Well right, naturally you should hate spirituality. That word almost always refers to someone using the spiritual as spackle to fill a defect in... -
Being in the world’s deepest swimming pool is kinda like straight up swimming in the ocean!
Check out these photos from Nemo 33 in Brussels!
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
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How I built Hopper in a week, without internet
I built the minimum viable product for Hopper. In a week. With no internet.
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Slow lorises love tiny umbrellas!
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“Boris ‘has cut police numbers by 2,100 in a city about to host the Olympics; had 110 meetings with bankers, and only 74 with the police; claimed...”
