added 8 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
In particular, note that the algorithms defined in this specification are intended to be easy to understand and are not intended to be performant.
written by Benedict Evans. added 8 months ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
Over time, video turned out to be one part of that, but not as a telco service billed by the second. Equally, the killer app for 5G is probably, well, ‘faster 4G’. Over time, that will mean new Snapchats and New YouTubes - new ways to fill the pipe that wouldn’t work today, and new entrepreneurs. It probably isn’t a revolution - or rather, it means that the revolution that’s been going on since 1995 or so keeps going for another decade or more, until we get to 6G.
written by Hansika Kapoor. added 8 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
Is there really a distinction between a negatively and a positively creative person – or are they just the same people compelled by different circumstances in life?
written by JBD. added 8 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
Use always lower case messages. errors.New("cannot open; magic mime db is already open") is enough. Error messages are what end users see, so we shouldn't include any development-related suggestions.
written by Motoko Rich. added 9 months ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
japan family work-life-balance job overtime
Last year, when Daiwa House, a homebuilder, conducted a survey of 300 working couples, most of the respondents said that women completed close to 90 percent of the chores at home, many of them unacknowledged by their husbands. The results went viral on social media under the hashtag “namonaki kaji,” which roughly translates as “invisible house chores.”
written by Drew Millard. added 9 months ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
duckduckgo privacy programming
This, in a nutshell, is DuckDuckGo’s proposition: “The big tech companies are taking advantage of you by selling your data. We won’t.” In effect, it’s an anti-sales sales pitch. DuckDuckGo is perhaps the most prominent in a number of small but rapidly growing firms attempting to make it big — or at least sustainable — by putting their customers’ privacy and security first. And unlike the previous generation of privacy products, such as Tor or SecureDrop, these services are easy to use and intuitive, and their user bases aren’t exclusively composed of political activists, security researchers, and paranoiacs.
written by Vern Keenan. added 9 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
Here is the curious fact that made me pay attention to Go — Amazon adopted Go as a language for their AWS Lambda serverless platform before Google could release a similar capability in GCP. That must have stung the GCP team!
written by Jessie Frazelle. added 9 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
I love software design that enables creativity, values simplicity, and doesn’t put users in a box.
written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. added 10 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
When a new technology emerges, we either grossly underestimate or severely overestimate its importance.
written by Ken Fromm, Paddy Foran. added 10 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
“Is it absolutely necessary that the user wait for this action to be completed before we can give them a response?”
written by Derek Sivers. added 10 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
Subtracting reminds me that what I need to change is something already here, not out there.
written by J. A. Westenberg. added 10 months ago by @kshitij10496 ARCHIVES
So how do you get to one person? How do you make one person care? It’s easy. You identify a persona, you find someone who matches that persona, and you hit them up. I like to look for creatives who are doing something similar to me. Bloggers, writers, artists — whoever it is. Then I go on Twitter. I find their audience, and I find some of the people who follow their work, and I get to know them. I reach out and explain that I found them because we’re both fans of the same creative. And I want to share my work with them. I have an 80% response rate from people I reach out to in this way. Almost everyone will take the time to check out your work, as long as you aren't spamming them or being disrespectful. This isn't a situation where you can blast out an email or a tweet to a hundred people, it has to be extremely personal and tailored.
written by Rob Pike. added 11 months ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
We—Ken, Robert and myself—were C++ programmers when we designed a new language to solve the problems that we thought needed to be solved for the kind of software we wrote. It seems almost paradoxical that other C++ programmers don't seem to care. ... I believe that's a preposterous way to think about programming. What matters isn't the ancestor relations between things but what they can do for you.
written by Bill Gates. added 12 months ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
Well, Africa, of course, is not nearly as poor as it was in the past. The number of kids in education, the childhood survival rate, there has been quite a bit of improvement there. But in Africa, the geography is tough. The disease burden is tough. The ecosystems are very, very different. Asia, Europe, and the United States, those Northern Hemisphere areas, they developed in terms of getting rid of disease, being able to have infrastructure for very efficient transport, and having more than enough food to feed the population. They got into a virtuous cycle of high education, high discovery, high innovation, and generally quite strong governance.
written by Audrey Jiajia Li. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
china internet great-firewall censorship
I have tried to persuade people I know to switch to other messaging services that have end-to-end encryption — to no avail. Since most of their contacts are on WeChat and they are so reliant on its services, they see no reason to leave. Whenever I bring up privacy concerns, the usual response is, “If you have nothing to hide, why do you mind the government accessing your data?” Sadly, this echoes a statement by Robin Li, the chief executive of the Chinese search engine giant Baidu: If, he said, the Chinese people “are able to trade privacy for convenience, for safety, for efficiency, in a lot of cases they are willing to do that.”
written by David Smilde. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
venezuela democracy overthrow-dictators
The government’s crass manipulation and outright fraud in elections over the past two years have weakened the hand of opposition moderates and strengthened the long-term message of radicals: “you don’t remove dictators with votes.” But this idea is historically inaccurate. Pressure leading to a pact leading to a vote is the classic way to overcome authoritarian rule. It was through a plebiscite that the Chilean opposition defeated the dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1988. A year later, the Solidarity movement in Poland accepted a limited vote and stunned the government by sweeping the election, leading to its demise. And it was through negotiations, and a vote, that South Africa overcame apartheid.
written by Somini Sengupta, Tiffany May and Zia ur-Rehman. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
Is it because of climate change? Scientists with the World Weather Attribution project concluded in a study released Friday that the likelihood of the heat wave currently baking Northern Europe is “more than two times higher today than if human activities had not altered climate.”
written by Rod Nordland. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
casablanca cafe ww2 recreation
Like many visitors here, Mr. Kelley was surprised to learn that Rick’s Café Américain never existed, except on a Hollywood movie lot, where the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was made. It was 1942, the world was at war, and the eponymous city was occupied by the Axis powers. Rick’s was just the figment of a writer’s imagination.
written by Anemona Hartocollis, Amy Harmon and Mitch Smith. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
harvard admission education us
But behind the curtain, Harvard’s much-feared admissions officers have a whole other set of boxes that few ambitious high school students and their parents know about — or could check even if they did. The officers speak a secret language — of “dockets,” “the lop list,” “tips,” “DE,” the “Z-list” and the “dean’s interest list” — and maintain a culling system in which factors like where applicants are from, whether their parents went to Harvard, how much money they have and how they fit the school’s goals for diversity may be just as important as scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT.
written by Jennifer Haberkorn. added about 1 year ago by @icyflame ARCHIVES
pro-life democrats us-politics childbirth
In some ways, the Democrats for Life convention was similar to any other anti-abortion gathering: There were candles to honor aborted children; panelists generally (but not universally) knocked Planned Parenthood and physician-assisted suicide; and the whole conference had Christian, particularly Catholic, undertones. The main difference: Any mention of Donald Trump got, at minimum, an eye roll. Along with other non-Republican anti-abortion movements—such as Secular Pro-Life and Pro-Life Humanists—Democrats for Life likes to use the term “whole life” to describe their cause, a label that encompasses support for life from conception to natural death and everything in between, including child care, parental leave, health care and education. They argue that unlike Republican anti-abortion groups, they want to support children and their mothers once babies are outside the womb, too—even if that means they lead a lonely political existence.
Cutouts is an open source application. Code licensed under the MIT license. Copyright 2018 Siddharth Kannan