Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture.
For those who are doing the calling out or the canceling, the odds are still stacked against them. They’re still the ones without the social, political, or professional power to compel someone into meaningful atonement, to do much more than organize a collective boycott.
The Last Line Effect.
heard somewhere, that mountain-climbers often fall off in the last few dozen meters of their ascent. Not because they are tired; they are simply too joyful about almost reaching the top - they anticipate the sweet taste of victory, get less attentive, and make some fatal mistake. I guess something similar happens to programmers.
WienerScript adds syntactic sugar to JavaScript that makes it less forgiving, more emotional, and even painful to write, allowing you to do less with more code.
SCHAU MA MOL {
I MAN JA NUR (calc('+', 1, 2))
} LECK OASCH (err) {
GSCHISSN GRISSN ('invalid operation')
}
The market is just humans. It's humans all the way down.
Markets, discrimination, and “lowering the bar”.
Townsend-Greenspan was unusual for an economics firm in that the men worked for the women (we had about twenty-five employees in all). My hiring of women economists was not motivated by women's liberation. It just made great business sense. I valued men and women equally, and found that because other employers did not, good women economists were less expensive than men. Hiring women . . . gave Townsend-Greenspan higher-quality work for the same money . . .
Goldman Sucks.
Oh look, big business releases a font you can't criticise it with.
(…) the license for the font forbids you to 'disparage or suggest any affiliation with or endorsement by Goldman Sachs.'
Stunning visual interactive explanations of assumed simple as well as obviously complex matters.
Or: Where Amp I?
Based on the contents of the page, I think I’m on The New York Times’ site. However, based on the domain visible in the address bar, I think I’m on google.com.
The Definitive Guide to the World’s Hidden Blunders.
See what no human eyes have seen before, deep in the sea off Western Australia.
Accompanied by words of insight and wonder from the expedition’s scientists, this video offers both a rare look at bioluminescent deep-sea life and a glimpse into how the human impulse for exploration helps to drive scientific discovery.
What if we took the lessons of the semantic web and applied them to source code?