You say potatoe, I say Erdapfel.
Following a month-long journey through the Andes of Peru, this multimedia travelogue explores the cultural sinificance of papas nativas.
Still #TeamKathy.
Why the Trolls Will Always Win.
It begins with simple threats. You know, rape, dismemberment, the usual. It’s a good place to start, those threats, because you might simply vanish once those threats include your family. Mission accomplished. But today, many women online — you women who are far braver than I am — you stick around. And now, since you stuck around through the first wave of threats, you are now a much BIGGER problem. Because the Worst Possible Thing has happened: as a result of those attacks, you are NOW serving Victim-Flavored Koolaid.
Kathy Sierra is a bad-ass games developer and co-creator of the “Head First…” series of books. Right now she is teaching ponies to code.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
Socialgeiz.de (no link, sorry Geizhälse.)
100 Twitter Retweets for you: 1,99 EUR / Stück.
How Silicon Valley is not like Wall Street.
On Wall Street, everyone was not only okay with being the douchebag, they often troublingly wanted to be the douchebag. In Silicon Valley, no one yet seems to want to admit they're the new douchebags. And this more an observation than a value judgment. Power and money beget douchebags. It’s just the nature of the beast.
Florian Schneider – Stop Plastic Pollution.
Programming Languages 2020
Some of the up-and-coming languages I also would like to do something with rather sooner than later (in alphabetical order):
- Elixir
- Elm
- Kotlin
- Rust (especially for WebAssembly)
Relevant: So You Think You Know C? And Ten More Short Essays on Programming Languages.
Like the way we understand animals…?
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
How Futurists Cope With Uncertainty.
If you’ve ever driven on a slippery road and started to lose control of your car, your instinct is to slam down on the breaks. That’s your limbic system dealing with uncertainty and clouding what should at that very moment be rational thought. Your rational mind would tell you to remain calm and avoid overreacting. Allow the car to pass over the ice by keeping the steering wheel straight or even steering gently into it if you’re not going to hit anything. You’re not being passive or giving up! You’re slowing down to see plausible outcomes so that you can take incremental actions.
Good to see alternatives still coming up to challenge the Github hegemony.
sourcehut – the hacker's forge.
Algorithmic Pricing and the Price of Rice.
(…) when sellers configure their algorithms to always set prices just slightly above the price of their competition, the constant price changes can lead to skyrocketing costs for consumers. In one bizzare instance, two competing algorithms drove the price of a science textbook up to $24 million.
