Saturday, 14. January 12017
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Maybe the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas was a bad place to take LSD for the first time.

“I Dropped Acid and Saw Into the Future: My Surreal First Time At CES.”

What finally brought me to the edge of emotional break was the carpeting.

Wednesday, 11. January 12017
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Blinded by the light.

I just learned that Docker originally was just an application of LXC, Ubuntu’s container management software.

LXC containers “will typically be long running and based on a clean distribution image”, while “Docker focuses on ephemeral, stateless, minimal containers that won’t typically get upgraded or re-configured but instead just be replaced entirely”.

This 12-part series about LXD 2.0 (a daemon to drive LXC containers) by its project leader, Stéphane Graber, provides a very good introduction into other corners of virtualization with containers.

The list of 2016 visualization lists.

Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block.

Visualizing Distributions.

Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.

Guillermo Rauch’s 2016 in Review.

Saturday, 7. January 12017
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Txti is a free service that lets you create the fastest, simplest, most shareable web pages on the internet using any phone, tablet, or computer you have. (Via motherfuckingwebsite.com.)

A Tale of Four Megacities and Four Solutions.

Across Asia, big cities are finding surprising ways to grapple with climate change, bad traffic and the rest of it.

A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30.

Best book title/cover combo for a long time.

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal.