Wednesday, 26. October 12016
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Being moral means you can never do enough.

Consequentialism is the moral theory that we are obligated to do whatever would have the best consequences. If that entails great sacrifice, then great sacrifice is what consequentialism demands we undertake.

In a highly indebted world, austerity is a permanent state of affairs.

Left or Right, they are all riding debtor anger against creditor strength. It might be expressed as anger against, variously, ‘trade’ or ‘the elite’ or the ‘EU’. But what’s underneath all that is the politics of debt.

The National Archives launches an online resource of GIFs from its collections of historic film, photography, art, and animation.

Tuesday, 25. October 12016
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Yesterday is over. Today is almost gone. Tomorrow is a new beginning.

Mediendienst Integration.

Friday, 21. October 12016
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Interaction Design is dead. What now?

Selected talks by Daniel Grumiller’s START group “Black Holes”.

How Music Affects Your Brain (Plus 11 Artists To Listen To At Work).

The Kink in Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.

Oh, and nobody outside the company believes a passenger hyperloop is coming to California anytime soon. Even those within the company recognize that the first hyperloop will probably be built somewhere like Dubai, with its flat terrain and wealthy autocratic government. If it does get built there, it will still raise the question: Is this the start of a new era, or just the latest ski slope in a shopping mall?

Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?

More and more front-end developers are adopting unidirectional architectures. So what’s the future for the classic Model-View-Controller approach?