How good code dies, about bad and good algorithms and live stream from space. More inside.
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Fantastic Algorithms and Where To Find Them – Nicholas Ormrod – Meeting C++ 2017
You are doing Stand-ups wrong! – It’s another Monday morning in busy Sydney CBD offices. Once again my group is gathering against a wall and talking to it. This morning we are standing up.
How good code dies – Or, how good documentation and stabilisation can lead to a software project’s downfall.
When is Primitive Obsession not a code smell? – Would you create a DateOfBirth object and a Salary object?
Gaming’s most fiendish anti-piracy tricks – Publishers have struck back will all kinds of increasingly controversial copy protection systems over the years, the PC version of Assassin’s CreedII currently the latest title to raise the ire of gamers with its “No ‘net connection, no game for you” policy.
‘Fiction is outperforming reality’: how YouTube’s algorithm distorts truth – An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?
Algotransparency – On YouTube, there are:
User behaviour – When I go online, I feel like one of B F Skinner’s white Carneaux pigeons. Those pigeons spent the pivotal hours of their lives in boxes, obsessively pecking small pieces of Plexiglas.
Why Ruby on Rails Applications Should Consider Adding Go to Their Stack – Before Go, many companies used RoR as their primary framework for quick prototyping and placing their solution on the market as quickly as possible.
Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
Stanford Seminar – Making an Impact by Focusing on People
What We Talk About When We Talk About Performance – Describing performance improvements exists at the intersection of mathematics and linguistics. It is quite common to use incorrect math to describe performance improvements, and it is possible to use incorrect, misleading, or just sub-optimal rhetoric to describe your math.
Stop Wasting Your Beer Money – Why are engineers so bad at paying other engineers for their work? If we can afford spending $50 on pizza and beer for a late night of coding, then we can afford spending $50 a month for a logging service.
Computer Science VS Software Engineering — Which Major Is Best For You? – “What’s the difference between Computer Science and Software Engineering majors?”
Society
Why Now? – Nearly a quarter century ago, a group of women accused a prominent playwright of sexual misconduct. For the most part, the allegations went nowhere. In 2017, in the midst of the #MeToo movement, more women came forward to accuse the same playwright of misconduct.
Europe’s new data protection rules export privacy standards worldwide – New regulations offer EU citizens sweeping new powers over how their data can be collected, used and stored.
Scandinavian Women Do Not Have It All – Even in Denmark and Sweden’s family-friendly utopia, children are career killers for women.
Faceswapping, Unethical Videos, and Future Shock
What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap? – The gig economy offers the ultimate flexibility to set your own hours. That’s why economists thought it would help eliminate the gender pay gap. A new study, using data from over a million Uber drivers, finds the story isn’t so simple.
History
Jose, The Mother of Cuba
The “invoice” that Grumman sent to North American Rockwell for “towing charges” involved with Apollo 13 – An invoice arrived yesterday at the Houston office of North American Rockwell, the company that makes the Apollo command and service modules. It was from the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, builder of the lunar module, the moon-landing craft that turned unexpectedly into a “lifeboat” on the Apollo 13 flight.
Miscellaneous
Snow White: What Makes a Disney Movie?
Don’t Start with Why! – What really stands behind the most influential marketing model of our times.
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