February 2012
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
staff:
We are planning to post a new, revised Content Policy in the very near future, and we’d like to ask for input from the Tumblr community on this issue.
Here’s what we think the right answer is:
1. Implement a new policy against pro-self-harm blogs.Here’s draft language we are planning to add to our Content Policy:
Active Promotion of Self-Harm. Don’t post content that actively promotes...
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“we should rig all the couches with pressure sensors that detect how long someone...”
– Ever Falling (via shitnoisebridgesays)
Oh Noisebridge…
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“It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with...”
– A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
Pretty much my sentiments exactly.
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Thirded.
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Github wants to teach kids how to code →
Here at GitHub, we think it’s important to contribute to our future. Since kids will eventually grow up (so we hear) we think it’d be awesome to teach them how to code. We’re working with CoderDojo to bring their awesome kid-code-teaching classes to the US.
Similar to an idea I failed to find funding for in 2011.
“I make sure to start every day as a producer, not a consumer.
When you get up,...”
– aceex comments on What are the small lifestyle changes you’ve made that have had big impacts for you? (via gsiener)
I agree with this for so many reasons. (via anoemi)
This.
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Science to the Max: HELLO WORLD →
sciencetothemax:
Hi, my name is Max. My favorite thing to do is to study the field of electronics. I am a beginner in electronics. My new place to create my inventions is at Heatsync Labs. I am working on many small projects and one big project. The big project is making a hydrogen fuel cell power an…
HeatSync Labs enables kids (and grownups) in Arizona to teach themselves about...
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darkmindbrightfuture:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -...
January 2012
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Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis... →
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Comparing Internet Speeds Across the Nation →
dataanxiety:
Idaho has the slowest Internet speeds for residential customers in the country, while Rhode Island and other East Coast states have among the fastest.
Differences in download time between the cities with the fastest (Providence, RI) and slowest (Pocatello, ID) connections vary by an order of magnitude i.e. a multiple of ten. More like 12 times, in fact.
Oddly, Washington State...
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The Good (City) Life: Why New York's Life... →
First, we don’t spend our entire lives in cars. We walk everywhere. With narrow streets, an abundance of stores, and a dearth of parking, the city is practically designed to make us walk. Before we get on the subway, we walk there, and after we arrive at our stop, we climb numerous flights of stairs. We also walk faster than the average American; in a recent study, New Yorkers were ranked...
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My Brain is No Longer Full of Facebook
canvas:
Title says it all. We’ve removed the requirement to use Facebook on signup, so now you and your friends can signup using just an e-mail address. See http://canv.as/p/kq93m for more!
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28c3 Recordings →
fooyeahcode:
Last week, I was at the 28th Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin. It was great. I meet so much awesome people there and had a lot of Code and Club Mate :)
You will find some mirrors of the recordings at this link, most of them are in english language.
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“And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they...”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via amber-rae : msg)
We make luck. (via ericlodwick : ronenreblogs)
Yes we do.
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December 2011
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November 2011
12 posts
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WatchUm, video of my, um, talk at Twiliocon, um, in San Francisco a few months ago about, um… using Twilio with Arduino.
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I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ask Me Anything →
david:
If you could impress one thing on young people today, what would it be?
That adults are not all they’re cracked up to be. And most of them are wrong most of the time. This can be quite revelatory for a kid - often launching them on a personal quest of exploration, rather than of Q&A sessions with their parents.
If you could change one thing about how the sciences are taught to...
I barely knew you, but we cared about the same things and knowing that I didn’t stand alone encouraged my efforts with Hayst.ac. Rest in peace, Ilya.
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October 2011
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A History of DeLUG, Canto 5: Exile and the New...
The tail end of 2005 brought several changes began the end of most student organizations on campus. The first was the creation of the Game and Simulation Programming major, which attracted droves of gamers who were great at gaming and spent all their free time gaming and not socializing with humans or using OSes that most games didn’t run on. DeVry basically got invaded by Westwood...