(Credit: New Line Home Video) New research from the University of Copenhagen combines formal philosophy, social psychology, and decision theory to understand and tackle these phenomena. “Group behavior that encourages us to make decisions based on false beliefs has always existed. However, with the…

EARLIER this week, I spotted, among the job listings in the newspaper Reforma, an ad from a restaurant in Mexico City looking to hire dishwashers. The requirement: a secondary school diploma.

I imagine that this post is going to draw the ire of some. It seems like every time I mention this on Twitter or anywhere else there is always some pushback from people who think that putting comments in your code is a waste of time. I think your code needs comments, but so we have a mutual…

git pull --rebase instead of git pull git rebase -i @{u} before git push (on “feature”) git merge master to make feature compatible with latest master (on “master”) git merge -no-ff feature to ship a feature However if “feature” contains only 1 commit, avoid the merge commit:(on “master”) git…

By Shanley Kane 2/21 1:30pm (Photo: Twitter/Shanley) This is a guest post by Shanley Kane. It was originally published on her blog Pretty Little State Machine and is republished here with her permission. Ms. Kane works in product management and enterprise software in San Francisco and is interested…

Written by: Chris Butler Think 2013 will spell the end of good old analog and human interaction? Eh, not so fast. Near the end of 2012, a group of us at Ziba got together to review what we’d learned over the course of the year. Working with dozens of clients who serve customers around the world, we…

The big picture for YouTube looks good. The world’s biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars. Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube’s biggest programming partners. Their views are also increasing. But the ad revenue YouTube generates for their stuff…

I'm a Python programmer and frequently work with the excellent virtualenv tool by Ian Bicking. Virtualenv is a great tool on the whole but there is one glaring problem: the activate script that virtualenv provides as a convenience to enable its functionality requires you to source it with your shell…

Unsolicited calls from a tech recruiter are one of the banes of existence of a technologist with a LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile that has been anything close to meaningfully filled out. Or a startup founder. Both sides get hammered with calls. And emails. All. The. Time. If you haven’t been on the…

Man,time travel sucks. I mean think about it, you know all this stuff- and I mean you really know this stuff, but of course you can’t say, “You’re wrong. And I know, because I’m from the future.” So you pretend like its just your opinion and then sit there grinding your teeth while everyone else…

In the moments before Heroku’s developer conference, Waza, kicks off, its general manager, Oren Teich, took a few moments to talk to VentureBeat about his company’s values, its successes, and its struggles. Although it’s possibly the least pleasant topic on his mind at the moment, he willingly…

A few years ago I worked in a medium sized business with an excellent computer programmer named Arpan. Several times during management meetings I saw him present his work, making a clear case for why the computer architecture should be revamped using industry best practices. Our department head, who…

A funny thing happened during the Oscars, but it wasn’t anything that came out of Seth MacFarlane’s mouth. Rather, it was a moment during Life of Pi VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer’s acceptance speech for Best Visual Effects that quickly became emblematic of the problems currently plaguing the…

When I traded correspondence with writer David Brothers last week, I made the argument that video games needs its equivalent to Blazing Saddles. This time, I'm saying that it could use its own version of Milestone Media, the groundbreaking comics company started by a crew of black professionals. In…

Corrections Appended: February 26, 2013 1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been…

The Web App Challenge | February 19th, 2013 Let me start by warning you: This is a long post. I want to take you through the process of writing and designing the ConvertKit sales page. As you’ll see, I had a huge amount of help from Amy Hoy. Throughout the process she gave great advice on…

The NSFWCORP Dispatch, THIS IS HOW YOU HEALTHCARE: AMERICAN DEATH IN LONDON >> // was shared by Carrie Rose on February 18th, 2013, but unfortunately the link has since expired. However, you can see this Dispatch and lots more by subscribing to NSFWCORP today!

What I’m about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that’s fine. Because in a few years, I’ll be right and you’ll look silly. While everyone is focused on the next generation video game consoles from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft — the latter two of which should be coming later…

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster on his Startup Advice blog: Both Sides of the Table By now many of you know the Harlem Shake. It is a YouTube phenomenon that in just two weeks has gone from nothing to on…

Image: Cali4beach Anyone who’s spent any time on the internet is familiar with trolls. From politics to sports to science, trolls take pleasure in bashing a story from every possible angle. Science is no exception, and recent research shows that when it comes to science news, the trolls are…

I’ve been the jerk who denies a candidate their hopes for an internship hundreds of times. That’s not a point of pride – just a consequence of helping build eight (nine?) classes of interns at two small companies that both happen to receive up to 500 intern applications every month. I’ve obsessed…

This is a rebuttal to the oft-repeated notion that it's not what you know, it's who you know. I'm going to make the somewhat scandalous point that no, it is in fact what you know. Connections are great. But they're worthless without certain prerequisites in the skill department. I'm going to journey…

In this essay, Robopocalypse author Daniel Wilson talks about what it's really like to work as a writer in Hollywood, with the big highs and even bigger lows. I remember it clearly. I'm twenty-six years old, pacing around on the phone outside an Ethiopian restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm…

Home > News > By Elizabeth Flock For the last six generations, beer has defined Jim Koch's family. And for much of that time, his family's story has criss-crossed that of another brewing company, Anheuser-Busch. Koch's great-great grandfather founded their family's brewery the same year Anheuser…

Posted by Matthew Manarino on Monday, February 11, 2013 · At some point in a recent upload by OutbackZack — a character played by YouTube creator Zack James – the YouTuber, now out of character, furiously declares, “It does not make any sense, for us, the content creators, the people who built this…

In which a new technology trial is proposed: The Shotwell's Test. This is how regular patrons act at Shotwell's (flickr/melinnis). Two people wearing Google Glasses walk into a bar. ... Nope, that's the whole joke. Don't get me wrong: I'm as excited about Glasses as the next nerd, but I'm not so…

Yup, women play games too. By Gabrielle Toledano When it comes to sexism in video game studios, there’s a big disconnect between perception and reality. We’ve all heard the debate – many have accepted as an article of faith that sexism keeps women out of game studios. As an insider, I find this…

Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” over the past month and a half — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories: #1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. #2: You gotta keep in mind what’s…

Flot2011 Asks: I find myself pondering over this question again and again. I want to do things the right way: to write clean, understandable, and correct code that is easy to maintain. However, what I end up doing is writing patch upon a patch just because there is no time, clients are waiting, a…

Linux Command Line tips that every Linux user should know Chankey Pathak January 12, 2012 Below is the collection of Linux command line tips which I’ve found useful for Linux users. To get more information about the command mentioned below just open your terminal and type man . Things a…

As we mentioned earlier, Evernote CEO Phil Libin gave a fantastic presentation earlier today at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. After doing other companies, Libin now leads a company offering an eponymous ‘memory-enhancement’ service that has attracted nearly 30 million users to date, which…

Cory Doctorow wrote this Creative Commons-licensed fiction story for Radar Online magazine. “We don’t know enough about you.” –Google CEO Eric Schmidt Greg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he’d made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight.…

This is your prep list for the How To Survive The Apocalypse..for just 72 hours. Our goal is just to get you to First Base---a grab and go kit that will take care of you for the first three days. Why do all earthquake prep kits say to plan for that amount of time? Think about it like this: even…

This is a story about Doom 3's source code and how beautiful it is. Yes, beautiful. Allow me to explain. After releasing my video game Dyad I took a little break. I read some books and watched some movies I'd put off for too long. I was working on the European version of Dyad, but that time was…

Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) largely removes the burden of manual memory management, not to mention the chore of tracking down bugs caused by leaking or over-released objects! Despite its awesomeness, ARC does not let you ignore memory management altogether. This post covers the following key…

For Zack Kopplin, it all started back in 2008 with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The bill made it considerably easier for teachers to introduce creationist textbooks into the classroom. Outraged, he wrote a research paper about it for a high school English class. Nearly five…

Your browser may not support all of the functionality in this article. Your browser appears to support the functionality in this article. We're going to walk through how to create an adaptive web experience that's designed mobile-first. This article and demo will go over the following: As the web…

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