Translations A Japanese translation of this article is available here . A Chinese translation of this article is available here . A few days ago Uber published the article “ Why Uber Engineering Switc
I remember the first time a man let me know that he could kill me if he chose to. I was 19 years old. My fiancé and I had just finished an argument. I had flinched at his rage. He noticed my fear, and he told me a story. “My ex told her family that she thought I was going to kill her,“ he said, “I…
“I don’t hate the Clintons,” says R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., the founder and longtime editor of The American Spectator and the father of … let’s call it “Clinton disdain.” “I have always seen them as comi
Published in The Policy · 18 min read · Jun 13, 2016 -- Photo Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Graph Credit: Nate Silver/NY Times “In the course of a single conversation, I have been assured that Hillar
Wow, this is hard for me to write. Like millions of supporters of Bernie Sanders, I have not quite gotten over his loss to Hillary Clinton. I didn't expect it to sting this bad, but for me, Bernie wasn't just another politician or candidate, but a rare leader who means what he says, keeps his word…
This piece originally ran on Vox.com . “You’re on the no-fly list,” the woman at the kiosk told me. It was a Wednesday, six years ago, at Midway Airport in Chicago. I was traveling to Spokane, Washing
Published in Inclusive Software · 10 min read · Apr 19, 2016 -- Blue and white antique plate offering dubious advice: “More haste less speed.” More haste! Less speed! This contradictory plate hung in
Switch to electric cars. This one’s a no-brainer. Broaden access beyond those with smartphones. Simple payment cards could improve access and increase the usable payment methods available to consumers
What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention. Published in Welcome to the Scream
Last month, the Obama administration accused Donald Trump of undercutting American legitimacy in the eyes of the world. Trump’s call to ban Muslims wasn’t just morally wrong, according to Vice Preside
It’s often expedient to discuss the “happy path”, which is the ideal or most simple flow of logic through a system. While it’s a great tool for conversation and identifying requirements, I’ve found it
It was in January 1976 that workers at Lucas Aerospace published an Alternative Plan for the future of their corporation. It was a novel response to management announcements that thousands of manufact
Update 2020-01-22 I wrote a new version of this . Alberto Brandolini said at IDDD Belgium (quoting from memory): We've always explained 'technical debt' badly to the business. If you have debt with a
Neural networks are magical When I go to Google Photos and search my photos for ‘skyline’, it finds me this picture of the New York skyline I took in August, without me having labelled it! When I sear
Theory of Constraints (TOC) THE BIG IDEA Every process has a constraint (bottleneck) and focusing improvement efforts on that constraint is the fastest and most effective path to improved profitabilit
Credit: Wikimedia My adored Camille is writing a book on management, which will no doubt be amazing, and asked me to contribute a section on being an organised manager. She says, “Managing people is h
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On a humid afternoon this past November, I pulled off Interstate 75 into a stretch of Florida pine forest tangled with runaway vines. My GPS was homing in on the house of a man I thought might hold th
Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel
Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post via Getty On Monday, the Republican-led Senate didn't just hand a defeat to gun control supporters. It handed a defeat to its own party's presumptive presidential
Inmates take a class at a prison in San Diego. A new program could provide education funding to as many as twelve thousand people behind bars. Photograph by Sam Hodgson / Bloomberg / Getty Jackson, dr
A curiously old-fashioned aura surrounds the latest account of serious wrongdoing in the New York City Police Department: As Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who brought charges against t
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. The group that represents the country’s
In the tech industry, alcohol is currency. It’s used to grow event attendance, to bribe participants, to reward employees and community members. Informal interviews are conducted in bars, to see if po
October 31, 2015 Volume 13, issue 8 PDF Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron The "Leftover Principle" Requires Increasingly More Highly-skilled Humans. Thomas A. Limoncelli Q: Dear Tom: A fe
Warren and Clinton Campaign Together in Swing State of Ohio June 27, 2016 02:32 Locked hand-in-hand in front of a rapturous Ohio crowd, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren sealed a powerful alliance
A war of words has erupted over whether the DNC hack was an act of espionage by the Russian government, between soundbite-ready security firm CrowdStrike and a lone hacker who's unkindly claiming cred
Programmers love to approach new business problems thinking about frameworks, libraries, tools or methods which can be used. However, my experience shows that quite the opposite way is most successful
Written By Mark Manson Filed Under Happiness Productivity The Outrage Begins Moment Zero: A Significant Event occurs. Eye witnesses and primary sources break the news. Statements are made. Videos are
WWDC keynoting and Tim Cook didn't mention a new file system once?"/> Two hours or so of WWDC keynoting and Tim Cook didn't mention a new file system once? Andrew Cunningham This article was originall
For those who don’t know, Sequel is an ORM very similar to ActiveRecord, in away that it also implements the Active Record pattern . As of this writingit’s 9 years old. I’ve already written about some of the main advantages of Sequel over ActiveRecord (and other peoplehave as well: 1 , 2 ). I’m…
Getty Images I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened the shirt I’m wearing with cufflinks which have the UK flag on one side, and the German flag on the other—my proud European heritage. I’m thinking…
Love doesn’t just come in pairs. Is it time that marriage laws come to recognise the fact? As a child Franklin Veaux recalls hearing his school teacher read a story about a princess who had a tantalis
Opinion Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family Credit... Jon Han “DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied.
The fast rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren within the Democratic Party has coincided with another phenomenon: the continual use by elite-media journalists of anonymous sources in articles that either crit
13 min read · Jun 16, 2016 -- Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest newspaper. They are working on st
Recently, a millennial came to my office and asked me if she should get vaccinated, even though her mom had never wanted her to. I didn’t tell her what to do. Instead, I told her why I vaccinate my own son. Here’s what I said. How I Learned to Trust The Needle When my son was a couple of months old,…
Recently there’s been a spate of internet discussion offering justifications for or against women becoming mothers as overworked graduate students versus as overworked post-docs versus as overworked p
Elizabeth* is 35. She grew up in the South, currently lives in Brooklyn, and has been married for two years. After a previous miscarriage at 10 weeks, she was overjoyed to find herself pregnant for a
Most big social networks are fun to use but tough to turn into businesses. Facebook struggled mightily before finding its fortune in mobile advertising; Snapchat’s television-like ad business is an op
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