Who decides what men are? Is it decided by decree? By popular vote? Or is it decided by you, individual men? A little while back I was talking with a man I knew about consent. He was commenting on an article I had shared earlier that day on men who get women drunk in the hopes that it will increase…

New blog post: "Network latencies and speed of light" https://t.co/ETlI4keBp1 they aren't as good as it gets, but they're closer than you probably think

My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-polit

When we can listen to literally anything, what do we choose, why, and who — or what — decides? Published in 500ish · 4 min read · Dec 24, 2017 -- Good post by Om Malik yesterday on the notion that mus

Playing to Win Those of us with the means to do as we pleased drove our vast resources into monumental construction. My grandest project was a Chinese city, tragically cut short by server reset. View

JACOB HARRIS What if Mos Eisley wasn't really that wretched and it was just Obi Wan being racist again? TIM CARMODY What do you mean, "these blaster marks are too precise to be made by Sand People?" W

I have so many thoughts about this, especially the question "are humans just not psychologically able to handle a global internet?" https://t.co/reRA5SiUaC

“Now I’m in my mid-forties and I’m trying a new thing with my depression. I have no idea if it’ll work any better than all the others, but here it goes.” Derek Powazek - Depression is a Loaded Gun https://t.co/QspK96a96f

The more popular a computer platform becomes, the more of a bind in which it inevitably finds itself. A platform is only “finished” when it is abandoned. It needs to evolve to remain relevant, but it’

I wrote some initial iPhone X impressions “The Breakthrough Internet Communications Device Turns X” https://t.co/nYUHBCmxHE https://t.co/9YIMfhp3uG

You are what you read: https://t.co/6s8mrASiyS

The Real Value of Money. Good read. https://t.co/Ge4jDTZN7m

And then when you've read that, check out this reaction piece: "You fired your top talent. I hope you're happy." https://t.co/fv9I1RyPy0

A short story about apartment living, Saint Mark's Cathedral, and hearing your neighbors having sex. https://t.co/g7qk1gMRG0

This story begins, as they so often do , when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM and

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge In the binary world of online communications, companies like Apple and Google are either valorized for their highly influential products and actions or vilified for

Scrum is a suboptimal development methodology that will make developers less intelligent, less disciplined, and more forgetful. Scrum is the least-worst methodology you can adopt in a dysfunctional en

I have a small confession to make. Bad arguments dressed with the tinsel of pseudo-intellectualism are like catnip to me: they drive me crazy, and I’m a total sucker for batting them around. Deep in m

Shortly following new revelations from the New York Times that President Donald Trump's campaign team was in "repeated" contact with Russian officials ahead of the 2016 election, #TrumpImpeachmentPart

For every line of code that ends up in software the general public sees or interacts with, for every line in your Snapchats and Battlezone: Call of Honor Duty Warfare , there are a thousand lines of c

At this moment, at the beginning of the year, I have eight active big rock projects. The following attributes define these projects: I am the primary owner and have committed to someone that they will

Tara Moore/Getty Images Esther is a well-liked manager of a small team. Kind and respectful, she is sensitive to the needs of others. She is a problem solver; she tends to see setbacks as opportunitie

When Nike named Mark Parker their CEO in 2006, one of the first things Parker did was call Apple CEO Steve Jobs for business advice. It might not have seemed it, but at the time Nike was struggling. A

Why do a phone? I asked Steve Jobs ten years ago today. On the stage at the Moscone West hall in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO had just unveiled what would become the most transformative product since th

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This video has been making the rounds and it's absolutely worth your time. https://t.co/zTynHR8zW5

Today in Tedium: As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a lot further than most of its competitors. It managed to improve on a format people were used to (the ol

MIT has a storied history regarding hacking where the act is viewed as a “clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke” at the University. Hack is also defined as the act of breaking into compu

“Redesigning your blog” in 2016 is an anachronism. Like tweaking your Gopher presence or upgrading your ham radio, even talking about blogging feels like a throwback — an exercise in nostalgia for an

this is excellent: therapists need catch up on internet and tech as a vector of stress/anxiety/depression https://t.co/kfO7ILQRxr

Preoccupations Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. Credit... David Saracino I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be

14 min read · Nov 21, 2016 -- Team NP have put up some impressive results since forming two months ago, including a dominating run through the Boston Major qualifiers and 2nd place at their first LAN

Dishonored 2 made me realize how unusual a AAA story game that isn’t deconstructing or pastiching something feels. https://t.co/anfOqdBAtc

Nice explanation of how H.264 video compression works: https://t.co/qRpMozwjba

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Harry is the hero. Right? He’s the guy the story is all about, after all. He’s the Boy Who Lived. He has the scar and the prophecy. He has the sidekicks and the invisibility cloak. He has the mentor. He has the tragic backstory. He faces down the villain. Harry is the hero. It’s his face on the…