An appreciation Some nights I like to get the kids to bed, pour a drink, and search the web for military-produced PDFs in order to look at the amazing graphics within them. I’d thought I was the only person with this hobby, but a few weeks ago my friend Finn Smith told me that he, too, likes…

About this document This User's Manual was written for admitted Recursers to help them navigate and understand the Recurse Center. We've decided to publish it in the hope that it will give the outside world a clearer picture of what the Recurse Center is like. You can read more about our motivations…

Posted: April 8th, 2014 | Author: Kent Nguyen | Filed under: Development , Personal , Perspective | 6 Comments » Two years ago I wrote “ Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! ” and until today I have not really revealed publicly how it was the little accidental…

David Simon, creator of The Wire, near his office in Baltimore. Photograph: Stephen Voss/Redux / eyevine A merica is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part…

The original, and still the best Ok, I have a confession to make. I have spent almost my whole life– 31 years– caring far too much about offending people, worrying if I’m cool enough for them, or asking myself if they are judging me. I can’t take it anymore. It’s stupid, and it’s not good for my…

Building a beacon monitor app If you’d just like to cut to the chase and start coding iBeacon support into apps, Radius is selling pre-configured Pis as iBeacon development kits with one or two on-board dongles. Prices start at $100 (£61). With the Pi running as a beacon, the next stage is to create…

My job requires reading a lot of financial news. It's one of my favorite parts. But it gives me a front-row seat to the downside of financial journalism: gibberish, nonsense, garbage, and drivel. And let me tell you, there's a lot of it. Here are a few stupid things I hear a lot. "They don't have…

Bei unserem kürzlich veröffentlichten Artikel zur Folterszene in Grand Theft Auto V fiel uns ein Kommentar besonders auf. In Absprache mit dem Autor veröffentlichen wir diesen Kommentar an dieser Stelle noch einmal separat, da er nicht nur das Thema GTA V behandelt, sondern auch interessante…

bitcoin security broken selfish-mining November 04, 2013 at 10:30 AM ← Older Newer → Bitcoin is broken. And not just superficially so, but fundamentally, at the core protocol level.We're not talking about a simple buffer overflow here, or even a badly designed API that can be easily patched;…

Just released: Issue 19 Posted on Apr 18 2018 in News In time for the lovely spring weather here in Germany, issue 19 launches today and will start shipping early next week. To be part of the first big batch leaving our warehouse, make sure you order your copy today . As a subscriber you will…

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By now you are probably wondering how much more this Jury guy can go on about elasticities and pricing and all the rest of these shenanigans. Well, this post will wrap things up on this topic. I've have spent the past four posts extolling the virtues of demand curves, revenue maximization, charging…

By James Kwak I spent the past two days at a financial regulation conference in Washington (where I saw more BlackBerries than I have seen in years—can’t lawyers and lobbyists afford decent phones?). In his remarks on the final panel, Frank Partnoy mentioned something I missed when it came out a few…

… Zip drives ate floppies. CD s ate Zips. DVD s ate CD s. SD cards ate film. LCD s ate CRT s. Telephony ate telegraphy. Text messaging ate talking. Tablets are eating our paper … Imagine a table: Hundreds of meters long and wooden. Worn and oiled. Old and knotted. Wide enough for a person. Now —…

November 13, 2012 Understanding Like-gate Several prominent people are up in arms about Facebook charging for access to users who have already Liked their page. I believe this debate is missing the big picture, and what we are in fact witnessing is the unfurling of the full-fledged Facebook business…

The Apple Haters’ 7 Stages of Grief I wish I could take credit for this but I can’t. Got this from an arstechnica.com forum posting from way back in June of 2010. The forum poster’s moniker is The Real Blastdoor . Please join me in thanking him for this, because it is absolutely pure gold.…

Follow Us Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook Messenger Email Nikolas Cruz punches own face, rambles about demons in chilling confession video The Nikolas Cruz confession tapes were released on Wednesday, and... What to expect from Howard Stern's upcoming book "I’m really curious what the…

One of the more interesting numbers reported by Tim Cook during the last earnings conference call was the total payment to developers during the fourth quarter. This is the first time that Apple reported a quarterly payout to developers. The figure was $700 million and it was mentioned in reference…

Looking at the comments on my Niall Ferguson takedown (see Ezra Klein, Matthew O’Brien, James Fallows, and Noah Smith for more), I found my memory jogged about a point I’ve been meaning to make about the nature of error in economics. It seems to me that when readers declare that some piece of…

Getting Philosophical Given that I’ve just changed jobs, it isn’t entirely surprising that I’ve had a lot of conversations recently about why I decided to do so. Generally when someone leaves a job, coworkers, managers, HR personnel, friends, and family are all interested in knowing why. Personally,…

Leica is considered one of the most prestigious camera brands. In this tutorial, we will draw one of the most notable Leica cameras in Photoshop, the Leica M1. Let's get started! Step 1: Background and Floor Make new file (Command/Ctrl + N) and set its size to 110 × 700 px. Activate gradient tool.…

Having covered Core Data syncing via iCloud from a high level, in this post I want to introduce a simple test app, which will be extended over the coming weeks. The app should eventually contain most of the code snippets you will need to get your own app up and running with iCloud. Installing the…

Sticky TOC engaged! Do not remove this! History has proven that tossing out a familiar platform that prints money for your business and starting anew isn't easy: just ask Apple and Microsoft, whose next-generation desktop operating systems in the 1990s (codenamed "Copland" and "Cairo," respectively)…