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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.

Aaron Schwartz

In my Twitter timeline, I see a lot of frustration with Uber. It’s easy for people in tech to pile on and Tweet about how they’re switching to Lyft, or Sidecar, or going back to driving their Tesla and parking it with LuxeValet. But that misses a key point: this isn’t just about Uber, this is about Silicon Valley, and our culture. Fred Wilson blogs about Uber’s values and culture, their combination of “ruthless execution and total arrogance” — but those are the values and culture that we reward in the Valley. We tend to value ruthless execution and short-term success…and we make media heroes out of founders that deliver on what we value. Instead, we should reward healthy competition, long-term shareholder value, and responsible leadership.

Hey Silicon Valley, We Are All Uber

Yep. Uber is the true face of Silicon Valley’s values.

(via buzz)

iamdanw

A quidditch game requires each team to have a maximum of four players who identify with the same gender, excluding the seeker. The gender that a player identifies with is considered to be that player’s gender, which may or may not be the same as that person’s sex. We call this the “four maximum” rule. USQ accepts those who don’t identify within the binary gender system, and acknowledge that not all of our players identify as male or female. We welcome people of all identities and genders into our league.

(via iamdanw)

There’s a bunch of different ways you can implement the process of finding and reclaiming all of the unused objects, but the simplest and first algorithm ever invented for it is called “mark-sweep”.

It was invented by John McCarthy, the man who invented Lisp and beards, so you implementing it now is like communing with one of the Elder Gods, but hopefully not in some Lovecraftian way that ends with you having your mind and retinas blasted clean.

— Robert Nystrom, Baby's First Garbage Collector

#Garbage Collector #John McCarthy #How's your saturday night going?

communitytv

internet-haze

Our job isn’t to fight it, but to weather it together, on the raft of life.

Yahoo's promotion of the next season of Community is already streets ahead of NBC's / Sony's.

#Community #Abed Nadir #Dani Pudi

danforth

#crying

humansofnewyork

"Sometimes it feels like I’m not a part of anything. There are so many people here, you’d think that I’d be able to make friends with one of them. But it always seems like everyone has got their own thing going on, or their own group of friends that they hang out with. Most weekends I just take a long walk, or go to a restaurant by myself. I’ve done some neat things alone, and I’m glad that I did those things, but I’m really getting to the point where I’d also like to experience things with other people. Everybody tells me: ‘You should do this,’ or ‘You should do that.’ But nobody says ‘Let’s do this,’ or ‘Let’s do that.’"

communitytropes

Forget about the girl, I told myself. Let her go, like a lobster claw letting go of a small balloon for lobsters.

internet-haze

Me listening to Serial.

#Community #Ken Jeong #Ben Chang #Serial

thethingaboutprogramming

The thing about programing is it makes you more interested in designing systems to reduce work load than doing the actual work.

There’s always that moment where you’ve done a repetitive task n times, and you can’t decide whether automating it would actually save you time in the future, or just be a fun distraction to relieve you from the boredom of doing it.

purplebuddhaproject

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman (via purplebuddhaproject)

What would happen, I asked, if we had to walk around with our true wealth flashing as a number above our heads? It would be the end of consumerism, he replied. Why would you need to buy something to represent wealth if everyone knew exactly what you were worth already?

— Carl Richards, Living Your True Wealth

#Money #Wealth