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I've found something similar with old films: there have been countless movies made, and the better ones have been preserved and left for us today. However, they are often less accessible and need commentaries to clue us in to their world.

Definitely a good selection of books, just a note that the actual books in the series sometimes have quite small print and aren't the most comfortable way to read. I'd recommend using the list and then checking for recent translations/editions of the books.

Thank you!

Thank you kindly! Appreciate the shout-out!

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The big challenge of the frontend will be translating the hard data downloaded from the satellite into formats usable by a variety of audiences. React + TypeScript.

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

The Amazon effect, which I am guilty of supporting. I walked into a Guitar Center earlier this year and tried out some of their cheaper nylon acoustic models, but wanted to splurge on a big higher quality model, none of which they had in-store. They said they'd have to custom-order it. At that point it was easier just to order from Amazon and deliver to my address... which I did (ended up being shipped from a store in Chicago which listed on Amazon).

Thank you for posting this. He was in the tech industry - I feel like he may have had an account here, or known someone who does. It's a small world, it's weird his identity hasn't been tracked down yet...

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The big challenge of the frontend will be translating the hard data downloaded from the satellite into formats usable by a variety of audiences. React + TypeScript.

Also hiring a backend position (Golang + Cloud experience preferred).

This is a US-based remote team, and post-covid it will continue to be remote.

Thought you were joking, but unfortunately you weren't... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

Just how many parts of the stack does Google have its fingers in?

EDIT:

Consider this:

1. a user at home, wearing a Fitbit walks over to their computer, with their Nest camera recording their movements

2. they open their Chromebook, which uses Chrome OS

3. browses to their Gmail inbox with Chrome, and clicks on a link in one of their emails, sent by a friend using a Google Pixel phone running Android.

4. via their Fiber ISP

5. using Public DNS (8.8.8.8)

6. transfers between the US and Europe via the Grace Hopper subsea cable

7. transfers with HTTP/2 (based on SPDY)

8. to the website on the .dev TLD.

Google is in every step above. Thankfully the webpage doesn't use AMP, or Google would be in that step as well. And good thing it's not a page built on Angular, or hosted in Google Cloud...

I haven't seen it yet. Guess it's going on my "to watch" list :)

12 Angry Men

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Walkabout

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Koyaanisqatsi

A profound movie with no words except the chanting of a Hopi word, meaning "life out of balance", or "a way of life that calls for another way of life".

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My Dinner With Andre

"We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now, may very well be a self perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks, and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?"

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The Third Man

(Long shot from Martins' eye line of the fairground far below and the people now on it.)

"Would you feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you £20,000 for every dot that stopped - would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man......free of income tax. It's the only way to save money nowadays."

I agree that it looks funny here. But I think it's more of a strategic thing: it reveals the target audience they're addressing, and trying to show "hey, we're one of you" before saying anything more controversial that follows (that it's at all controversial is more sad than funny however).

I agree, videos shouldn't be censored unless they put other folks in danger. It's scary that there are some "flat earthers" who are just playing characters in order to get the ad revenue, but in the end they're harmless.

There's been a really worrying trend towards this idea of censorship or deplatforming. It comes out of the same spirit as silencing or burning heretics in the Middle Ages, of Nazi book burnings, and of McCarthyism. Not a sign of a healthy democracy...

Just for the record, in 2011 Santa Cruz was proud to be the first in the US to try predictive policing:

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2011/01/14/crime-predictio...

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/06/20/santa-cruz-cons...

Wrong.. kids, get ready for the most slippery slip 'n slide adventure!

Doing market research for the Ballmer Peak

I was somewhat dreading what the interface would look like on my next car purchase. On the one hand I'd love the idea that the navigational map on my phone may be displayed on the car's "big screen", but I didn't know what to make about this touchscreen stuff.

Makes a lot of sense! Right now I can adjust almost everything by touch alone: cruise control, volume, etc. I would hate for those to get buried in an inevitable submenu on a touchscreen.

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Location: Charleston, SC

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Willing to relocate: Yes

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Email: david.b.calhoun@gmail.com

Experienced frontend web developer with an understanding of frontend fundamentals (plain old JavaScript, HTML, and CSS) as well as frameworks that build on those fundamentals (React.js, etc). Experience working in environments with unclear requirements, and pushing to get a better understanding directly from users themselves when possible.

React + Node.js + EdTech or other good causes is my ideal combination! Willing to relocate for the right position.

Have done work for Netflix, Google, Yahoo!, as well as a few other smaller companies.

All indications are that Americans are fatter than ever, but I wish this poll included height as well, for more context. Even though BMI (height + weight) is imperfect, I think it's still more descriptive than just weight alone. Also, the average height of populations changes over time, so naturally their weight will also increase, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's an unhealthy increase.

According to this Time article, American heights increased in previous decades but pretty much stalled out: https://time.com/4423803/how-tall-100-years-height/ So I guess the results are pretty much the same even without the height info.

This is great, thanks! This is very similar to one of my favorite parts from Sickness Unto Death:

"Now this form of despair goes virtually unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. One is ground as smooth as a pebble. Far from anyone thinking of such a person as being in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. He is praised by others; honored, esteemed, and occupied with all the goals of temporal life.

Yes, what we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. They use their abilities, amass wealth, carry out enterprises, make prudent calculations, and the like, and perhaps are mentioned in history, but they are not authentic selves. They are copies. In a spiritual sense they have no self, no self for whose sake they could venture everything, no self for God, however self-consumed they are otherwise."

At the bottom: "Last updated August 7, 2017"

Wonder what changed today?

wwiaircombat.com (WWI flight sims) (June 18-July 18, 2009) Firefox: 45.89% IE (overall): 41.99% IE 8: 45.64% IE 7: 37.78% IE 6: 16.54% Opera: 5.38% Chrome: 3.51% Safari: 2.81%

The large percentage dedicated to Opera is likely due to the fact that my site's been covering a WWI Flight sim developed in Russia, and Russia has a huge Opera user base: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/07/02/gbs-update-20090702/