A very profound interview.
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Radley Balko on the Militarization of America’s Police Force
VICE talks about why people fear/hate the police more and more, how the militarization of police and the increased use of force are signs that feedback loops are set up to make things worse. 🙁
Next Future Terrifying Technology Will Blow Your Mind
An awesome talk with Bruce Schneier and Julian Sanchez. Asking just the right questions and giving and eyeopening view into what is possible even with todays technology.
https://youtu.be/JbQeABIoO6A
Poetic APIs
During PyCon 2014 Erik Rose gave a very insightful talk about dos and don’ts of designing APIs. Towards the end he “gets meta” and groups all his points into categories drawing connections how different design goals influence each other. You see two main groups–”lingual” and “mathematical”–and he closes with this gem: 😀
This spotlights something that programming languages have over ordinary human languages. Programs are alive! They not only mean things when people read them, but they actually do things when run. So, very literally a program with carefully chosen symbols is poetry in motion.
— Erik Rose (PyCon 2014)
https://youtu.be/JQYnFyG7A8c
FIFA behind the scenes
The Last Thing D Needs
Scott Meyers’ hilarious talk about C++ idiosyncrasies. 😀
No Border Can Withstand Human Will
Very well put:
Has humanity ever built a border that can withstand human will?
Facebook Intorduces Auto-play Video Ads
Yes, finally, more “valuable” “content” on Facebook as it introduces auto-play video ads … at least the ads don’t have audio.