During the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that for 20 years the ICBM launch codes were 00000000 to minimize delay https://t.co/IMW3NXjuiR
Kelly Slater, the world’s premier surfer, has joined forces with wave science geeks to create an artificial wave in the middle of California. Will it revolutionize the sport or destroy the soul of surfing? Yes. https://t.co/CNOgUgfJHr
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave a demo where he introduced:
The mouse, windowed screen design, the user interface, hypertext links, collaborative text editing and video-conferencing
This demo came to be known as “The Mother of All Demos”
Learn more here:
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This experiment of a fish swimming upstream is truly stunning. Why? The fish is dead. If you're streamlined and flexible, you can do a lot by doing nothing at all.
Beal et al. (2006). Passive propulsion in vortex wakes. J. of Fluid Mech., 549, 385-402.
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Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
5.2MB → 500KB
"Le Conseil" : un format de rétro si simple et efficace (de Virginia Satir), pourquoi s'en priver ? Merci à @echar d'@_ut7 de me l'avoir fait connaître. Son article très clair sur le sujet : https://t.co/aIZWoFH25Q
On June 1, 2018, https://t.co/Iyf4F6iPa7 will be shut down. https://t.co/UY5WQW52AQ
Helping people learn to code has been the most fulfilling work I could ever ask for. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on a few of my favorite things we've created over the last 8 years.
Advice to new managers
1 earn trust by giving it
2 hire for EQ, train for IQ
3 eat lunch with your team
4 tell people their work matters
5 be a player-coach
6 feedback in private, praise in public
7 in victory, lead from back
8 in crisis, lead from front
9 walk around and help
I spent 4 hours debugging a multi-threaded lock contention bug in a CLI tool.
Then I watched 2 rockets land up right on their assigned landing pads at the exact same time after launching a vehicle in space.
I quit.