“Chatting with a few other Googlers, it sounds like there’s a fair contingent of Glass developers who use emacs (and possibly emacspeak) on Glass.”
— Google I/O 2013 & Google Glass - Massively Parallel Procrastination
“All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team.”
— iDoneThis blog: The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren’t Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect SATs
“Google’s 850 new hand-drawn emoji”
— Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google’s big fix for its messaging mess | The Verge
“it was based on an old standard that predated the advent of cloud computing”
— Exclusive: Inside Hangouts, Google’s big fix for its messaging mess | The Verge
“Diverse content becomes a homogenous mixture.”
— How Google Unified Its Products With A Humble Index Card | Co.Design: business innovation design
“these piles of pixels are revolutionizing the way”
— How Google Unified Its Products With A Humble Index Card | Co.Design: business innovation design
“That probably sounds pretty creepy in a “Google’s using my data and telling me what it thinks I want again” sort of way. But it is the opposite of insidious. It is honest. And it fixes the one thing that has always been wrong with maps.”
— Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography - Leo Mirani - The Atlantic
“DELIVERY workers tramp through tunnels under Gaza — carrying bags and buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The famous fast food has gone underground as Palestinians order the takeaways from Egypt.
Boxes and bags emblazoned with Colonel Sanders famous red and white logo move swiftly through the smuggling tunnels that run beneath the border.
The fried food has to make its subterranean journey across as there is no KFC restaurant in the Palestinian region.
Israeli restrictions on Gaza crossings make it difficult to open an international fast food branch in the area.”
“Isn’t it funny how all these attempts to make a better world turn out to be ways of making a more expedient workforce? What are Special Economic Zones and their Charter City children if not playgrounds for economic experimentation? What is the history of globalization if not the history of corporations setting up operations in territories that offer them unregulated freedom to innovate on their production practices? I hear they are doing wonderful cutting-edge work in Bangladesh around high density rapid-construction factory architecture, even if it is occasionally catastrophically buggy.
How come the innovations are all crushingly, depressingly the same? We’ve thoroughly innovated in the area of long hours, harsh work conditions, abridged employee rights, and poor safety standards. Maybe it’s time to try something else. Where are the SEZs that are collectivist utopias? Where are the SEZs that abolish paid work altogether? Why isn’t there a matriarchal SEZ?
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“A brief history of rich people with opinions”
“There comes a moment in the career of every mega-rich industrialist when they look around and think, “I could run a better society.”
Rooftop Racetrack: 1928 via Retronaut
“The Lingotto building, Turin, Italy, once housed a Fiat factory. Built between 1916 and 1923, the design had five floors, raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through the building. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level, where there was a rooftop test track. It was the largest car factory in the world at the time. Le Corbusier called it “one of the most impressive sights in industry”, and “a guideline for town planning”.”
(Source: ryanpanos)
Speak the IP address of your linux machine. Perfect for Raspberry PIs or other headless servers with audio output. Just plug in a speaker or earphones and wait to be told the IP address to ssh to!
“Speak the IP address of your linux machine. Perfect for Raspberry PIs or other headless servers with audio output. Just plug in a speaker or earphones and wait to be told the IP address to ssh to!”
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