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“My interest in education is unglamorous. I don’t have an enormous desire to help children, but I have an enormous desire to create better adults.”
—Dr. Dobb’s | Interview with Alan Kay | July 10, 2012
July 2012
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kottke.org: God mode in-app purchase for iOS games →
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Free idea for iOS game devs: for just about any iOS game I’ve played for the more than 60 minutes, I would pay dearly (like $10-15) for a God-mode option that let you play the game infinitely long without dying. The type of God mode would depend on the game. For Tiny Wings, it would be as simple…
god mode for angry birds - unlimited birds so you can annihilate pig compounds.
In Strict Confidence - Morpheus (Hecq Remix)
in strict confidence - morpheus (hecq remix)
“The good news is that, because computers cannot and will not “understand” us the way we understand each other, they will not be able to take over the world and enslave us (at least not for a while). The bad news is that, because computers cannot come to us and meet us in our world, we must continue to adjust our world and bring ourselves to them. We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of our selves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours.”
—n+1: The Stupidity of Computers
“We will increasingly see ourselves in terms of these ontologies and willingly try to conform to them. This will bring about a flattening of the self—a reversal of the expansion of the self that occurred over the last several hundred years. While in the 20th century people came to see themselves as empty existential vessels, without a commitment to any particular internal essence, they will now see themselves as contingently but definitively embodying types derived from the overriding ontologies. This is as close to a solution to the modernist problem of the self as we will get.”
—n+1: The Stupidity of Computers
“LIBOR is used as a benchmark to set payments on about $800 trillion-worth of financial instruments, ranging from complex interest-rate derivatives to simple mortgages. The number determines the global flow of hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Over the past week damning evidence has emerged, in documents detailing a settlement between Barclays and regulators in America and Britain, that employees at the bank and at 20 other big unnamed banks tried to rig the number time and again over a period of at least five years…In settlements with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in Britain and America’s Department of Justice, Barclays accepted that its traders had manipulated rates on hundreds of occasions.”
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The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance | The Economist (via jonathanmarcus)
motherfucking bankers fucked with my mortgage! burn city burn!
“One of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left, John Sculley got a very serious disease. And that disease—I’ve seen other people get it, too—it’s the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90 percent of the work. And if you just tell people, ‘here’s this great idea,’ then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”
—Steve Jobs (via msg)
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“I belong to a generation of Americans who dimly recall the world prior to television. Many of us, I suspect, feel vaguely ashamed about this, as though the world before television was not quite, well, the world. The world before television equates with the world before the Net—the mass culture and the mechanisms of Information. And we are of the Net; to recall another mode of being is to admit to having once been something other than human.”
—William Gibson in the essay Rocket Radio (1989). Published in Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012) with a note: “I knew not Net, when I wrote this, though I had friends who talked Net, and fairly constantly.” (via inky)
