Interesting Links for 15-04-2016
Apr. 15th, 2016 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
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- The researcher who claimed that you either "get" computers or don't has now retracted their claim.
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- If traditional relationships were treated like alternative relationships
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- Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line.
- (tags: OhForFucksSake web computers epicfail )
- Chrome 50 ends support for Windows XP, OS X 10.6, other old versions
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- Millions of women left unabused after Twitter outage
- (tags: twitter abuse funny satire )
- Star Trek: TOS - more female friendly (and downright feminist) than a lot of modern TV
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- I like this an awful lot. I have no idea why. Anyone care to explain me to me?
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- Person finds their grandfather's notebook. Discovers things about them they never expected.
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- The Flynn Effect and abstract reasoning
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- When Trigger Warnings Attack!: What happens when they're taken too far?
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- China moves Dr Strange's origin from Tibet to Nepal. In other news, China is a big movie market.
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- A GUIDE FOR YOUNG LADIES ENTERING THE SERVICE OF THE FAIRIES
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- Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt Terry Pratchett collaboration for TV
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- How the U.N. caused Haiti’s cholera epidemic
- (tags: disease UnitedNations visualisation )
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Date: 2016-04-15 02:08 pm (UTC)Many other good links will, ofc, be going in my linkspam in the morning ;)
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Date: 2016-04-15 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-04-16 07:32 pm (UTC)Or, alternatively, bored bloke makes joke on forum and entire world of journalism repeats it without running a basic check. His company website is still up as are all of his servers, and he's been interviewed by an Italian newspaper already.
Wasn't even meant as a full hoax, apparently.