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Netflix’s Sacred Games. It was their first domestic production and is a straight faced noir cop drama. It’s my favorite crime series of all time - I think it blends The crime boss …

A recommendation to the Dutch "precursor" to Paradise Lost: Vondel's "Lucifer" is a tight five-act play along the same lines. It's about a century older than Paradise Lost, with a …

Your [1] could be Walther J. Ong's Orality and Literacy? It goes into differences between cultures rooted in written/oral language, and has several examples where words that are "m…

Sliding offtopic, but do you have any more memories around this specific collaboration? I'm deeply familiar with the theory, but anecdotes on such an ambitious project would be use…

Thanks for digging out the links on Doreen, pocketed both. But am I reading GP wrong that it wasn't constructionist education proper that failed, but a "let's do things with laptop…

Excellent. Appreciate the answers.

>every kid could be an autodidact just like them once they had the magic laptop So, if I understand you correctly, OLPC went in with a constructionist perspective and it didn't wor…

Can you say more about the autodidacts and the conflict with professional staff? I'm interested in specific areas that were problematic, and if you have any learnings from mitigati…

Playdead spat out a series of incredible GDC talks after their game INSIDE. They did a full presentation on the ending of the game [0] as a collab between engineering, rendering an…

No-one claims that gamedevs see lock-in as something positive; only that very few AAA gamedev shops care about lock-in - especially for a relatively small part of the production pi…

Chernobyl is still open for tours, afaik. You won't get very close to any of the running reactors (and not the closed one, of course) but the tours generally go through the complex…

On the contrary. If you look at the projected search area, it's a huge swath of deep ocean. A plane is very small. Once it breaks up against the waves it's really, really small. Th…

This echoes the tribulations of the original Starcraft devs. [1] > ...based on my experiences the biggest problems in StarCraft related to the use of doubly-linked linked lists. Li…

No, you're right. The use case for Grunt/Gulp is in the name: task runners, to automate the running of tasks, to stabilise and formalise the build process to the point of repeatabi…

Agricultural produce is a strongly limiting factor on how good human life can be - the most important process we run. To give kids a rudimentary insight into the mechanics and econ…

>That's basically the 'hello world' of farming This is an extremely fascinating perspective. I need to go... build something. Wow.

...if they work more /as evaluated by men/.

>how do we know it's not justified? Presumably the pay reflects the work done. Again, do you think studies haven't been done? That's the core of the discussion: pay does not reflec…

An excellent example of structural discrimination - one group both organizes and controls the perception of value in a field. It becomes hard to unless you support the structure - …

I get advertisements for the S3 inbetween pages. Nice touch.

There's also the very basic disappointment that a piece of good software won't grow to maturity. I finally found a mail client that restored my faith in SMTP as a communications me…

It's very hard to prove that high-entropy random data isn't encrypted.

So, now Random actually /is/ Resistance? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6RtzwVdHI

I'll print this and hang it on the wall above my machine. Brilliant.