Tamara Winter shares a thread responding to new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. (more)

typically refers to RDBMS being ab-used(?) to not have a schema, in exchange for (more)

A tool/platform/market/ecosystem for people to teach and learn outside an institution (so not counting LMSs). (more)

Erlang virtual machine: BEAM is the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP).[1] BEAM is part of the Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS), which compiles Erlang source code into bytecode, which is then executed on the BEAM.[2][3] BEAM bytecode files have the .beam file extension.[4] Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be referred to as Björn's Erlang Abstract Machine, after Björn Gustavsson, who wrote and maintains the current version.[1][5][6] Both developers worked on the system while at Ericsson... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) (more)

a Private Equity company is typically a LBO or Hedge Fund. Typically acquires a largish/mature company, makes a significant change, then flips it. (Often that significant change is asset stripping.) (more)

OLPC talk by RedHat guy (ChrisBlizzard) at Google space (more)

aka One Laptop Per Child http://laptop.org/ (more)

UI originally designed for the OLPC (more)

developer of Sugar UI https://www.sugarlabs.org/ (more)

OLPC's $100 laptop was going to save the world. Where is it now? By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more than a decade later, the project’s legacy is more complicated than a simple cautionary tale. Its laptops are still rolling off production lines, and a new model is expected later this year. (more)

Independent expenditure-only political action committees, better known as Super PACs, are a type of political action committee (PAC) in the United States. Unlike traditional PACs, Super PACs are legally allowed to fundraise unlimited amounts of money from individuals or organisations for the purpose of campaign advertising; however, they are not permitted to either coordinate with or contribute directly to candidate campaigns or political parties.[1] Super PACs are subject to the same organizational, reporting, and public disclosure requirements of traditional PACs. Super PACs were made possible by two judicial decisions in 2010: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and, two months later, Speechnow.org v. FEC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_PAC

typically legacy media: newspaper, TV, radio (more)

similar to Location Based Service? (more)

A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage.[1][2] Protests can be thought of as acts of cooperation in which numerous people cooperate by attending, and share the potential costs and risks of doing so.[3] Protests can take many different forms, from individual statements to mass political demonstrations. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to enact desired changes themselves.[4][5] When protests are part of a systematic and peaceful nonviolent campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as civil resistance or nonviolent resistance. Various forms of self-expression and protest are sometimes restricted by governmental policy (such as the requirement of protest permits),[7][8] economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly. One state reaction to protests is the use of riot police. Observers have noted an increased militarization of protest policing in many countries, with police deploying armored vehicles and snipers against protesters. When such restrictions occur, protests may assume the form of open civil disobedience, more subtle forms of resistance against the restrictions, or may spill over into other areas such as culture and emigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest

The Father of Futarchy Has an Idea to Reshape DAO Governance. Sixteen years after Robin Hanson published a seminal paper on using prediction markets to inform governance decisions, his ideas have found a home in the Ethereum community. (more)

Pondering a claim-refactoring UI. You'd highlight a sentence, as in hypothes.is (annotation systems), and ask "what does this really mean?" (more)

Britt Blaser is playing with the idea of an Assertion Processor - including tags in MicroContent (esp. RSS feeds) to allow "facts" to be connected over time. See: Harpers Magazine Taxonomy, Ontology, 2003-08-31-DumbillRdfQuad, Reputation Management... (more)

Bryan Johnson (born August 22, 1977) is an American entrepreneur,[1][2] venture capitalist,[3] writer and author.[4] He is the founder and former CEO of Kernel, a company creating devices that monitor and record brain activity,[5][6] and OS Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage science and technology companies.[7] Johnson was also the founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree,[8] a company specializing in mobile and web payment systems for e-commerce companies. Braintree acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million; the combined entity was acquired by PayPal for $800 million in 2013.[9][10] Johnson has received media attention for his anti-aging attempt which he refers to as "Project Blueprint". (life extension) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Johnson

The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit (EITC or EIC) is a refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children. The amount of EITC benefit depends on a recipient's income and number of children. Low-income adults with no children are eligible.[1] For a person or couple to claim one or more persons as their qualifying child, requirements such as relationship, age, and shared residency must be met. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit (more)

an attempt to provide Welfare without the negative side-effects (more)