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A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
…rules that are decades old persist without evidence to support the idea that someone reading an e-book or playing a video game during takeoff or landing is jeopardizing safety. Nevertheless, Les Dorr, a spokesman for the F.A.A., said the agency would rather err on the side of caution when it comes to digital devices on planes. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
A new adventure - http://www.emilsit.net/blog...
‘Would you teach them enough biotechnology to pass?’ And she said, ‘How would I do that? I don’t know the subject.’ I said, ‘No, use the method of the grandmother.’ She said, ‘What’s that?’ I said, ‘Well, what you’ve got to do is stand behind them and admire them all the time. Just say to them, ‘That’s cool. That’s fantastic. What is that? Can you... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Let’s pay a visit to Whole Foods’ splendid Columbus Circle store in New York City. As you descend the escalator you enter the realm of a freshly cut flowers. These are what advertisers call “symbolics”—unconscious suggestions. In this case, letting us know that what’s before us is bursting with freshness. Flowers, as everyone knows, are among the... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
if you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. In practice this means that to log into your account from any place other than your own computer, you have to enter an additional code, from Google, shown on your mobile phone. On your own computer, you enter a code only once every 30 days. This is not an airtight solution,... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Rules for Development Happiness - http://www.emilsit.net/blog...
Last year a former Apple employee related his favorite Steve Jobs story to me. I have no way of knowing if it is true, so take it for what it’s worth. I think it nicely captures the man who changed the world four times over. When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
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Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural, racial, and regional divides. Why do so many of us drink orange juice? […] how is it that we don’t know the real reasons behind OJ’s popularity or understand the processes by which the juice is produced? In this enlightening book, Alissa Hamilton... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Competence is highly overrated,” says Pfeffer, the Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. In his latest book Power: Why Some People Have it — and Others Don’t, Pfeffer debunks the belief that virtue is rewarded. But it pays to have the right political skills. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
[This American Life] goes into clear detail about the idiocies of the patent system — how even software engineers with patents don’t believe that software processes should be patentable; how patents are regularly awarded for ideas which have been around for years; how multiple patents are often awarded for much the same idea; how IV is essentially... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Consumption of good food—whatever “good” happens to be—entitles you to good health. This equation of privilege with health drives me crazy: The way that an experience of privilege now means exerting an exacting control over your food whether you’re making sure to eat every color of your chakra (true story!) or only alkalines. I like the food sold... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Geeks enjoy incredible privilege. With that privilege, the responsibility is twofold. First, we have to acknowledge the power that comes with it. This means we stop acting like mistreated outcasts and using our skills to get back at the ghosts of our former bullies because we will show them. Second, when we have choices about what to do with our... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following: … The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success. The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority. How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group. Personal... - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
… parenting is a supremely masochistic kind of self-sacrifice - you spend years teaching them how to be independent adults and then THEY TURN INTO INDEPENDENT ADULTS. If you are parenting correctly, you are essentially teaching your children all they need to know to one day break your heart. That’s the awful, beautiful core of parent-child love. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Store Hudson configuration in Git - http://www.emilsit.net/blog...
Planning-ness 2010 Presentations - http://planningness.com/plannin...
All (?) the slide decks from a conference about "get excited and make things". Probably worth looking through.
- Emil Sit
One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) » Blog Archive » Advanced Mocking: Capturing State with Answer and Captors - http://www.canoo.com/blog...
How to do some fancy stuff with Mockito, plus best practices for mock helpers.
- Emil Sit
behind the times: Mockito - Pros, Cons, and Best Practices - http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com/2010...
A comparison of Mockito and EasyMock but the real value is in the best practices.
- Emil Sit
Vi Hart: Mathematical Doodling - http://vihart.com/doodling/
Series of videos drawing and explaining some math-y things. The author likes Harry Potter and making puns. And talks very fast.
- Emil Sit
Wikileaks Cablegate Roundup - Waxy.org - http://waxy.org/2010...
Andy Baio's excellent round-up of various Wikileaks related links.
- Emil Sit
Computer Science Unplugged | - http://csunplugged.org/
Lessons and more for how to teach computer science concepts without a computer.
- Emil Sit
Yishan Wong - http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/
The most interesting writings on this page are about Engineering Management.
- Emil Sit
Presenting the Permanent Generation : Jon Masamitsu's Weblog - http://blogs.sun.com/jonthec...
And this is why we have PermGen...
- Emil Sit
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