Berlin opens its first mobility hub and makes it look about as shabby as the average parking lot in Kreuzberg (which is what it is).
Month: April 2019
Nice to see some positive urban development coming from Turkey for a change.
If Berlin votes to expropriate Deutsche Wohnen, it will be a welcome step towards decommodification of housing. Not to mention the long overdue correction that it will give the local housing market.
Here is the sad recounting how the Dutch media fueled the rise of a white nationalist politician to the point where he’s polling as the second largest party now.
I’ve got a Patagonia down jacket and I’m glad that they are taking a stand against the appropriation of the brand by finance bros.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change
Most of my programming career has been focused on keeping things simple and eschewing premature abstractions summarized aptly by: “duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction”
Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary. We know that code represents effort expended, and we are very motivated to preserve the value of this effort. And, unfortunately, the sad truth is that the more complicated and incomprehensible the code, i.e. the deeper the investment in creating it, the more we feel pressure to retain it (the “sunk cost fallacy“). It’s as if our unconscious tell us “Goodness, that’s so confusing, it must have taken ages to get right. Surely it’s really, really important. It would be a sin to let all that effort go to waste.”
https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
An elaboration on High Output Management split into “Running yourself” and “Running your team” by Keith Rabois.
http://delian.io/lessons-3
The best thing about ContraPoints is that she gives the most charitable possible treatment to in this case Gender Critical people (the other time it was Incels) and then still rips them for all that they are.