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On the psychology of layoffs in tech…

Getting to the heart of the matter (!)…

A strange choice for a wine brand (!?)…

Interesting quote from Justin Murphy: > We should try to disconnect from all of these culture-substitutes, which have been spoonfed to us by corporations in naked bids for cognitive control. And i…

A corner…

Interesting historical tidbit: early Lisp had several “similar” languages that died out: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sri/Raphael_A_Brief_Survey_of_Languages_for_Symbolic_and_Algebraic_Manipulation_Se…

An amusing anecdote from a HN comment: > When I joined Sun in '86 I thought it was the pinnacle of technological excellence to be a kernel programmer, and I joined the Systems Group, the notio…

A somewhat off-trace but to-my-taste wish-list: www.otherlife.co/gifts/…