Category: Social
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What Coke Contains
What Coke Contains: The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex Well written – hope he writes more like that.
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Markus Perdrizat
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Generation GitHub: Why We’re All in Open Source Now
The GitHub Generation: Why We’re All in Open Source Now: GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, entire companies … and cities. Copy and share society.
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Markus Perdrizat
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History and Future of Ultima RPGs
Shroud of the Avatar is Richard Garriott’s spiritual successor to Ultima: Massively multiplayer online games are dead. Long live meaningful multiplayer online games. Richard Garriott, the man who helped popularize traditional MMOs and practically invented the role-playing gaming genre, is hoping to create a new sort of MMO, one focusing more on meaningful connections and…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel
Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel: When heralding the age of mass customization and the rise of rapid prototyping it is easy to get enthusiastic. Even when talking about what could go wrong, people typically stop at “but a lot of amateurs will generate bad early attempts”. Talk about crapjects and strange shaper…
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Markus Perdrizat
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The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational
The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational: The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. Some more to think about… or just a good reference of the cognitive…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Auditors Criticise Without Value Addition
Auditors Criticise Without Value Addition: The reputation comes from doing post mortems, writing long reports on deficiencies and criticizing the work of business teams. No one likes a critic and especially not those who do not do any value addition. So where are we going wrong? Think about it!
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Markus Perdrizat
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Are these the world’s most innovative big data companies?
Are these the world’s most innovative big data companies?: Fast Company, the American business-minded glossy magazine, has published the latest version of its “Most Innovative Companies” franchise, and there’s a breakout section for what it calls “big data companies.” (Though, if the hype is to be believed, we are all big data companies. Operations-improver Splunk…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Accounting and Auditing in Ancient India
Accounting and Auditing in Ancient India: Professionals want to know the origin of their profession, the work done in olden times and the level of knowledge. I thought of sharing with you the history of Indian accounting and auditing profession. I discovered in Kautilya’s Arthshastra that it existed in ancient India in 4th century BC.…
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Markus Perdrizat
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The social network where we’re all just a number
The social network where we’re all just a number: What if I was secretly a cat person (the horror) and wanted to talk about my love of cats, or had a really embarrassing disease I wanted to talk about with other people? These might not be things I’d tweet about. But maybe I’d head to the new anonymous…
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Markus Perdrizat
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IBM predicts that steampunk will be totally hip this year
IBM predicts that steampunk will be totally hip this year: We’re not quite sure when IBM started making proclamations on the future of fashion, but here we have it: the company’s “Social Sentiment Index” has declared 2013 the year of steampunk. The danger of small numbers… the increase quickly, and suddenly you think there’s a…
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Markus Perdrizat
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