At the point now where basically any photo that isn't shared by someone I trust or a reputable news organisation is essentially unverifiable as being real or not
The positive aspect of this advance is that I've basically stopped using social media because of the creeping sense that everything is slop
The Joel score is 22 years old now and fairly significantly outdated.
It predates unit-testing, ci/cd concepts, cloud computing, microservices etc etc. Scoring 12 was perfect in 2000 but its below baseline in 2022.
Its funny because once you read enough of it to properly grok the working of the stream of consciousness style it becomes a joy to read, as easy to comprehend as your own internal monologue.
Reading ulysses once you crack it is like trying on someone elses consciousness. Blooms is a nice consciousness to inhabit, Stephens less so, but both almost unbearably rewarding.
Don't get too caught up in understanding every weird association that pops into and out of either characters head, although there is certainly pleasure to be had in doing a close reading with research, where by you get to fill out a characters own mental map.
A book of untouchable genius
on one hand, free travel for millions of citizens, on the other, higher profitability for a handful private bus operators.
Its surprising to me that someone would even consider bringing this up as a valid counter argument. Interesting to see how deeply Neoliberalism has seeped into western culture.
maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEz5GfZUnBU went viral in ireland for the accent and the novelty of seeing a city centre addict being interviewed about football on tv. The point where he strats realizing he is making a coherent point starts around 50 seconds in.
I'm skeptical 800 million dollar projects would pass through local government at that level in 5 minutes, unless everyone who voted in favor had already been canvassed or taken part in intense debates at other meetings or were rubber stamping a special committee decision etc. What regional authority was it where 800 million dollar projects happened so regularly?
Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman.
— She's making for Bullock harbour.
The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain.
— There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one. It's nine days today
The man that was drowned. A sail veering about the blank bay waiting for a swollen bundle to bob up, roll over to the sun a puffy face, salt white. Here I am.
Nice website, if a little unresponsive. If it gets just one more person to crack Ulysses and discover the immense beauty of this extraordinary work than it has to have been worth it.
"I wanted edgy. I wanted mobile. I wanted hip. I wanted cool."
"Actually I continue to fight with myself not to expose two individuals in particular who have been completely toxic to the very infant ecosystem which needs the exact opposite."
"I’ve been in San Francisco for 23 days now. In these 23 days I’ve been here, I’ve met with some of the brightest names in technology angel investing, signed customers, partnered my company with a team of MBAs for an entrepreneurial project, and have had more productive business development meetings than in 10 months in London."
This reads like parody but it seems to be serious. Please be careful mbesto
sounds like a meaningless platitude to me. From my experience most companies have huge difficulties finding good irish candidates because they are both just low in numbers and inclined to immigrate to London.
> China is, simply put, orders of magnitude bigger
Ah China, Like religion, a topic about which people who have no idea about are comfortable making grand, utterly wrong statements.
China's GDP is about 50% bigger than japans, its exports are about 2.5 times japans. The idea that china is too big to fail is ludicrous. It might be possible to argue though, that its too big to succeed
I keep hearing this on HN and reddit, but I think this is a mainly an echo-chamber effect. I'd say its far more likely that the vast majority of people don't actually care or realise what was happening, or they do realise and still don't care. I'd be surprised if the NSA leaks have any noticable impact on Microsoft's revenue.
The positive aspect of this advance is that I've basically stopped using social media because of the creeping sense that everything is slop