The Lindy effect is an idea that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy.
Source: Lindy effect – Wikipedia
A container filled with Lego fell into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still turning up today.
Source: The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up – BBC News
Spoiler: it’s a wee few thousands of dollars of equipment more then your attempt.
YouTuber Marques Brownlee reveals the truth behind those ultra-cinematic, gorgeous looking ‘Shot on iPhone’ ads that seem too good to be true.
Source: Video: Those ‘Shot on iPhone’ ads are not what they seem
NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for ‘modern’ web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?
I was on the Mongo hype-train for awhile and what happened was the rise of data as a resource and companies rediscovering that your databases aren’t just for storing data but that they are for discovering new things lurking there-in. Mongo, with it’s really piss-poor joining capabilities just doesn’t play well in that world. RDBMS do.
Researchers from antivirus provider Eset, in a blog post published Tuesday, said the malware was spread through a legitimate update module of M.E.Doc, a tax-accounting application that’s widely used in Ukraine.
Source: Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak | Ars Technica
I do enjoy these Millennials will kill/save (choose one) [insert industry here] articles. Mostly for the schadenfreude.
As aging riders hang up their leathers, Harley-Davidson and Honda pin their hopes on smaller, affordable bikes for a new generation.
Source: The Motorcycle Industry Is Dying
The share of new bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities dropped below 12% in 2015 for the first time since 1987, according to a recent analysis released by Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences which tracks data on the state of humanities fields. The drop comes after 10 years in a row of declines, including a 5% drop from the previous year and a 9.5% decline from a recent high point in humanities degrees in 2012.
An exploration of drawing time in Google’s Quickdraw dataset
An Act to amend section 3 of the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 324, of the Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), to clarify and protect the right of the public to information, and for other purposes.
Fifty one years ago today Lyndon Johnson signed FOIA into law, letting us safeguard our freedoms.
So go ahead and celebrate America by making the government give up some of it’s secrets: FOIA machine makes it easy. After all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Source: Freedom of Information Act (United States) – Wikipedia
In 1815, thousands of people came to watch George Wilson, the “Blackheath Pedestrian,” walk 1,000 miles.
Source: How Competitive Walking Captivated Georgian Britain – Atlas Obscura
