Fight as your favourite scientist. Too bad it’s not in English yet. There’s a mobile app planned as well it seems.
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Month: March 2016
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Choosing your VR platform
I have settled for Google Cardboard for the time being
Source: Ask Ars: I can’t choose between Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR! | Ars Technica
Reliving the hostel life through startups
If you really miss hostel life after graduation, just work at a startup I guess.
How can you get hundreds of people to work in sales and marketing for the lowest possible wages? One way is to hire people who are right out of college and make work seem fun. You give them free beer and foosball tables. You decorate the place like a cross between a kindergarten and a frat house. You throw parties. Do that, and you can find an endless supply of bros who will toil away in the spider monkey room for $35,000 a year.
On top of the fun stuff you create a mythology that attempts to make the work seem meaningful. Supposedly millennials don’t care so much about money, but they’re very motivated by a sense of mission. So, you give them a mission. You tell your employees how special they are and how lucky they are to be here. You tell them that it’s harder to get a job here than to get into Harvard and that because of their superpowers they have been selected to work on a very important mission to change the world. You make a team logo. You give everyone a hat and a T-shirt. You make up a culture code and talk about creating a company that everyone can love. You dangle the prospect that some might get rich.
[LinkBlog] When the CEO delivers
That was one lucky guy… In Alaska… Getting delivery of the first unit from the CEO himself
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How not to use Google Maps
Landing up at the wrong location is one thing, but actually tearing down the wrong house after making “verifications” takes a different level of commitment.
Source: Do not blame Google Maps when you tear down the wrong house | The Verge
Street Fighting Scientists
Just look at those moves
Pixel Art animations made for a newsgame called Science Kombat for Superinteressante magazine. There are 8 playable cientist plus one final boss. Each character has 6 basic attacks and 2 special attacks. The idea of the game is to make a link between the “powers” of each character and his or her discoveries and inventions.
Source: Science Kombat
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[LinkBlog] 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
A great piece by the Amazon CTO
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Lemmings for the robot overlords
Pretty much explains why people just follow anyone who takes the lead irrespective of demonstrated competence.
Source: We may all happily follow our robot overlords to disaster | Ars Technica