Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Facebook has recently presented a new way to compose applications, an application architecture they named Flux. They reported that as modern web applications grow in complexity, this model eases the maintenance and the cognitive load required to develop them. I jumped in excitement (it’s true!) as I immediately saw the beauty of the model. But…
Are you a bored American looking to salvage the summer with a memorable camp experience? Sure you are. But are you also an impressionable young mind who wants nothing to do with sports, building houses, or miscegenation? Then you’re in luck, little ticking time bomb. Because America’s Very Own Ku Klux Klan has just the place…
React.js is a fantastic library. Sometimes it seems like the best thing since sliced Python. React is only one part of a front-end application stack, however. It doesn’t have much to offer when it comes to managing data and state. Facebook, the makers of React, have offered some guidance there in the form of Flux….
From Whitesboro’s Facebook page. Facebook/Village of Whitesboro Above is the town seal, which dates back to the 19th century, of Whitesboro, New York. It depicts a white man throwing an American Indian man to the ground and looks like something that would be found in Parks and Recreation‘s satirically insensitive town of Pawnee. The image…
Gideon Grudo and Tyler Krome are cheap journalists. Grudo wrote the open-source story reddit revolts below, with Krome assisting. They want you to reprint, revise, repurpose, or rewrite it – without their consent. Why give away their work? Says Grudo, a former SPJ national board member… reddit is home to hundreds of millions of people who are interacting with media, posting…
The turmoil in China’s stock market is so bad that some companies are calling it quits. Over 700 Chinese companies have halted trading to “self preserve,” according to the state media. That means about a quarter of the companies listed on China’s two big exchanges — the Shanghai and Shenzhen — are no longer trading….
Are you obsessed with gadgets, apps, and technology in all its many forms? Come work with us! Gizmodo is seeking part-time researchers to analyze, report and write about consumer electronics and tech. This is an ideal job for a person who wants to learn the tech blogging ropes. You’ll work with Gizmodo staffers to find…
Over the past several months, many of the world’s most famous scientists and engineers — including Stephen Hawking — have said that one of the biggest threats to humanity is an artificial superintelligence. But Linus Torvalds, the irascible creator of open source operating system Linux, says their fears are idiotic. He also raised some good…
Image Credit Caption inside of wrapper on slideshow media types Caption outside of wrapper for normal article images Sales of the new Apple Watch have plunged by 90% since the opening week, according to a new market-research report. Apple AAPL, -1.73% has been selling fewer than 20,000 watches a day in the U.S. since the…
In May, a Vanity Fair article about Bill Simmons’s departure from ESPN said that Grantland had 6 million unique visitors in March but that “ESPN’s internal numbers … had the site reaching 10 million uniques in April.” Late last year, The Wall Street Journal noted that Buzzfeed had 74.6 million monthly uniques, but that its…