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Right now, journalists and tech companies are all buzzing and craving for VR. When the first officially released headsets will be available, I expect a massive flop. As soon as the novelty wears off, people will just forget it. Because outside of some narrow use cases, it's just not practical or invisible enough. → Read More

Tim Urban: “[My rehearsal] was three days before my talk—and it was pretty rough, confirming to me and everyone present that I was officially not a fraud when it came to my topic. The irony of a guy rehearsing his TED Talk about how he’s a bad procrastinator, and being clearly underprepared while doing so, was not lost on anyone.” → Read More

Alan Kay: “Innovation is the process of taking something that’s already been invented and packaging it nicer. […] Problem-finding is about how to get something out of almost nothing in some new area.” → Read More

Eevee: “We’ve been doing this for 20 years. We should have this by now. It should work, it should be pluggable and agnostic, and it should do everything right. […] Instead, we stack layer after layer of additional convoluted crap on top of what we’ve already got because we don’t know how to fix it.” → Read More

Something I like in most modern programming languages is that they tend to ditch semicolons completely — semicolons are a nuisance, a waste of time, a source of (easily fixable) errors, ugly and unnecessary. → Read More

Eric Zimmerman: “My goal was that every card should feel incredibly powerful – a potential game winner in the right situation. I loved seeing my playtesters' faces grow greedy as they read the cards, astonished at how good the powers seemed to be.” → Read More

CGP Grey: “The rule of two is that two is one — and one is none.” → Read More