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Take This On-Call Rotation and Shove It § Scott Smitelli

#engineering #on_call #reliability #story | At some companies, it is expected that certain engineers will serve as part of a formal on-call rotation. On paper, this seems like a reasonable way to ensure the reliability of the product. In practice, it is a miserable burden and you probably won’t even get paid for it.

8 months ago | View Shared by victor
Hairy Hands - Wikipedia

#driving #horror #story #toread #wikipedia

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

#debug #engineering #story | The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Driving With Mr. Gil: A Retiree Teaches Afghan Women the Rules of the Road

#driving #story #toread | Local lore says that one 82-year-old professor has probably taught more Afghan women drivers in a California town than there are in all Afghanistan. For them, it’s not about empowerment; it’s for groceries.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
The Squatters of Beverly Hills

#fraud #party #property #squat #story #us | After a fugitive doctor abandoned his mansion, an enterprising group of party throwers slid in, upending the lives of their wealthy neighbors.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Intrigue in Copenhagen: A Tale of High-Stakes Corporate Espionage - YouTube

#denmark #espionage #journalism #story #telecoms

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

#GIS #crowdsourcing #google_maps #opinions #reviews #story | Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy

#espionage #longread #russia #story | A Russian spy with an unconventional Peruvian backstory, and a chaotic private life, managed to befriend and engage numerous staff and officers at a NATO base in Italy, a Bellingcat investigation has found.

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' - BBC Future

#habit #health #history #medieval #sleep #story | <blockquote>For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?</blockquote>

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
Detroiters are waging paintball wars as a way to stop gang violence

#guns #story #usa #violence | Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the #PaintballsUpGunsDown movement has gotten out of control and could backfire if officers mistake a paintball gun for a real firearm.

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
He Was the Manager of Windows on the World - The Atlantic

#9/11 #families #story #tragedy

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name - BBC Future

#botany #food #fruit #story | <blockquote>Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Lena @ Things Of Interest

#brain #dystopia #fiction #story #wikipedia

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
June 10, 1990: Miracle of BA Flight 5390 as captain is sucked out of the cockpit – and survives | BT

#accident #aviation #planes #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Town That Went Feral | The New Republic

#america #bears #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
What football will look like in the future

#funny #science_fiction #space #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months | Books | The Guardian

#cooperation #humanity #island #sea #story #tragedy

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Dreams of Debris - ¡Hola Papi!

#chaos #newsletter #perception #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived. - The New York Times

#china #coronavirus #healthcare #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband. Was I making a big mistake?

#funny #phone #relationship #story

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
BBC - Future - The simple words that save lives

#communication #language #psychology #story | <blockquote>Lessons from “expert talkers” could make all the difference when helping a person in crisis.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
BBC - Future - The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game

#logic #maze #story #video_games | <blockquote>With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Masterpiece Theater — The Atavist Magazine

#art #forgery #picasso #production #story

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal | WIRED

#blockchain #cryptography #longread #security #story | <blockquote>One couple thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell. A crypto-tragedy in three acts.</blockquote>

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
Sounds Natural - 99% Invisible

#animal #documentaries #foley #nature #podcast #production #sound_recording #story #video

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? | News | The Guardian

#drugs #health #policy #portugal #story #toread #via:popular

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Art of Storytelling | Pixar in a Box | Partner content | Khan Academy

#education #learning #pixar #story #storytelling #toread

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Weather Warlock: One Man’s Mission to Let You Hear the Sunset on Vimeo

#audio_visualisation #electronic_instrument #music #sonification #story #synthetiser #video #weather | <blockquote>Does a sunny day make a sound? Is there melody in a snowstorm? Musician and electronic instrument inventor Quintron built a device that converts atmospheric conditions…</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Meet the Woman Who Cared for Hundreds of Abandoned Gay Men Dying of AIDS | Out Magazine

#aids #care #hiv #lgbt_history #story | <blockquote>“Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?” says Ruth Cocker Burks.</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
The greatest bug I never fixed - The blog of makandra

#bugs #lua #programming #story

11 years ago | View Shared by victor

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