Link Dump 2015-10-15

2015-10-15

• Some video games now have architects involved to design the buildings.

• How you know you're not worthy: you can't even lift a hammer that contains an electromagnet. Although, if you put it in an elevator...

• Crocs (the shoe company) used someone's Instagram picture in their feed without permission, raising privacy concerns. Question: who owns the intellectual property of an Instagram? Are companies/others allowed to use it for advertising, even if there is no immediate commercial gain? What about tweets, and how they are now used on live TV?

• A colleague at Oxy was involved in the recent large-scale replication studies, and here's the experience from one of the authors that was replicated

• The bar code on boarding passes turns out to contain a lot of personal information. From now on I'm going dispose of mine a lot more carefully.

• It's interesting that Harvard actually have backlash to their computer science programs - in Harvard's case, that the intro CS class is starting to become a cult.

• The only fictional female murderer-for-fun I can think of is Xenia Onatopp from Goldeneye.

• There was an article a while back about how people would rather get electrical shocks than be left alone to their thoughts. Which is why people dislike boredom, especially since it's something people don't have a lot of anymore.

• Do people honestly think that we pick jobs based solely on salary?