Thursday, August 16, 2018

Pop Goes The Hippo

Last week, a HackerNews user posed the following question to the forum: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer? As it turns out, some pretty messed up stuff!
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BREAKING THE CODE OF ETHICS
Anonymous Programmers Talk About The Most Unethical Things They've Done, And Hoo Boy There Are Some Doozies
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Last week, a HackerNews user posed the following question to the forum: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer? As it turns out, some pretty messed up stuff!
'THEY THINK THEY BELONG TO THEM'
The Great Chinese Art Heist
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Strange how it keeps happening, how the greatest works of Chinese art keep getting brazenly stolen from museums around the world. Is it a conspiracy? Vengeance for treasures plundered years ago? Or is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
TRIAL AND ERROR
The Trouble With Designing A Book When Its Author Is In Jail
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"I'm sorry, he's not thrilled. He wants to see more."
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This Travel Backpack Is Organizational Design At Its Peak
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Peak Design has done it again. Their new Travel Backpack is durable, beautiful and endlessly adaptable. With a range of packing tools, it provides a single organized space to carry it all: clothes, shoes, toiletries, adapters and all your photo gear.
GO BIG OR GO HOME
FRUITS OF THE WEB
The Best Thing Online This Week Is This Cyberpunk Game You Control With Your Voice
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The goal of Nicole He's "ENHANCE.COMPUTER" is simple: find a four-digit code hidden in a picture before someone commits a crime. The only catch is that the only thing you can use to find it is your voice.
HOW DO ALL THOSE PEOPLE FIT IN TOKYO?
The World's 50 Largest Urban Areas, Visualized
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As more and more of the world's population has packed into and around cities, some staggeringly populous urban areas have arisen.
YOUR FIRST IS NEVER YOUR LAST
The Ever-Evolving Art Of The Coming-Out Video
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On YouTube, the personal moment has transformed from bare-bones confessional to something unabashedly public.
'THE WHOLE FIELD WAS FOUNDED BY GUYS!'
How Women Came To Dominate Neuroendocrinology
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According to Adkins-Regan, "a lot of the guys back then were sexual harassers and you either avoided them or left the business."
VIDEO OF THE DAY
... WHY?
Man, Against Better Judgment And Common Sense, Slaps A Hippo's Butt
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We're not sure whether it was a dare or just basic zoo shenanigans, but this goes without saying: please do not do this at your zoo.
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It's Thursday. Time to come out and play. Just don't piss off any hippos.