Interesting Links for 25-04-2014

[andrewducker]

• CEO fires employee, is surprised to discover that their motivation drops
  (tags: motivation employment jobs )
• Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Team Up to Stop Another Heartbleed
  (tags: security internet Microsoft Google Facebook infrastructure )
• ARIN runs out of IPv4 addresses
  (tags: internet ipv4 )
• “The Door Problem” - or "What does a game designer

Comments

[nancylebov]

The linked-in link doesn't work.

Since liquid foams stop sound, I hope they develop cheap stable liquid foams for sound-proofing.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I think they pulled the LinkedIn link about an hour after it hit Twitter. Shame, really. The test is probably here: http://pastebin.com/tFhi2fTd (other people have linked to that) but that site is blocked from work, so I can't verify.

And yes, I hope so too - if they can make better insulation the world will be a much nicer place!

[del_c]

Only if builders don't respond with thinner walls. Some things are like a plate warmer; you take a plate off and the built-in spring moves the next plate up to exactly where the last plate was.

[momentsmusicaux]

Why would anyone block pastebin?

[andrewducker]

http://pastebin.com/tFhi2fTd is hopefully the text from it. I can't tell from here (Pastebin is blocked from work), but other people were linking to it after the article was pulled.

No blaming me if it's a Rickroll...

[andrewducker]

It certainly is. Lack of empathy there.

[inamac]

Never mind Westminster - what is the BBC doing to deal with a possible independent Scotland? And a (presumed) split in the licence fee revenue.

[andrewducker]

Lots of options. Independent broadcaster made up of the bits that were based in Scotland, doing a deal to carry on producing contents in both areas, etc.

It's under 10% of the population though, so I'm sure they'd survive.

[danieldwilliam]

There doesn’t appear to me to be a particular reason to do anything to the BBC post independence apart from give the Scottish government one or two places on the board of Trustees and carry on. (And one might extend that to give places to the NI and Welsh Parliaments and the Cornish

[brixtonbrood]

Tragically, the right to make Dr Who branded interlocking plastic bricks was sold to one of the many cheap knockoff companies who sprang up when Lego's fundamental patents expired. Some of the models are quite cute, but they're not Lego.

[quirkytizzy]

I would also pay anything to be a tree on GOT. I simply can't imagine what it would be like to be that famous. I mean, wow. I saw an interview with Jack Gleeson (Joffery) and was surprised to find that he hasn't yet had even one negative fan reaction from being recognized on the street. I am GLAD about that, but he plays such a vile character that I would have thought for sure someone would have a hard time separating the character from the actor.

Though it's why I told Pat that I think he just may be one of the greatest actors I've ever seen - because in my brain, it DOES take that second or two to go "That's not actually Joffery, that's a really talented kid who PLAYS Joffery. That takes a damn good actor to play a role that well, to make it seem so indistinguishable from themselves.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, he does a great job of being utterly evil, despite apparently being lovely. It's a shame he's giving up acting!

[quirkytizzy]

INOWRITE?! Such a shame. I hope he does well at his teaching that he wants to do. Something about teaching some language or another? Ancient languages and history? I'm confident the kid will do amazing at whatever he chooses to do, though. Hopefully he'll still do some acting on the side. The world will be a little deprived without him on the stage!