Tag: code

• The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

  July 24, 2019

  The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it. Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet more ›

• I found your data. It’s for sale.

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve watched you check in for a flight and seen your doctor refilling a prescription. I’ve peeked inside corporate networks at reports on faulty rockets. If I wanted, I could’ve… more ›

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  December 4, 2018

  The Friendship That Made Google Huge One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of… more ›

• Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them…

  May 17, 2016

  Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs » Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could… more ›