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The China Cultural Clash
The NBA controversy in China highlights a culture clash that both tech companies and the U.S. government need to take to heart. Plus, why Tiktok being Chinese is increasingly a problem.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
Erik Bernhardsson
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How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites
Leif Singer, an engineer at Automattic, tells us about interviewing for a remote job at Automattic.
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Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
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PyPy's New JSON Parser
Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...
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Why you should have a side project
I often advocate people surrounding me to build their own side projects. I believe they can fulfill you in so many ways: for your career, your relationships, or your independence. Buffer, the company I currently work for, was itself a side project. I’ve built myself multiple side projects. The major ones being…
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Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial
[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos" with one half to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an…
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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments
During the Asia-Pacific Grandmasters broadcast over the weekend there was a competition rule violation during a post-match interview.
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Clojure 1.11 planning
Tales of Developing Clojure
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R is a joy if you treat it like Awk
Derek's Personal Portfolio/Blog
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Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because their production depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).
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Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries
Yellowstone National Park maintains a collection of sounds and videos taken in the park that are in the public domain and free for anyone to use. The collection
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Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly,
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Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (2017)
Two winters ago I was told a story by a friend of mine. A true story, about an episode from his childhood he’d never mentioned befor...
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macOS Catalina
macOS Catalina, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available as a free software update.
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Cross-Laminated Timber
Cross Laminated Timber (or CLT for short) is a structural building material that can replace concrete and steel in new building construction. I wrote about CLT back in April and mentioned that the Gotham Gal and I are in the process of making two CLT buildings right now. The paper version of the New York […]
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Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
iPhone users in Hong Kong have noticed a change in the latest version of iOS: the 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan emoji [https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/] is missing. Previously restricted [https://blog.emojipedia.org/one-emoji-doesnt-show-on-ios-in-china/] on Chinese iOS devices, all other regions of
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Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com Bernadi et al., KDD’19 Here’s a paper that will reward careful study for many organisations. We’ve previously looked a…
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Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
Our hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate logs that we need to process, store, and serve. The total size of these logs is several petabytes every hour. The o…
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Joint Statement on the GNU Project
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
Asking for a repeat, but in a different speech synthesizer.
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Web Graphics Done Right
Start taking graphics on the web seriously and boost your applications' performance by learning the essentials about digital image formats.
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Perl is dying
Some personal reflections about the evolution and death or programming languages. By the forces a circumstances, I had to reverse engineer and decommission a few Perl scripts in an old company earl…