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In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal retrospection, reveals the dire conditions of late capitalism so many Americans now live under, and makes you feel worse after…
Presently, real-time communication tools such as Slack are very popular in business environments. However, use of these tools creates a culture that harms projects. It negatively impacts planning a...
Whenever new technologies emerge, the first priority for a technologist is to understand the implication of adopting it. Serverless architecture is a case in point.
J 1 is a concise, interpreted array programming language which looks infamously like line noise. It is the successor to APL , which is a concise, interpreted array programming language which looks infamously like hieroglyphics.
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
Comparing a simple neural network in Rust and Python
Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to develop....
In the original Unix tradition, command-line options are single letters preceded by a single hyphen…The original Unix style evolved on slow ASR-33 teletypes that made terseness a virtue; thus the single-letter options.
I’ve started nine firms and I’m, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding. The firms we started in recessions had an easier time…
I was going to focus this week on the first task of the 20th Weekly Challenge ...but what can I say? The task was a break a string specified on the command-line into runs of identical characters:
We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
Most videogame stories are power fantasies. You spend your time getting ever stronger, ever tougher, ever more formidable as you accumulate experience points, gold, and equipment. Obstacles aren’t things to go around; they’re things you go through. If you can’t get past any given monster, the solution is to go kill…
Elixir-learning article: Effortless Elixir releases and deployment (tagged: Deployment, Releases, Phoenix, Render)
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
A Rust library for easy and understandable async programming
Last year I got certified as an EMT. As part of the training I shadowed an ambulance for a day and assisted with each run. For each patient we treated, we had to fill out a patient care report. A patient care report. (source) EMTs are just one part in a long chain. If they transport a patient to a hospital, the…
I recently got an e-mail saying I had violated Twitter’s rules for hateful conduct. I immediately thought my account password had been compromised, o...
”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender.
Cool, but obscure X11 tools.
My mom fainted the first time she set foot in an American supermarket. It was 1981 and we were freshly arrived in America, and some combination of the culture shock and smell and sensory overload of a Safeway was too much for her, not normally a fainting woman.
Are dependent types the future of software development? Read more about our work on Dependent Haskell in this blog post.
“When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle…a new man-machine partnership…a new generation of…
Company updates and technology articles from Scale AI.
(with Abhik Roychoydhury and Aditya Kanade) Why do some people get all their papers accepted, and others do not? You may already know th...
