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What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam
It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but I've seen a recent influx in outright scams. Let me step you through a couple of examples. A typical click-bait headline…
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Logical fallacies in software engineering
How our mind falls short trying to short cut.
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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
I've released my new iOS app, Vignette.
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Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
It’s hard to set your emotions aside when you’re faced with a difficult decision. This is problematic, since our emotions often cause us to make the wrong decision in important areas of life, including in our relationships, our finances, and our health.
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SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine
SpaceX's new raptor engine is a methane fueled full flow staged combustion cycle engine and its so hard to develop, no engine like this has ever flown before!Now this topic can be really intimidating so in order to bring the Raptor engine into context, we’re going to do an overview of a few common types of rocket…
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Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (1947)
These remarks from “THE GENERAL AND LOGICAL THEORY OF AUTOMATA” 1947 are enormously insightful – no surprise. Von Neumann essentially predicts the emergence of the field of analysis of algorithms and algorithmic complexity. Not only does he point out the importance of understanding how many steps it will take to carry…
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I don't want to be a full-fullstack developer
In the current year web developers are regarded as Jacks of all trades, they gotta do everything from manual testing to frontend ninjutsu, but is it worth it?
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You Don't Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work
My friend Csongor recently published a computer science paper that’s super interesting if you’re as big a nerd as I am. The details are too much to go into here, but suffice to say, it lets us do a lot of things I’d always been told were impossible.
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Problems with DSLs for non-programmers
DSLs are suggested to be an aid for the users that want to extend the programs they work with easily, but do they work?
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Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)
Administrivia This article was initially posted on Wikipedia in 2008, which explains why it's written at the 3rd person and looks familiar...
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Details about MIDI 2.0
This article is for companies looking to develop MIDI 2.0 products, both software developers and hardware manufacturers. If you are a MIDI user looking for the benefits of MIDI 2.0, [...]
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Static web – back to the roots?
Exploring the shift back to static site generators to sanitize web development practices
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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage…
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What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?
More or less anyone using modern PCs has to wonder: Why does Windows use backslash as a path separator when the rest of the world uses forward slash? The clear intermediate answer is “because DOS and OS/2 used backslash”. Both Windows 9x and NT were directly or indirectly derived from DOS and OS/2, and certainly…
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Grafana v6.2
Improve operational efficiency, monitor your infrastructure, and analyze metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana, the leading open source tool for dashboards and visualizations.
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Combining finances
A guide to shared finances after marriage
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Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week
3 Years ago, my wife and I were starting Grad School, and we needed to save $30,000 a year. I remember in college I’d ask:
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Smartphones Are Toys First, Tools Second
If you time-traveled to the 1960s, or even the 1980s, and tried to describe smartphones to the people you met, they wouldn’t believe you.
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Back to Basics (2001)
We spend a lot of time on this site talking about exciting Big Picture Stuff like .NET versus Java, XML strategy, Lock-In, competitive strategy, software design, architecture, and so forth. All thi…
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The geometry of an electron determined for the first time
Physicists at the University of Basel are able to show for the first time how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. A newly developed method enables them to show the probability of an electron being present in a space. This allows improved control of electron spins, which could serve as the smallest…