So You Want to Write Your Own CSV code
So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? Fields separated by commas and rows separated by newline. Easy right? You can write the code yourself in just a few lines.
KDE makes Qt
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
You Don't Read Code, You Explore It
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Introducing Tweet-a-Program
Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program. Tweet it to @WolframTaP. Our Twitter bot will run it in the Wolfram Cloud and tweet back the result.
Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police
The Illinois General Assembly just passed a bill that would prevent citizens from recording the police.
Making ActiveRecord 2x faster
TL;DR: AdequateRecord is a set of patches that adds cache stuff to make ActiveRecord 2x faster
EFF Dismayed by House's Gutted USA Freedom Act
EFF and Other Civil Liberties Organizations Call on Congress to Support Uncompromising Reform Since the introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill that has over 140 cosponsors, Congress has been clear about its intent: ending the mass collection of Americans' calling records. Many members of...
The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny
I built an interactive Shiny application that uses simulated annealing to solve the famous traveling salesman problem. You can play around with it to create and solve your own tours at the bottom of …
My Startup, a Retrospective
Two years of OpenCNAM, my Caller ID API startup: the weekend MVP, the Django to Flask rewrite, the cold emails that won customers, and my mistakes.
New RFS: One Million Jobs
We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good…
HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History
Atlassian and Slack have forged a new strategic partnership.
How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?
How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…
Brand engagement is plummeting on Facebook
According to a new report from Simply Measured, the total engagement for the top 10 most-followed brands on Facebook has declined 40 percent year-over-year—even as brands have increased the amount of content they're posting by 20.1 percent.
Songza is Joining Google
With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere else.