2161
Parallelism in one line
A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks
2162
Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients
Haskell vs. Erlang Since I wrote a bittorrent client in both Erlang and Haskell, etorrent and combinatorrent respectively, I decided to put ...
2163
Rvest: Easy web scraping with R
Introducing rvest: scrape web data with CSS selectors or XPath, extract text/tables, and navigate sites with sessions.
2164
Lorem Ipsum: Of Good and Evil, Google and China
Imagine discovering a secret language spoken only online by a knowledgeable and learned few. Over a period of weeks, as you begin to tease out the meaning of this curious tongue and ponder its purpose, the language appears to shift in subtle but fantastic ways, remaking itself daily before your eyes. And just when you…
2165
How the Z80's registers are implemented
The 8-bit Z80 microprocessor is famed for use in many early personal computers such the Osborne 1, TRS-80, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The Z80...
2166
Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor
As we have written in an earlier blog post, we have been working with the OpenStreetMap iD editor developers to integrate Mapillary as a source for editing OpenStreetMap.
2167
The Animated Guide to Emacs Paredit
Dan's blog
2168
HFT in my backyard – III
INTRO Last Friday evening, I received a tip via telephone, “You should go to the Houtem tower tomorrow morning. Jump may work on the network.” Unfortunately I couldn’t make it back to Houtem. But i…
2169
How to be a Bayesian in Python
See also Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Python-driven Primer , a peer-reviewed article partially based on this content.
2170
What women in technology really think (150 of them at least)
What women in technology really think (150 of them, at least)
2171
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
Please note: I've updated this review in several spots and have highlighted these updates like this . Please also check out the comments-se...
2172
My Amazon interview experience
It all started back when I was still working at SAP . A few colleagues mentioned Amazon was opening up another office in Yaletown . I believe it was in January 2013 or so. I wasn’t very interested at first, but after hearing about it a couple times, I gave it some more thought and decided it wouldn’t hurt. I was going…
2173
Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?
Collection of Peter Thiel's evidence that we're economically stagnating and no longer living in a technologically-accelerating civilization.
2174
Haskell, Monads and Purity
I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …
2175
A Question
I have a question for all the people that use their iPhone or Android to complain on Twitter, Facebook, or reddit about the lack of innovation… Or message their friends on WhatsApp or Snapchat...
2176
2177
Designing and building a keyboard
Some years ago, I wanted to make a Nixie Tube clock from scratch. PCB manufacture was so expensive that I ended up just making the PCBs by hand. I figured I would give the market another look, and dang has custom PCB manufacture become cheap! The best/easiest service that I found was OSH Park. I'd never had PCBs made…
2178
RethinkDB 1.15: Geospatial queries
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.15 ( Lawrence of Arabia ). Download it now!
2179
2180
2181
How Not to Write a Signal Handler
This website is for sale! 741mhz.com is your first and best source for information about 741mhz. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
2182
Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
2183
2184
Publish and Perish at Imperial College London: The Death of Stefan Grimm
Jump to follow-up This week’s Times Higher Education carried a report of the death, at age 51, of Professor Stefan Grimm: Imperial College London to ‘review procedures’ after death of academi…
2185
2186
Cantonese Proverbs in One Picture
The Great Canton and Hong Kong Proverbs” : illustrations of 83 Cantonese proverbs in one picture
2187
Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
2188
Finding Compiler Bugs by Removing Dead Code
What has caused you to slack off on the bug reporting? The cost of computer time or the human effort side? (I’m guessing the second.)
2189
Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
2190
JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013
A monkey. That’s the default name a part in the JavaScript Engine of Mozilla Firefox gets. Even the full engine has its own monkey name, ...