Dev Degree – A Big Bet on Software Education

Reading Time: 10 minutes “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin FranklinWhen I decided to study computer science at university, my parents were skeptical. They didn’t know anyone who had chosen this as a career. Computer science wa … | Continue reading


@engineering.shopify.com | 5 years ago

The Vitamin D Myth

Norma Jean Dougherty, as she then was, working on a drone (really) in 1944. Haven’t got it? Put it this way: she isn’t winding a candle. Now we have some different AirPower to expect. G… | Continue reading


@theoverspill.blog | 5 years ago

Annotate Webpages – Comet

Annotate and share feedback on websites | Continue reading


@chrome.google.com | 5 years ago

Complete working model of the Tokyo subway network

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

'The Burnout Generation': Millennials and the Mindset of 'Working All the Time'

Debt, uncertain work, unrealistic expectations – are millennials turning into the burnout generation? | Continue reading


@wbur.org | 5 years ago

Building a Service-Oriented Architecture with Rails and Kafka

In this post, we'll learn the basics of Kafka and how its event-driven process can be used to power your Rails services. | Continue reading


@blog.heroku.com | 5 years ago

Pied Piper “portable” Z80 antique computer

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@oldcomputers.net | 5 years ago

Apple Spends $150M on Flights with United Every Year

The information was leaked from an internal source. | Continue reading


@thepointsguy.com | 5 years ago

Constitutional democracy and technology in the age of artificial intelligence

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@royalsocietypublishing.org | 5 years ago

Urbit / Primer (2019)

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@urbit.org | 5 years ago

Fresh evaluation of Machine Translation (23 systems, 48 language pairs)

Evaluation of 23 major Cloud Machine Translation Services with Stock (pre-trained) models (Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, DeepL, Google Translate, GTCom Yeecloud, IBM… | Continue reading


@slideshare.net | 5 years ago

Curtis Yarvin leaves Tlon (the startup making Urbit)

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@urbit.org | 5 years ago

Alice in the Land of Mathematics: 150 Years Later(2015)

Alice in Wonderland is one of the most famous works of children's literature. Find out who was actually his atuor, Lewis Carroll. | Continue reading


@bbvaopenmind.com | 5 years ago

Exposure value

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Populating an oncall rotation

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@rachelbythebay.com | 5 years ago

Your phone could reveal your radiation exposure after a nuclear disaster

Examining personal electronics may help gauge people’s radiation exposure in the event of a nuclear accident or attack. | Continue reading


@sciencenews.org | 5 years ago

Life Is Just a Game

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@greshm.org | 5 years ago

Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (slides)

Serverless computing offers the potential to program the cloud in an autoscaling, pay-as-you go manner. In this paper we address critical gaps in first-generation serverless computing, which place its autoscaling potential at odds with dominant trends in modern computing: notably … | Continue reading


@speakerdeck.com | 5 years ago

LittleBits Goes Big: Ayah Bdeir Shares History and Lessons Learned

Ayah Bdeir’s desire for accessible, creative electronics helped bring her maker building blocks into the mainstream | Continue reading


@makezine.com | 5 years ago

2019 Design Trends

Design has gotten so…cold. And sterile. And lifeless. Apps and entire brands have started to feel like hospitals and laboratories. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Xapiand: An Elasticsearch competitor written in modern C++

Search and Storage Engine | Continue reading


@kronuz.io | 5 years ago

Get Ready for the Q1'2019 GitLab Hackathon

The first Hackathon in 2019 for the GitLab community will take place on February 12-13. | Continue reading


@about.gitlab.com | 5 years ago

Everything you need to know about Neural Networks and Backpropagation

Neural Network explanation from the ground including understanding the math behind it | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Testing isn't everything

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@arp242.net | 5 years ago

States where you're rich making less than $100,000

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@msn.com | 5 years ago

POLICE RESPOND TO ACTIVE SHOOTER AT LOGAN TOWNSHIP FACILITY

police officers responded to an active shooter situation at a UPS facility in South Jersey after receiving reports of shots being fire... | Continue reading


@emttime.com | 5 years ago

Katelyn Ohashi Earns Internet Shout Outs with Floor Routine

The Joy of This Gymnast's Floor Routine Is Reverberating Across the Internet. Here's What to Know If youre a gifted athlete vaulting e... | Continue reading


@emttime.com | 5 years ago

Top 5 Foul Moments in Atari Lynx Games

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@atarigamer.com | 5 years ago

Digital Detox

There always but ALWAYS is this damn digital addiction in our pocket or purse. It’s just got to be cut back. I’m speaking for myself of course but my guess is I’m onto a problem t… | Continue reading


@frogpondjournal.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: Feedback Land – general purpose feedback gathering

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@feedback.land | 5 years ago

Journalism and Newspack

WordPress.com is partnering with Google and news industry leaders on a new platform for small- and medium-sized publishers, called Newspack. The team has raised $2.4 million in first-year funding f… | Continue reading


@ma.tt | 5 years ago

Thomas Dolby, Popstar and VR Music Innovator, Joins High Fidelity Board

Smart hire by High Fidelity: He scored our Halloween “Zombie Island” events in real-time and headlined High Fidelity’s first virtual reality festival, FUTVRE LANDS, in what, to our knowledge, is the largest live concert ever staged entirely in VR. Today,... | Continue reading


@nwn.blogs.com | 5 years ago

Reverse Engineering GoDaddy's Tracking Code

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@lolware.net | 5 years ago

DiscoverDev - curated engineering articles for Tue, 15 Jan 2019

The list of curated resources and software engineering blog posts for 2019-01-15 | Continue reading


@discoverdev.io | 5 years ago

Stewarding our common ground

Josie Warden ponders stewarship - the job of taking care of something - as she cycles East and West Sussex for the Food Farming and Countryside Commission | Continue reading


@thersa.org | 5 years ago

Being a Great Engineering Mentor

Here are some thoughts how I think about being a great engineering mentor. To me the most important thing is remembering “who to be”, and not as much as “how to act”. You won’t remember how to act. You can look up all the listicles you want on tips on what to do as a mentor, but … | Continue reading


@xkyle.com | 5 years ago

Game Isn’t Worth the Candle: Reflections on the JPM Healthcare Conference

Another year, another JPM week. With a weekend to recuperate and reflect, I come away more concerned than ever about JPM and our industry. For context, by JPM I don’t mean the actual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference at the Westin | Continue reading


@lifescivc.com | 5 years ago

Slow but Inevitable Shift to Cloudy Infrastructure

Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at | Continue reading


@nextplatform.com | 5 years ago

Getting Started with Salesforce DX Part I

Salesforce DX is the new development environment that will eventually replace the Salesforce EDI that’s based on Eclipse. Recently… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Mini-Mainframe at Home: Installing a Modern OS

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@cpushack.com | 5 years ago

Salesforce launches Einstein Visual Search for retailer product discovery

This capability is one of several enhancements announced Monday that lets marketers provide more intelligent product choices. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

Spartacus (1960 film)

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Gartner: What the post-disruptive marketing landscape will look like

The research firm predicts the fall of CX as top priority, the advantages of user-controlled data, the automated generation of content at scale and a cutback in marketing analytics. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 5 years ago

African American Resources from US Gov/CMS Partners :-(

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@cms.gov | 5 years ago

(2015) “TIFU by using Math.random()”

By Betable CTO, Mike Malone | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Logical Reasoning: Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning

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@psyarxiv.com | 5 years ago

Downside of Mindless Investing

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@acting-man.com | 5 years ago

Does Organic Agriculture Contribute to Climate Change?

Organic agriculture seems like it would be better for the environment than conventional. But a new study suggests it produces more carbon dioxide. | Continue reading


@daily.jstor.org | 5 years ago