It's trap How Double Dispatch can help in avoiding code smells in Java

When and why Double Dispatch is useful, and how to implement it in Java via the Visitor Pattern | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset

By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The Boston Globe requested records from each state. They compiled the many documents into a single dataset: In each record, CA… | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 years ago

Florence Heri-Tech 2020, call for papers extended until 10/1/2020

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@digitalmeetsculture.net | 4 years ago

PreactJS: Differences to React

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@preactjs.com | 4 years ago

Indonesian volcano debris litters seabed after tsunami: study

Huge chunks of an Indonesian volcano litter the seabed after its eruption and subsequent collapse last year sparked a deadly tsunami, according to new research. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Von §219a bis 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht – Ein feministischer Jahresrückblick 2019

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@thisisjanewayne.com | 4 years ago

OpenJDK 11, Tools of the Trade

In my talk about the Security Manager, I demo a hack that takes advantage of the Attach API. The later requires to know about the PID of the JVM one wants to attach to. Because my good friend Evgeny Mandrikov couldn’t attend my talk at a recent conference, I did a quick private d … | Continue reading


@javaadvent.com | 4 years ago

Europe's exoplanet hunter set for blast-off from Earth

Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite was set to leave Earth Wednesday a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Boeing sends first crew capsule to ISS this week

Boeing is all set to launch its Starliner spacecraft for the first time to the International Space Station at the end of this week, a key mission as NASA looks to resume crewed flight by 2020. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Search finds possible graves of Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Scientists surveying a cemetery and a homeless camp in Tulsa, Oklahoma, found pits holding possible remains of black residents killed nearly 100 years ago in a race massacre, investigators have revealed. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Show HN: Is it conchable? Taking turns using a conch

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@conchable.com | 4 years ago

That one time I thought I understood recursion

A short tale about my struggle to comprehend why C# isn't a functional language. | Continue reading


@functional.christmas | 4 years ago

Hardening and Securing WordPress Without Plugins

A comprehensive guide and step-by-step instructions for hardening and securing WordPress without relying on any plugin. | Continue reading


@mekinpesen.com | 4 years ago

Australia has its hottest day on record

Australia this week experienced its hottest day on record and the heatwave is expected to worsen, exacerbating an already unprecedented bushfire season, authorities said Wednesday. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Star fruit could be the new 'star' of Florida agriculture

It's not just oranges that grow in Florida. Carambola, or star fruit as most in the United States call it, is gaining popularity. One researcher from Florida International University is researching how cover crops can help the sustainability of star fruit farms. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The weird world of Iceland's Christmas party food kitchen

This year's hottest new finger food takes minutes to cook, but a year to design | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 4 years ago

'Locally grown' broccoli looks, tastes better to consumers

In blind tests conducted by Cornell University researchers, consumers rated a California broccoli tastier and better-looking than a pair of varieties grown in New York. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

There is no 'I' in team—or is there?

There is no I in Team—as the saying goes. But new research suggests it is important for individuals to feel personal ownership towards a team project in order to be more creative. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Air quality tests need simplifying to help reduce dangerous emissions

New methods of testing and simulating air quality should be considered in order to help policy makers have a more accurate understanding of how emissions affect air pollution levels, new research suggests. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Shifting the balance of growth vs. defense boosts crop yield

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists are figuring out how to pack more kernels onto a corn cob. One way to boost the productivity of a plant, they say, is to redirect some of its resources away from maintaining an overprepared immune system and into enhanced seed produ … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

JavaScript Adaption of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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@sicp.comp.nus.edu.sg | 4 years ago

The Magic of TypeScript

I like TypeScript. I also like Magic the Gathering. What if we combine them; can the magical domain of planeswalkers and spells help us understand the awesome but advanced type system of TypeScript? | Continue reading


@javascript.christmas | 4 years ago

Google denies report it considered quitting cloud computing business

Google denies report it considered quitting cloud computing business - SiliconANGLE | Continue reading


@siliconangle.com | 4 years ago

Il mio bilancio di fine 2019 e progetti per il nuovo anno con l’aiuto dell’agenda Life Planner

Un bilancio dell'anno appena passato e cosa mi aspetto dal futuro: obiettivi, sogni e desideri da raggiungere con l'agenda Life Planner. | Continue reading


@serenapuosi.com | 4 years ago

Getting to one 9 of SQL correctness in Dolt

A few months ago we finally settled on a good way to measure thecorrectnessof Dolt's SQL engine: thesqllogictest package, first developed… | Continue reading


@liquidata.co | 4 years ago

How to test React apps in 2019

Testing your apps is becoming so easy, it's starting to become worth the trouble! | Continue reading


@react.christmas | 4 years ago

600GB Oktoberfest Food and Beer Videos (2019) [pdf]

We release a realistic, diverse, and challenging dataset for object detectionon images. The data was recorded at a beer tent in Germany and consists of 15different categories of food and drink... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: The Saga Ends With a Rushed, Disappointing Finale

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a woeful conclusion to an otherwise wonderful trilogy. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

How the author of “The Great Gatsby” fared in show business. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 4 years ago

Certain Platform for Event Management [Review]

Certain Platform provides automated capabilities for planners and marketers during all stages of the event planning process, including registration, room block management, check-in, and reporting. Here is our review.   Certain Platform: What Is It? Certain Platform is a comprehen … | Continue reading


@eventmanagerblog.com | 4 years ago

You Never Regret Finishing a Trail Run

The joys of finishing a run always beat the suffering of starting one. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 4 years ago

Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia's mobile phones

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@rolandtanglao.com | 4 years ago

Advent Day 18: Baby Jesus doesn't do it for me

An oldie-but-goodie poem of mine today, picking up on a theme that’s been resonating with me for several years now—real spirituality or real religion means radical change and transformation. It means maturity, healed relationships, humility, kindness, compassion, and resistance t … | Continue reading


@inpraiseofleftovers.com | 4 years ago

Email marketers: Keep growing, but also take the time to teach others

Email marketing has a high burnout rate so to advance our industry, we must take more responsibility to educate our successors. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 4 years ago

Rapid Quality Assurance with Requirements Smells (2016)

Bad requirements quality can cause expensive consequences during the softwaredevelopment lifecycle, especially if iterations are long and feedback comeslate. %-- the faster a problem is found,... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Looking Back: WWIII Remembered

This was not supposed to happen. Not in the year 2029. A nuclear war, millions dead, firestorms, irradiated cities. How did we get here? | Continue reading


@thecritic.co.uk | 4 years ago

Industrial Robot Ransomware: Akerbeltz

Cybersecurity lessons have not been learnt from the dawn of othertechnological industries. In robotics, the existing insecurity landscape needsto be addressed immediately. Several manufacturers... | Continue reading


@arxiv.org | 4 years ago

Iole

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Artificial Lawyer Readers’ Predictions for 2020

This year has passed so quickly and so much has happened, but now the question is what will happen next year? What will be the big themes of 2020? What will change? Artificial Lawyer asked a variet… | Continue reading


@artificiallawyer.com | 4 years ago

An Approach to Secret Management

From the simplest design to a more complex Secret Management architecture | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Is this still the case?

“Is this still the case?” is published by Preslav Rachev. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Crypto Trading Redefined with Exchange Software

The move headed for crypto regulations is itself an important indication that crypto-market are here to stay for the long. The digital coins are getting exchanged broadly and the industrialists find it comparatively easier to deal in cryptos such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, R … | Continue reading


@xplace.com | 4 years ago

Migration of a Database from RDS to Aurora

We discuss migration to Amazon Aurora from Amazon RDS (relational database service), part of AWS using a critical Postgres database | Continue reading


@blog.codacy.com | 4 years ago

Useful GitHub Apps for DevOps

Ever since its inception, GitHub has been providing innovative solutions for effective software development. At its core, GitHub helps eliminate process bottlenecks while streamlining collaboration among development teams. However, one challenge that prevalently stands on the way … | Continue reading


@devops.substack.com | 4 years ago

Navigator.sendBeacon is broken (extensive browser stats included)

`sendBeacon` is a built-in browser method to transfer data to the backend |when a web page is closed|. However, after studying over 5 million pageviews we can say that this method is broken and cannot be used in production. | Continue reading


@volument.com | 4 years ago

A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat (2018)

Something weird happens to a skeptical science writer during a week of meditation, chanting and skygazing | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

This Guy Knits ‘Ugly Sweaters’ for Every Place He Goes

"My Baltimore Light Rail sweater." Sam Barsky / Instagram Not all heros wear capes. Sam Barsky, for example, wears sweaters. Nearly 200 of them at this point. The Baltimore, Maryland native has taken the internet by storm recently with his talent for knitting sweaters of, well, … | Continue reading


@messynessychic.com | 4 years ago

The Art of Dying

I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that? | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 4 years ago