Planet Money: When Reagan Broke the Unions

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@choice.npr.org | 4 years ago

Data Science Helps Business: IT Company Experience

Retailers, banks, and many other companies collect and analyze information, realizing that data runs business. For business development… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

A Tiny Python Exception Oddity

Today, while working on Friendly-traceback ( improved documentation !) as I have been doing a lot recently, I came into an odd SyntaxError ... | Continue reading


@aroberge.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

WTF is Grammar?

Thomas Blaikie at Literary Review: What is the language of the internet? Most of us have probably heard of LOL (or lol), omg, emojis and even memes, and come face to face with unconventional confections of exclamation marks, repeated letters and novelty punctuation. For people li … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

This is my new favorite (free) programming tool – GitHub Actions Tutorial

Free developer conferences for everyone | Continue reading


@bytesized.xyz | 4 years ago

Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes

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@quantamagazine.org | 4 years ago

CERN to switch to Kopano mail server for its 40k users

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@joinup.ec.europa.eu | 4 years ago

Kubernetes Security Tools Abound

Enterprise IT pros add Kubernetes security tools that operate at the orchestration, cluster or network layer, with centralized security management beyond individual containers and workloads, as production Kubernetes deployments mature. | Continue reading


@searchitoperations.techtarget.com | 4 years ago

Peppermint 10 ‘Respin’ Released with Updated Theme and New Utilities

Peppermint 10 Respin is now available to download. This update to the lightweight Linux distro is based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and includes Linux kernel 5.0. | Continue reading


@omgubuntu.co.uk | 4 years ago

CB2 Boosts Revenue per Visit 21% with AR

This is the latest in AR Insider’s Campaign Tracker series. Running semi-weekly, it examines marketing campaigns that utilize AR visualization such as product try-ons, and… Continue reading → Campaign Tracker: CB2 Boosts Revenue Per Visit 21% with AR | Continue reading


@arinsider.co | 4 years ago

Write Verbose Commit Messages

Over the years I've become more and more verbose in commit messages. For example, here's a recent commit message for something I'm working ... | Continue reading


@blog.jgc.org | 4 years ago

Network Physics

Would a baby deprived of all senses develop math independently of any experience? Maybe. Through competition between feedback loops within its neural network, it might spontaneously develop some so… | Continue reading


@kirstenhacker.wordpress.com | 4 years ago

QuestDB adds Influx Line Protocol to ingest time-series data, (much) faster

Our background is in low-latency trading. We are obsessed with performance and have always wanted to build the fastest tech out there. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

The Best Scores of the Decade

A critic looks at the best film scores of the 2010s. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

Cats

It's London's Got Talent for the feline set. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Announcing Rust 1.40.0

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. | Continue reading


@blog.rust-lang.org | 4 years ago

‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: Dickens’ Holiday Classic Becomes a Dark, Nightmarish Horror Movie

The new take on A Christmas Carol turns Charles Dickens' classic into a full-blown horror movie, and that's not a bad thing. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Ozone hole recovery will probably be delayed by banned gas from China

The recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica looks likely to be delayed at least two years by the illegal production of an ozone-destroying gas in China | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Fossil trees reveal world's oldest forest grew on New York mountains

Fossilised tree roots found in a New York quarry are 386 million years old, making them the remains of the oldest known forest yet | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Scientists uncover world's oldest forest

Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

As our oceans become more acidic they may corrode the skins of sharks

Ocean acidification caused by climate change could corrode parts of sharks’ skin, which may impair their swimming | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Acidified oceans may corrode shark scales

Prolonged exposure to high carbon dioxide (acidified) seawater may corrode tooth-like scales (denticles) covering the skin of puffadder shysharks, a study in Scientific Reports suggests. As ocean CO2 concentrations increase due to human activity, oceans are becoming more acidic, … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Finding your way in the dark depends on your internal clock

How mammals perceive light changes between night and day. Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki discovered that mice were better at finding a dim light in pitch-darkness in experiments done at night compared to those conducted during the day. The scientis … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Dear Harry Styles: Pants WHAT?

Somewhere, a Tennessee Williams play has a half-naked character stomping around. [Photo: Getty] | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

Ocean Acidification Could Eat Away at Sharks' Teeth and Scales

The fishes’ ability to swim and feed could be compromised | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

The Feds Get Permission to Seize Edward Snowden's Book Profits

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the U.S. government has the authority to seize the proceeds of Edward | Continue reading


@reason.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

Artificial 'inclusion bodies' created for controlled drug release

Precision medicine is becoming increasingly important, creating more efficient personalised therapies for each patient and innovative pharmacological developments. In the oncology field, for example, researchers are developing different approaches aimed at directed and controlled … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Danish Design vs. Swedish Design of Bicyclist Resting Points at Stoplights

Which do you prefer, and/or how would you have designed it differently? | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Google gives Nest Hubs to 6,000 military families

Fantastic—love this:Google is giving USO families 6,000 Nest Hubs, which double as digital photo frames that can display photos of loved ones.[YouTube] | Continue reading


@jnack.com | 4 years ago

Ohio gas well blowout leaked more than many countries do in a year

Data from new satellite shows the accident should have gotten more attention. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 4 years ago

Dockerizing Ruby on Rails

Did you dockerize your Ruby on Rails application already? You definitely should! It simplifies deploying your application a lot. Learn how to create a Dockerfile to build a Docker image for your appli | Continue reading


@cloudonaut.io | 4 years ago

Firefox Contained in Flatpak vs. Snap Comparison

A comparison of features, security, performance, and limitations of Firefox browser running in isolated sandboxes provided by Flatpak vs. Snap. | Continue reading


@ctrl.blog | 4 years ago

The Myth of Adult Learning

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@notes-txt.com | 4 years ago

Google Is Announcing Project Connected Home over IP

Google is announcing Project Connected Home over IP, a new Working Group alongside industry partners such as Amazon, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance (separate from the existing Zigbee 3.0/PRO protocol). The project aims to build a new standard that enables IP-based communication ac … | Continue reading


@developers.googleblog.com | 4 years ago

Rob Pike on good commit messages

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@groups.google.com | 4 years ago

Journalists become media literacy teachers

"We've been taught not to be the story, or divert from our priorities to inform the public and protect the truth. But if we want to continue to reestablish trust with our audiences and re-enforce our industry, now's the time to teach." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

The year we operationalize community engagement

"That's left us in a position where we're attracting new audiences but we have no way to build an ongoing relationship with them and eventually ask for their support." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

The expanded ambiguity of the news photograph

"This is not to say that news images have no obligation to tell the truth, or no informational value — only that their truthfulness and informational value are necessarily situated and contingent rather than absolute." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

The business we want, not the business we had

"My hope for 2020 is that more and more publishers from around the world will look at the growing number of proofs of the concept that digital journalism can be based on a sustainable digital business model." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

I’m ready for post-news

"One of the things that holds many of us back is that we're beholden to the news more than we're beholden to our communities." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

You don’t need fancy tools to listen

"Sometimes it can be as simple as acknowledging, internalizing, and thoughtfully responding to emails, Facebook messages, and tweets from readers and community members." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

Charitable giving goes collaborative

"Funding this kind of work is also an easier on-ramp for philanthropic organizations to launch their own journalistic giving, as supporting a whole host of groups with one donation can be a more palatable way to join in." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

The work of reconnecting starts November 4

"The aftermath of the election will represent an opportunity for the news media. In this period where the legitimacy of the media (and democracy itself) will be questioned, newsrooms can help the public process what has happened." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

Collaborative journalism takes its rightful place at the table

"Collaboration isn't just a cute idea or a nice distraction anymore. People and organizations of all shapes and sizes are finally starting to take it seriously as one of the best ways forward in an industry that remains racked with uncertainty and mistrust." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms

"Watching Silicon Valley exercise news judgment has been like watching Walter Cronkite try to write code in Python." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

Worst case scenario: thinking the unthinkable

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago