Python is not a great programming language

Python Is Not A Great Programming Language. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 4 years ago

I know my wife is safe and I have “bad” tech companies to thank for that

The company you hate one day is the same one that gives you piece of mind the next day. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

How to find expensive locks in multithreaded application

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@easyperf.net | 4 years ago

Why I'm Using Surge and Not GitHub Pages

Everyone's making a static site these days, and most use GitHub Pages to get up and running fast. Here's why Surge is also worth a look 👀 | Continue reading


@dev.to | 4 years ago

Disk Prices – Comparison of All Hard Drives and SSDs on Amazon

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@diskprices.com | 4 years ago

ReadKit – Have all your reading in one place

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@readkitapp.com | 4 years ago

Accessing tab-completion programmatically in Bash

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@brbsix.github.io | 4 years ago

Best Ways Older Workers Can Prepare for a Recession

Advice for older workers to help avoid being part of the long-term unemployed | Continue reading


@nextavenue.org | 4 years ago

Build a simple chat app with Site.js

Chat room Status: OfflineNickname: Message: Send Messages // Shorthand for basic DOM lookup via CSS selectors. const element = document.querySelector.bind(document) // Display a message in the messages list and ensure // that the list always shows the latest messages. functio … | Continue reading


@ar.al | 4 years ago

Is New Urbanism only for leftists?

The movement is not a secret scheme for socialism. | Continue reading


@theamericanconservative.com | 4 years ago

Warren runs ‘fake’ FB ad attacking Zuckerberg over inaction on misinformation

‘They’re deliberately allowing a candidate to intentionally lie to the American people’ | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 4 years ago

‘The Shed’ Review: A Violent Tale of Bullying and Vampires [Sitges 2019]

In our The Shed review from the Sitges Film Festival, we take a look at a new horror movie that is all about bullying. Oh, and vampires. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Biodiversity Crisis

People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Replying to Domain Abuse Mail

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@danrl.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: ProfitHunt – a curated list of profitable online projects

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@profithunt.co | 4 years ago

US IRS Adds Question on Crypto Usage to New Income Tax Form Draft

The U.S. IRS will ask taxpayers whether they received, sold, sent or exchanged any financial interest in cryptocurrencies in 2019. | Continue reading


@cointelegraph.com | 4 years ago

A Quantum Mechanics Framework for C++

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@second-quantization.com | 4 years ago

'The Era of Imaging Resource is Coming to an End'

Shades of Rob Galbraith and DPI. Dave Etchells, the founder, publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of Imaging Resource—for the last two decades one of the largest and most conscientious of the traditional written-word photographic equipment testing and news websites—said yesterday in a. … | Continue reading


@theonlinephotographer.typepad.com | 4 years ago

AACS Encryption Key Controversy

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

A Photo's Hidden 'Exif' Data Exposes Your Personal Information

A photo's embedded Exif data can give away location information and other personal details. CR tells you how social media and photo-storage sites handle the data, and what you can do about it. | Continue reading


@consumerreports.org | 4 years ago

In Macri's “democratic” Argentina tweets can get you arrested. (Spanish)

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Computers Don't Argue

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@atariarchives.org | 4 years ago

Chinese app on Xi's ideology allows data access to 100M users' phones

BEIJING - The Chinese Communist Party appears to have "superuser" access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to a back door in a propaganda app that the government has been promoting aggressively this year. An examination of the code in the app shows it en … | Continue reading


@greenwichtime.com | 4 years ago

Setup White-Label Name Servers Using AWS Route 53

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@attacomsian.com | 4 years ago

Axonal transport: driving synaptic function

Neurons are remarkably polarized in that proteins made in the cytosol often need to travel many tens or hundreds of cell body lengths along axons to their sites of action in the synapse. Axonal transport of these components is driven by molecular motors along axonal microtubules. … | Continue reading


@science.sciencemag.org | 4 years ago

The promise of phase-change materials

The emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and their rapid proliferation across a myriad of industries provide a driving force for improving computing, data storage, and telecommunication hardware architectures. The current generation and use of huge … | Continue reading


@science.sciencemag.org | 4 years ago

History threatened as Turkey prepares to flood ancient city

Residents of Hasankeyf are apprehensive as the deadline to evacuate their 12,000-year-old village looms. | Continue reading


@aljazeera.com | 4 years ago

U Visa

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Apple's new Catalina operating system won't run old versions of Word

Slate’s Use of Your Data | Continue reading


@slate.com | 4 years ago

Verify Sign in with Apple JWT Tokens Server-Side

Code required to verify Sign in with app-made Apple JWT tokens server-side in Python - jwt-apple-signin.py | Continue reading


@gist.github.com | 4 years ago

Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking

Customers need the right mental model to understand why they need your product. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

Undefined Gooselet

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@kay-is.github.io | 4 years ago

Sawhorse Revolution – A carpentry program for high school youth

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@sawhorserevolution.org | 4 years ago

Theme Park Bits: New Disneyland FastPass, Cedar Fair Deal Isn’t Happening, and More

In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disneyland is testing a new FastPass option. Take a look at a redesigned Disney Cruise Line ship. Cedar Point and Six Flags won’t merge…for now. And more! You may recall that in our last Theme Park Bits column, I mentioned how there was a possi … | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

GNU Binutils 2.33.1 Released

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@sourceware.org | 4 years ago

An Approachable Guide for Finding a New Largest Known Prime [pdf]

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@isthe.com | 4 years ago

Torsional refrigeration by twisted, coiled, and supercoiled fibers

Rubber bands that are stretched and held in an extended shape for a while will extract heat from their surroundings as they are allowed to relax, owing to a reversal of stress-induced crystallization, which is an exothermic process. Wang et al. examine the potential for solid-sta … | Continue reading


@science.sciencemag.org | 4 years ago

Programmable Inhibition and Detection of RNA Viruses Using Crispr Cas13

The CRISPR effector Cas13 could be an effective antiviral for single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses because it programmably cleaves RNAs complementary t… | Continue reading


@sciencedirect.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Eisenhower method to prioritize tasks (web app)

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@painlesstracker.com | 4 years ago

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


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

We designed t-shirts in Oculus Quest

It's inktober! We designed three new 3D ink t-shirts in VR and made a poster variant in black and white. Last week we released three long-sleeved colorful pixelart shirts. This time we made three simpler shirt designs in black and white with a grey option. These shirt designs shi … | Continue reading


@morgondag.io | 4 years ago

The Bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women

by Worst-Online-Dater | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

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@wwltv.com | 4 years ago

Good luck backdooring encryption without banning GitHub

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@abe-winter.github.io | 4 years ago

Richard Stallman defies push by 27 GNU Project developers to end his leadership

"27 GNU project maintainers and developers have signed on to a joint statement asking for Richard Stallman to be removed from his leadership role at GNU," writes Slashdot reader twocows. The statement argues that "Stallman's behavior over the years has undermined a core value of … | Continue reading


@news.slashdot.org | 4 years ago

Agency eyes big revamp of Wall Street whistleblower program

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal agency is moving with little fanfare to revamp one of the most successful whistleblower programs in the government, alarming advocates who warn the changes will set... | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 4 years ago

California power shutdowns raise air pollution worries

Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Bullshit.js

Bullshit.js is a mission-critical enterprise JavaScript bookmarklet that will empower you to evaluate the high impact of market-driven text on any page. | Continue reading


@mourner.github.io | 4 years ago