Democrats, stop being so fair to El Orange the Dictator in Chief. | Continue reading
President Trump took historic steps into North Korean territory alongside Kim Jong Un and later announced talks are back on. | Continue reading
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The INSTEX system is intended to allow companies based in the European Union to continue to engage in business with Iran without running afoul of sanctions imposed by the U.S. | Continue reading
I think you’ll enjoy this:AdAge writes,The team shot outdoor scenes in Kiev, Ukraine, before recreating the entire town on a set inside the country’s largest airplane hangar. The “ground,” however, was built six feet off the floor, to allow space for trampolines built into the si … | Continue reading
liveBooks are enhanced books. They add narration, interactive exercises, code execution, and other features to eBooks. | Continue reading
Imagine, a city where the residents and commuters wouldn't need to own cars. | Continue reading
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A blog by Dadepo Aderemi, mostly on software development. | Continue reading
In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. is arguing that repairing its devices could jeopardize the cyber security of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip. Don&… | Continue reading
A self-declared "caravan" of Americans bused across the Canada-U.S. bo... | Continue reading
June is nearly over and, with it, Pride Month. On June 1, a church in nearby Concord, Massachusetts added a Pride flag of equal size to their permanent Black Lives Matter flag (parishioners are so … | Continue reading
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a tho … | Continue reading
Come visit some very unusual sedimentary rocks on Seattle's Richmond Beach | Continue reading
Researchers have developed a new material that speeds up evaporation, enabling solar stills to provide the water requirements of a family. | Continue reading
This is the 8th post in the Exercises in Programming Style focus series. Last week's post was dedicated to OOP. Despite popular belief, the exercise was solved using neither accessors i.e. getters and setters, nor shared mutable state. The solution's implementation was based on t … | Continue reading
Machine learning, especially deep learning, is forcing a re-evaluation of how chips and systems are designed that will change the direction of the industry for decades to come. | Continue reading
All revolutionary movements seek to sanctify their lawless behaviour as a spontaneous eruption of righteous fury. In some cases, such as the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine, this conceit is justified. But usually their violence is a pre-meditated tactic to intimidate adversaries. … | Continue reading
Daniel W. Drezner in the New York Times: A diverting Beltway pastime during the heyday of the Washington Consensus was to gently mock Joseph E. Stiglitz. It was remarkably easy for pundits to wave away his prestigious awards (Nobel Prize in Economics) and positions (World Bank ch … | Continue reading
Facebook Inc will face unprecedented regulatory scrutiny over a new digital curr... | Continue reading
In this article, we provide a summary of recent efforts towards achievingInternet geolocation securely, \ie without allowing the entity being geolocatedto cheat about its own geographic... | Continue reading
Claire Armitstead in The Guardian: When Guy Gunaratne was a teenager he would catch the bus home from school in north-west London, listening out for the chat of his fellow passengers. “Like this one kid who said to his friend, ‘Come on, you’re moving like molasses.’ That rattled … | Continue reading
Transactions! If you know how to cook them they can be a real life saver when it comes to dealing with inconsistent data. But... There... | Continue reading
Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, and Patrick Bigger in The Conversation: The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything … | Continue reading
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perp… | Continue reading
Before studies showed that cigarettes caused cancer, tobacco companies recruited the medical community for their ads. | Continue reading
Emma Brockes in The Guardian: There is something very moving about the conversation between these young women, a sense of generational rise that, as we know from every precedent from the Renaissance onwards, has the power to ignite movements and change history. Alexandria Ocasio- … | Continue reading
Foreign companies are not restricted from participating in Argentina’s IT industry. Argentina is stepping up as a country of web developers for business. | Continue reading
IP headers include a 16-bit ID field. Our work examines the generation ofthis field in Windows (versions 8 and higher), Linux and Android, and showsthat the IP ID field enables remote servers to... | Continue reading
If the "mirrorverse" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it. | Continue reading
While a big part of writing testable code comes down to how our dependencies are managed, how we structure and manage our testing data is often equally important. This week, let’s take a look at a few different techniques that can enable us to define such data more easily — and h … | Continue reading
Cinnamon 4.2.0 is the latest update to the Linux Mint desktop, but users shouldn't get too excited by the pending upgrade as it's a bug fix release. | Continue reading
Not a week goes by when I don't get a request to post an article on this site. You'll notice that I never do so. Not because I'm an asshole, but because it's too time consuming for me to vet who folks are, what they're selling, and so forth. You'll also notice that I do occasiona … | Continue reading
An American Library Association resolution points to Dewey's history of discriminatory and predatory behavior | Continue reading