The real Casanova
Everyone thinks that they know about Casanova, the legendary lover who proceeded from one romantic conquest to another, but almost no one really does. They believe that he was handsome, distinguished...
View ArticleGraph Data Structure Interview Questions
A graph is an ordered pair G = (V, E) comprising a set V of vertices or nodes and a collection of pairs of vertices from V called edges of the graph. For example for above graph,V = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,...
View ArticleStudy: Kids whose parents hold them back from school a year have advantages
We all want to succeed in life, and when we become parents, we want to do everything we can to make sure our kids are successful, too. Now a new study says there's a single decision many parents make...
View ArticleThe end of smartphone innovation
This autumn Apple will release a new iPhone design, and the fact that it postponed a new design and kept the 6 design for three years instead of two suggests it has something that will attract...
View ArticleStrengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox
In a recent post, we outlined the layered strategy that the Microsoft Edge security team employs to protect you from vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise your device or personal data. In...
View ArticleWriting a Linux Debugger Part 2: Breakpoints
In the first part of this series we wrote a small process launcher as a base for our debugger. In this post we’ll learn how breakpoints work in x86 Linux and augment our tool with the ability to set...
View ArticleSan Jose and Oakland area job markets tumble
Santa Clara County and the East Bay suffered their worst two-month stretch of job losses since the Great Recession during January and February, state jobs data showed Friday, raising questions about...
View ArticleTunnel TCP Through WebSockets (CLI Tool)
readme.mdTunnel TCP through WebSockets. Access anything you want, even from a crappy WiFi which only allows HTTPS.tunneling clientnpm install -g tcp-over-websockets tcp-over-websockets --tunnel...
View ArticleAmazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
On Tuesday, independent tech publisher No Starch Press found out that Amazon was selling counterfeit copies of Python for Kids, one of its popular programming books. A concerned customer alerted Bill...
View ArticleNew insights into mitochondria reveal how life expends energy
Nick Lane is an evolutionary biochemist at University College London who thinks about the big questions of life: how it began, how it is maintained, why we age and die, and why we have sex. Shunning...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
Early beta versions of the taskbar clock did display seconds, and it even blinked the colon like some clocks do. But we had to remove it. Why? Because that blinking colon and the constantly-updating...
View ArticleFinnish the Dishes: Simple Nordic Design Beats Dishwashers and Drying Racks
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View Article8 CSS gotchas to start your morning off right (satire)
In every community there’s a coming-of-age process, a rite of passage that every newcomer must experience before he can really consider himself an insider. For the CSS community, it goes something like...
View ArticleLily-Drone Style Fake Promo Used by Kudrone Crowdfunder
Another IndieGoGo storm has erupted over the $109 ‘Kudrone’, a nano-drone said to incorporate GPS, 4K camera, ‘Follow Me’ and more. But following the release of footage stated to be a ‘sample’, we have...
View ArticleWhy I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket (just yet)
Matthias Felleisen jested "Why are you still using CL when Scrbl/Racket is so much better :-)" ? My response was as follows: Dear Matthias, you are right Racket is so much better in so many...
View ArticleThe Big Dig: Istanbul’s city planners have a problem: too much history (2015)
Byzantine shipwrecks found during the construction of the first-ever tunnel under the Bosporus held up work for years.CreditPhoto Illustration by Raphaël Dallaporta for The New Yorker; Source: Istanbul...
View ArticleApollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia: Remembering NASA’s Lost Astronauts (2016)
Aurich LawsonThe middle of winter is a somber time of year for the spaceflight community. The three worst tragedies of NASA's manned space program fall within just six days on the calendar, from...
View ArticleWolfram blocked publication of a mathematical proof with a court order
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)This...
View ArticleModules vs Microservices
Container (source: Antranias).Register for the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York, April 2-5, to learn more about modules and microservices.Much has been said about moving from...
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