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'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm
Aboard the fishing vessel Marathon, Nicholas Cooke (left) and Nathan Cultee unload 16 farm-raised Atlantic salmon into a container on Tuesday in Bellingham, Wash. Megan Farmer /KUOWhide captiontoggle...
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Weird Python Integers
Note: all of this code was run on my machine using Python 3.6.1. Not everything will work the same if you test using Python...
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Go 1.9 is released
Go 1.9 is released24 August 2017 Today the Go team is happy to announce the release of Go 1.9. You can get it from the download page. There are many changes to the language, standard library, runtime,...
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Build Uber-for-X within a day using HyperTrack
Uber’s business model has given rise to a large number of Uber-for-X services. Among other things, X equals moving, parking, courier, groceries, flowers, alcohol, dog walking, massages, dry cleaning,...
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Practicing Elixir or any programming language
Image generated on Instacode - algorithmIn this article I’ll show how I’m learning/practicing Elixir, but the steps showed here aim to be valid for any new language one want to learn/practice.The steps...
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I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids
By Melinda GatesBy Melinda GatesAugust 24 at 7:00 AMWhen my youngest child was born in 2002, the flip phone was still the coolest piece of tech you could get. Now I’m told that all three of my children...
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pybind11: Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
README.mdpybind11 is a lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code. Its goals and syntax are similar to the...
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“Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
This is home-brew, not Harvard. And it has worked. Spectacularly. The Oakleys never could have predicted their success. Many of the early sessions had to be trashed. “I looked like a deer in the...
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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
One of the casualties, Dev Bootcamp, was a pioneer. It started in San Francisco in 2012 and grew to six schools with more than 3,000 graduates. Only three years ago, Kaplan, the biggest supplier of...
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How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014)
Note: This is the first post of a 4-part series. Afterwards, read part 2, part 3, and part 4.The Automatic Clearing House (ACH) network is the primary way money moves electronically through the banking...
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Need a karma point
Atikk (Nino) · GitHub 65 contributions in the last yearSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSunMonTueWedThuFriSat Contribution activity August2017 Created 57 commits in 3 repositories You can't perform...
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Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life
Apple messed with a cardinal rule of industrial design when it made the iPhone 6. The glassy screen, 5.5 inches on the diagonal, was too large for people with small hands to reach the top. To...
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How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)
How to write your own compiler Silvano Rivoira, Politecnico di Torino, 2009 Table of Contents 1. Introduction2. Source language3. Lexical analysis4. Parsing5. Error...
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HTC looks at option to sell or demerge Vive
HTC Corp., the beleaguered manufacturer that once ranked among the world’s top smartphone makers, is exploring options that could range from separating its virtual-reality business to a full sale of...
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Rules for new FPGA designers
It’s a new school year!For all you new students out there, please accept my welcome to the wonderful world of digital design. I am neither a student nor a professor, and yet I have helped many students...
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“For many people, flexibility at work can be a liberation.”
In his forthcoming major independent review of employment practices in the UK, Matthew Taylor will aim to stimulate and influence public and government discourse in preparation for Britain’s complex...
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Converting a Guitar Effects Pedal to Output MIDI
August 25, 2017Lately, I’ve been messing around with recording music. I played guitar occasionally when I was younger, and recently started again in order to create a soundtrack for some videos I...
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An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry
Daniel Mansfield holds the 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet that he and colleagues used to make their case. UNSW/Andrew Kelly By Ron CowenAug. 24, 2017 , 2:00 PMTrigonometry, the study of the lengths...
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Is There Any Point to Protesting?
That winter of 2003—you remember it, and so do I—the world assembled, arms linked, to protest the prospect of war in Iraq. What times those were, and how the passions swelled. The fervor of the public...
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