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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed...
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Test results for Knights Landing
The Knights Landing is Intel's new "Many Integrated Core" processor. It has 64-72 cores that can run four threads each. It is built with a 14 nm process and runs at a clock frequency of 1.3-1.5 GHz. It...
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Strymonas – A library for OCaml and Scala for fast, bulk, in-memory processing
strymonas is a streaming library design for OCaml and Scala that offers support for fast, bulk, in-memory processing. It is developed using the state of the art facilities of Multi-Stage Programming...
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Which Language Uses the Most Sounds?
PhotoSpeakers of Khoisan languages, like the San people in Namibia, use click consonants, packing a lot of information into brief words.Credit Eric Lafforgue/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images With five...
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Zapcc – A faster C++ compiler
I just joined the private beta program of zapcc. Zapcc is a c++ compiler, based on clang which aims at being much faster than other C++ compilers. How they are doing this is using a caching server that...
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A Simple Explanation of How Shares Move Around the Securities Settlement System
I explained here how money moves around the banking system and how the Bitcoin system causes us to revisit our assumptions about what a payment system must look like. In this post, I turn my attention...
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Typed, modular macros for OCaml
Bringing typed, modular macros to OCamlLast updated: 25 Nov 2016As part of my OCaml Labs research project, I implemented a new macro system for OCaml, based on a design by Leo White and Jeremy Yallop...
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The Need to Read
Nov. 25, 2016 9:11 a.m. ETWe all ask each other a lot of questions. But we should all ask one question a lot more often: “What are you reading?”It’s a simple question but a powerful one, and it can...
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How a Pillar of German Banking Lost Its Way
October 28, 2016 11:02 AMGreed, provincialism, cowardice, unfocused aggression, mania, egoism, immaturity, mendacity, incompetence, weakness, pride, blundering, decadence, arrogance, a need for...
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The New Haxe Target: HashLink in depth, part 1
This is first post of a series of articles covering the new HashLink target for HaxeHashLink is a new Haxe target that was announced a few weeks ago which I have worked on for the past year and thought...
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On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats (2015)
Once upon a time, it was possible to view the Internet as a generally benevolent place as far as your traffic was concerned. Both passive eavesdroppers and man in the middle attacks were uncommon and...
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An expert’s view on unusually warm Arctic temperatures
This year has seen some exceptionally low extents of Arctic sea ice as well as periods of much higher than usual temperatures in the region.Ed Blockley manages the Met Office Polar Climate group, whose...
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Interactive Numerical Optimization Tutorial
Numerical Optimization is one of the central techniques in Machine Learning. For many problems it is hard to figure out the best solution directly, but it is relatively easy to set up a loss function...
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Abusing Protocols to Load Local Files, Bypass the HTML5 Sandbox, Open Popups
On October 25th, the fellows @MSEdgeDev twitted a link that called my attention because when I clicked on it (being on Chrome) the Windows Store App opened. It might not surprise you, but it surprised...
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Let Postgres Do the Work (2013)
You are developing an application that serves up social content, perhaps it is a clone of Instragram. The application’s users can view posts by others and then like and comment on their favorites,...
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Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets
Thomson ReutersDemand is drying up in the priciest markets.On the surface, rents, when averaged out across the US, still rose in October, though way slower than during the landlord’s golden days, with...
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I made an iPhone game with PhoneGap and won't do it again
I recently released my first ever iPhone app: a game called Super Flipside. This is a re-imagining of an earlier game I created way back in 2010. I had always imagined it would work really well on...
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Firefly's Shepherd, Ron Glass, Dies at 71
Ron Glass, known for playing Shepherd Book on the acclaimed Joss Whedon show Firefly and its follow-up film Serenity, has passed away at the age of 71. No other details have been released at this...
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