Scores Killed in Taliban Attack on School in Pakistan
In one of Pakistan’s bloodiest attacks in recent years, scores of people were killed after Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said, and hundreds of students remained trapped inside.
Hasnain says:
Sometimes you just don't have the words to express your feelings. Or they're just not appropriate for a public forum.
145 kids...
Posted on 2014-12-16T17:38:30+0000
Audience Insights query engine: In-memory integer store for social analytics
A query engine with a hybrid integer store that organizes data in memory and on flash disks so that a query can process terabytes of data in real time.
Hasnain says:
In case anyone was wondering about the sort of things l'll work on - this is a post by the Insights team on Audience Insights and all the glorious technical details behind it.
Posted on 2014-12-12T03:49:42+0000
Bay Area braces for powerful storm
The Bay Area, which last month had seen hardly more than a few sprinkles since spring, was hit with a bout of storms last week that brought upward of 3 inches of rain to most cities and 6 inches to the hills. The National Weather Service has issued a high wind and flash flood advisory for late Wedne…
Hasnain says:
I should perhaps actually stock up on some food just in case (empty Fridge, I'm looking at you)
Posted on 2014-12-10T18:49:26+0000
GoodGame Agency
I was never much of a team sports kid. I grew up in Philadelphia (where it's culturally impossible to not passionately support your local sports teams), but when it came to actually competing, team sports weren't my thing. I was a math, science, and music kind of kid, which meant that aside from alw…
Hasnain says:
Twitch acquires goodgame (owners of EG, Alliance, Tinker).
I did not see this coming
Posted on 2014-12-10T02:06:39+0000
memcpy, memmove, and memset are deprecated! « Modern Maintainable Code
Summary: While they won't produce incorrect results when used appropriately, the mem* family of ...
Intense storm to wallop Bay Area on Wednesday
An intense storm — expected to cause widespread damage and flooding — will slam the Bay Area with heavy rain and high winds midway through the week, forecasters said. Winds in some areas will gust up to 50 mph and close to 4 inches of rain may drench urban areas, said Steve Anderson, a forecaster wi…
git clone in Haskell from the bottom up
In order to give some structure to my ongoing investigation of git’s data structures, protocols and implementation I decided to re-implement git clone without using any of git’s plumbing commands or any of the existing git libraries. Along the way I tried to keep some implementation notes that shoul…
Hasnain says:
This is a great article on both Haskell and Git and I need to go over it in detail.
Posted on 2014-12-07T22:10:22+0000
How We Earned $10,120 in 30 Days by Sending Horse Poop to People: Amazing Kickstart of a...
Shitexpress.com is a service allowing people to order a box with horse poop and send it anonymously to a person anywhere in the world. Apart from PayPal, we accept Bitcoin to ensure 100% anonymity of the buyer. Price: $16.95, including personalized message, packaging and shipping.
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Hasnain says:
I feel woefully inadequate after learning that this one guy did all this.
Posted on 2014-12-01T07:45:03+0000
Nine hard-won lessons about money and investing
Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I'm going to take that risk in this post. I'll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financially and what ...
Hasnain says:
A great set of tips on managing your finances (mostly US-centric but still)
Posted on 2014-12-01T05:43:45+0000
Functional Programming Patterns (BuildStuff '14)
In object-oriented development, we are all familiar with design patterns such as the Strategy pattern and Decorator pattern, and design principles such as SOLI…