Soccer’s Most Remarkable Season
A year after narrowly avoiding relegation, Leicester City is on the verge of a Premier League title.
Hasnain says:
I haven't been following the premier league this year but this is kind of crazy
Posted on 2016-05-02T16:37:34+0000
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
Fewer T.S.A. screeners, tighter budgets, new checkpoint procedures and growing numbers of passengers have led to epic security lines, and there’s no end in sight.
Hasnain says:
"While the T.S.A. says it is hiring and training hundreds of additional screening officers, matters are not likely to improve anytime soon. Airline and airport officials have said they fear that the current slowdown will last through the year and could cause a summer travel meltdown when travel demand peaks."
Posted on 2016-05-02T14:40:06+0000
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies
Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.
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Posted on 2016-05-02T03:43:03+0000
How to Pay No Taxes: 10 Strategies Used by the Rich
If you have lots of money, Tuesday, April 17, was one of the best tax days since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts remain at or near historically low levels. That’s thanks, in part, to legislation passed in December 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed...
A cache miss is not a cache miss
When writing performant code, we are careful to avoid cache misses when possible. When discussing cache misses, however, we are usually content with counting the number of cache misses. In this post I will explain why this is not sufficient, as data dependency also make a huge difference.
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Posted on 2016-05-02T03:20:15+0000
Handcuffed to Uber
A quick scan of LinkedIn for former employees underscores the point. Of Uber’s roughly 6,700 employees, only a tiny fraction have left, and in most cases,..
Berlin Bans Most Airbnb-Style Rentals
Airbnb's offerings in the city dropped 40 percent in a month, even before the laws take effect.
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Posted on 2016-05-02T02:55:27+0000
What Happened to Google Maps?
Surprising Changes to Google Maps's Cartography Browsing Google Maps over the past year or so, I've often thought that there are fewer labels than there used to be. Google's cartography was revamped three years ago – but surely this didn't include a reduction in labels? Rather, the sparser maps appe…
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Posted on 2016-05-01T05:45:16+0000
Myths and Legends about Integer Overflow in Rust
Integer overflow detection/handling in Rust is sometimes misunderstood.
[llvm-dev] RFC: XRay -- A Function Call Tracing System
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