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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The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
For more stories like this, like Slate on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it w ...
Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
Video games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to make mobile titles worth playing
Hasnain says:
"Most games are missing fundamental game design"
So true
Posted on 2016-04-29T05:08:43+0000
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks
The decline that has taken place over the past decade has been happening in all regions and among all races and ethnicities.
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Posted on 2016-04-29T05:04:36+0000