AP Style alert: Don’t capitalize internet and web anymore
Associated Press editors announced a new stylebook change Saturday ahead of a session at the annual American Copy Editors Society’s conference — the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words &#…
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Posted on 2016-04-03T16:50:31+0000
We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source || kuro5hin.org
The timestamps on the files generally say 25 July 2000. The source is contained in a Zip file of size 213,748,207 bytes, named windows_2000_source_code.zip, which has been widely circulated on P2P networks. Some dummy files of similar size, containing just strings of zeroes, have also circulated.
Clang vs. GCC - code coverage checking
Recently, I've been compiling some of the codebases I work on under Clang 3.8 instead of GCC 4.8, to take advantage of better compiler warnings and faster compilation speed (I've seen a 33% speedup, though I haven't tested this rigorously). Today, I got to grips ...
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Posted on 2016-04-02T23:09:06+0000
Head of Oracle Linux moves to Microsoft | ZDNet
The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft.
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Posted on 2016-04-02T21:24:01+0000
Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest
Younger people need more sleep than adults, and they face antiquated school schedules.
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Posted on 2016-04-02T08:03:02+0000
Google killed its April Fools' Day joke after it allegedly lost people their jobs
Google's prank this year backfired — fast.
How to Hack an Election
Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time.
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Definitely think his tattoos are creative "" and "
" Posted on 2016-04-01T05:32:23+0000
The Invisible Catastrophe
Over the course of 4 months, 97,100 metric tons of methane quietly leaked out of a single well into California’s sky. Scientists and residents are still trying to figure out just how much damage was done.
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Posted on 2016-04-01T05:24:22+0000
Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
The tyranny of the morningarchy must end.
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Posted on 2016-04-01T05:18:47+0000
LKML: Richard Weinberger: New syscall: leftpad()
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Leftpad straight in the kernel as a syscall so no one can take it away
Posted on 2016-04-01T04:51:36+0000