Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's - BBC News
Skype is unable to get an EU-wide trademark for its brand because a court believes its name is too similar to the broadcaster Sky's.
Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped
German anger turns inward following allegations that the country’s spies aided U.S. snooping on friends.
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Posted on 2015-05-05T15:22:39+0000
Fractal Lab
A demo video of a browser based interactive 3D fractal explorer and renderer.
What every computer science major should know
Given the expansive growth in the field, it's become challenging to discern what belongs in a modern computer science degree.
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This is an amazing list. A lot of CS programs should be better structured
Posted on 2015-05-05T06:31:49+0000
When will we find aliens?
For the first time in human history, we have the means to answer the question
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Posted on 2015-05-04T04:19:38+0000
I secretly lived in my office for 500 days
Unable to pay rent in L.A., I slept behind my desk. But what began as a quick financial fix soon became a lifestyle
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Posted on 2015-05-04T03:25:48+0000
Pony - High Performance Actor Programming
Actor Model, Low Latency, High Performance, Programming, Capabilities, Data-race free
End of the car age: how cities outgrew the automobile
Cities around the world are coming to the same conclusion: they’d be better off with far fewer cars. So what’s behind this seismic shift in our urban lifestyles? Stephen Moss investigates
Thinking About Performance | Chad Austin
First, when I announced BufferBuilder on reddit, one early commenter asked "Did you run your Haskell through a profiler to help identify the slow parts of your code?" A fairly reasonable question, but no, I didn’t. And the reason is that, if stuff shows up in a Haskell profiler, it’s already going t…
Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface
Table of Contents Part One Category: The Essence of Composition Types and Functions Categories Great and Small Kleisli Categories Products and Coproducts Simple Algebraic Data Types Functors Functo...