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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

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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…

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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...

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Microsoft announces full preview of the .NET Core runtime for Linux and Mac OS X

Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform -- which has traditionally been Windows-only -- to Linux and..

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Microsoft announces a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud...

Visual Studio Code will run on OS X, Linux and Windows. The application is still officially in preview, but you can now download it soon.

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The days are long but the decades are short

I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on.  I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...

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Five Disturbing Things You Didn't Know About Forensic "Science" - The Intercept

The FBI’s review of flawed hair analysis — its largest-ever post-conviction evaluation of questionable forensic evidence — is just the tip of the iceberg.

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