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...
Want a Steady Income? There’s an App for That
A Silicon Valley start-up wants to put workers on an even keel.
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..
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.
Hasnain says:
This is pretty cool. First Atom, then Nuclide and now this. They should all collaborate
Posted on 2015-04-30T00:22:05+0000
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...
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.
Hasnain says:
"Dexter lied to you about blood spatters. They sow chaos and confusion."
Posted on 2015-04-28T20:37:10+0000