Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe for a Better Oven - IEEE Spectrum
We cook our food using technology invented to bake bricks. We can do a lot better
Hasnain says:
This is a really good article and discussion on oven technology.
Posted on 2014-06-30T20:01:03+0000
staltz/introrx.md
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.
Hasnain says:
This is a really good introduction to (Functional) Reactive Programming.
Posted on 2014-06-30T19:52:54+0000
Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
Not long after the security firm’s top manager in Iraq told a State Department investigator “that he could kill” him, the inquiry was abandoned. Weeks later, the firm’s guards killed 17 civilians in Iraq.
Hasnain says:
"Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports."
It's sad that investigative journalism like this is getting rarer and rarer these days.
It also doesn't help that Risen, a critically lauded Pulitzer prize winning journalist, is facing jail time for not disclosing his sources for his book.
Posted on 2014-06-30T16:52:33+0000
Announcing rest - A Haskell REST framework
We are excited to officially announce the open source release of our REST framework rest! rest is a set of packages used to write, document, and use RESTful applications. You write your API in Haskell using rest
The Science of Problem Solving
A review of the science behind problem solving, how it functions in the brain and how we can do it better.
On the Structural Differences of Higher Education in the UK and US
I explore why I believe the UK system of grading to be more effective than the US system, leading to a higher quality of education and a more valuable degree.
San Francisco Would Be a Better City With Twice as Many People
California is an earthly paradise. Yet there is something badly broken about the Golden State. At its best, California is America’s America, where the young and adventurous go for a fresh start. The trouble is that housing in much of California has become so expensive that the young and adventurous.…
Undefined behavior can result in time travel (among other things, but time travel is the...
The C and C++ languages are notorious for the very large section of the map labeled here be dragons, or more formally, undefined behavior.
Hasnain says:
This is really cool. As well as the two linked article series on undefined beaviour in C/C++
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
Vim Awesome
Awesome Vim plugins from across the universe
This CEO is out for blood
Elizabeth Holmes founded her revolutionary blood diagnostics company, Theranos, when she was 19. It’s now worth more than $9 billion, and poised to change health care.