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WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds.

The most important takeaways from the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are easily summarized: Global warming is happening, it’s caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts are very bad (in some cases, catastrophic). Every…

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Note: Shane Snow wrote a long and thoughtful email to me about this post. While we agree to disagree on some substantive issues, primarily our thoughts about the future of VR, we also found quite a bit of common ground. He noted that my essay, while mostly…

Sometimes, reading stale data is ok — preferred, even. Let's look at "follower reads" (aka "stale reads"), a technique for getting good performance from a database accessed from multiple geographic regions.

Majumder, S., Chakraborty, J., Agrawal, A., & Menzies, T. (2019). Why Software Projects need Heroes (Lessons Learned from 1100+ Projects). ArXiv, abs/1904.09954.

Link to paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332590549_Why_Software_Projects_nee…

As if modern solid state drives weren't already fast enough, Kioxia has now presented the technical data of its first PCIe 5.0 SSD prototype that delivers an impressive performance both while reading and writing data.

Koen Claessen and John Hughes. 2000. QuickCheck: a lightweight tool for random testing of Haskell programs. In Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming (ICFP '00). Association for Computing Machinery, New York…

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This question has the same spirit of what papers should everyone read and what videos should everybody watch. It asks for remarkable books in different areas of theoretical computer scie...

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

RT 🔒 (with permission):

"Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.

Unordered list of fun things I learned:"

A new, progressive way to read a book online, read any wall of text paragraph by paragraph.

RT 🔒 (with permission):

"Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.

Unordered list of fun things I learned:"

Main software architecture patterns in a nutshell.