The Babylonians knew an amazingly good approximation to the square root of 2 back around 1700 BC. But did they know it was just an approximation?

It seems like we're beginning to enter an age of space tourism, but even back in 1967, the head of Hilton was planning to build a hotel on the moon.

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Python users who upgrade to recently released pyarrow 0.12 may find that their applications use significantly less memory when converting Arrow string data to pandas format. This article details some of what is going on under the hood, and why Python applications…

Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it…

As the web continues to expand how does Frontend Engineering fit into this landscape and what makes a Frontend Engineer great?

Is it just me or is today's internet boring and overly commercialized? I feel like today's internet is like a modern mall, sterile and boring with just main-brand clothing stores, a food court...

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Both D3 and Observablehqcom are excellent product. Thanks to the authors! I want to learn D3. However a lot of D3 official examples are coding in Observablehq.com. I don`t want to learn Observable, because I mainly use D3 for off-line academic Chart. …

For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.

Every developer should watch the 5 videos about DocC from WWDC. But it’s really a plaintive cry for help. Until Apple squares up and addresses the problem, it can only grow worse.

Mostly the reason I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists as an institution is that their primary value add is marketing, their due diligence is a joke, and they are functionally equivalent…

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