Surprisingly, the skills that should be most in-demand for tech hires are soft ones.

Bill Wyman, Jimmy Johnson, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Marshall Chess (president of Rolling Stones Records), Ahmet Ertegun (president of Atlantic Records) and Terry Woodford
 
Is Sticky Fingers the Stones’ best album? What do you think? There’s a lot…

Amazon said it never implemented the technology described in the patent, granted in 2016, and has no plans to.

Dirty data science machine learning on non-curated data - Download as a PDF or view online for free

And the debug process leading up to it. Try it yourself!

When the Daylight saving time starts, and the computer's clock jumps forward, what does cron do? If the clock jumps from 1AM to 2AM, and there is a job scheduled for 1:30AM, will cron run this job? If yes, when? Likewise, when the Daylight saving time ends…

In this article, I document many of the most important changes that the KiCad developers have introduced to KiCad 6, including numerous "under the hood" improvements, and new productivity features in the front end.

Turtl is a very well done, secure collaborative notebook web app. https://turtlapp.com Its api backend is built in Common Lisp: https://github.com/turtl/api/ It is based on many async libraries the developer wrote for Turtl, like the Wookie async HTTP server.“is”…

Intro to Cassette Recorder Operation, Maintenance, and Repair: As somebody who lived through the cassette tape era, to see it come around again is interesting and nostalgic. I see lots of groups all over the web dedicated to tape and tape machines but still…

As the pandemic forced most players online, the problem of cheating consumed the game’s highest levels. Top players say a tight-lipped culture is finally changing.

In an important step toward ensuring the protocols that dictate how our networked services operate are safe, secure and running as expected, University of Michigan researchers have automated a technique called formal verification.

Their system proves,…

“Writing is its own reward.” – Henry Miller Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates new ones.  Writing forces you to think. It’s nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is…

This tax bill would likely end founder control of lots of independent companies - perhaps including Epic Games. washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…

High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

Nature - Analysis of 273 ancient horse genomes reveals that modern domestic horses originated in the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region.