Nostalgia for another way of working

This is the 4th post in a series on System Design. Nearly 3% of infrastructure at Twitter is dedicated to application-level caching Link In an application, caches can be found in many places. CPUs that run your applications have fast, multilevel hardware…

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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Nature Energy - The maritime shipping industry is heavily energy-consuming and highly polluting, and, as such, is urgently seeking low-emission options. Here the authors examine the feasibility of...

The civil liberties group released documents showing new details about how agencies had purchased information on people's movements throughout North America.

Einstein’s Push

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

µServer in Bash. Contribute to EddySchauHai/bashttp development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the two decades since it was first included in products available to the general public, Bluetooth has become so widespread that an entire generation of consumers may not be able to remember a time without it.

A complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation. - GitHub - jjazzboss/JJazzLab-X: A complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation.

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5-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen today ended months of speculation by announcing he will not defend his noscript. The 31-year-old Norwegian is not retiring and vows “to be the best in the world, and not care about the World Championship!” That means…

A weird almost unreadable font file bundled with TeamViewer for Windows software lets website detect if you’ve installed the software. Raises privacy concerns.

A few words on the Unix philosophy of building small programs that do one thing well, and compose for comprehensive functionality.