A few days ago John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question” which drew a lot of attention on Hacker News. The Ballmer’s favorite brain teaser goes like this:

Visa said it plans to launch a dedicated service for bank transfers, skipping credit cards and the traditional direct debit process.

Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does,...

Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey’s history, or was it all just a big misunderstanding?

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2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...

The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed.

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Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process - RaisinTen/electron-snapshot-experiment

I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite…

Oxford PV has revealed a "world-first" commercial sale of its tandem solar panels that produce 20% more energy than standard silicon panels.

Okay, everybody is weighing in but I have a thing to say I haven’t seen elsewhere so I’ll just say it.

TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet and mail readers - luke8086/retronews

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