On 20 January 2018 Taliban gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul that was popular with foreign guests - Vasileios Vasileiou was one of them.

1. Introduction Shortly after the death of E.W. Dijkstra (1930-2002), K.R. Apt wrote an obituary under the noscript Portrait of a Genius [1]. At the time it seemed to me a bit over the top. Now, with …

Zorp GPL

Photo Credit: zacktionman TL;DR Rank and file programmers at the top tier tech companies now make $300 to $400 thousand per year.Much of this is driven by large stock valuations.Other career paths seem 'harder', and yet they're not compensated as well.

The network must be secure enough for the innovations it promises.

Self-experiment on whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil speaks at last year’s RAADfest, discussing Sophia the robot, future risks, and how the Technological Singularity still remains near!

Been wanting to post this here for a while now. As there are many indie developers here, perhaps if I can help one person to potentially avoid...

In May 1997, the same month that The Lost World: Jurassic Park debuted in the United States, the U.S. Postal Service released 15 gorgeous…

How insurance companies farm out their dirty work to doctors and patients.

Previously, I wrote an article about customizing objects by manually defining its property/accessor denoscriptors. The current article is…

Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature. Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change…

What happened that made TypeScript viable for me and worth migrating paypal-noscripts for.

hen one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the wisdom he has gained over his lifetime. This request is based on the false assumption that wisdom increases…

The BitTorrent protocol has a decentralized nature but the ecosystem surrounding it has some weak spots. Torrent sites, for example, use centralized search engines which are prone to outages and takedowns. Torrent-Paradise tackles this problem with IPFS,…

It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…