The strange prehistory and dangerous afterlife of SimCity.

Andrew Tan, Quantitative Analyst
Preston Lim, Software Engineer
Tan Kai Wei, Data Scientist

7+ Million HTTP requests per second from a single server

My son Atlas is just over nine months old. He’s just started crawling, eating solids, and getting close to saying words. One thing that’s been troubling me, is that he probably won’t have liberty (freedom) in his lifetime. Liberty requires a few things: Freedom…

When last we checked in on the EU Copyright Directive it had been put on hold when the European Council (with representatives from all...

When Le Guin found her way into science fiction and fantasy, those genres turned out to be well suited to her imagination, her curiosity, and her subversive suspicion that man was not the measure of all things.

Discover why constant news consumption makes us less informed and how to break free from information overload to think more clearly.

commit/branch/workdir explorer for git. Contribute to isacikgoz/gitin development by creating an account on GitHub.

When planning connectivity deployments in emerging markets, it’s important to have a clear picture of where existing power lines are placed. This information helps us make better decisions ab…

Pop-up attractions like the Happy Place are built for selfies, but does anybody actually enjoy going to them?

@mandrillapp Could someone take a minute just to explain what on earth is taking so long to fix? Was it a bad deploy? Did your cloud get pwned? Are you being DDoS'd? How do you strand customers for nearly 23 hours and still not explain what is going on?

Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it's best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you're trying to get information out of.