This article will try to convince you that adding some limitations on legal Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames would be an improvement. Many programs already presume these limitations, the POSIX standard already permits such limitations, and many Unix/Linux filesystems…

A growing number of neuroscientists believe that sleep not only helps cement memories, but is actually a time to learn something new.

Recently, I started a new project using Scala/Spark. The project runs on the AWS EMR infrastructure and data science investigations are performed in Zeppelin notebooks hosted on S3. We review all our data science deliverables and it quickly became clear that…

For the centennial of the great Russian's birth, critic and piano maven Steve Wigler recalls a herculean talent who shook Carnegie Hall to its foundation.

You can draw a line from the tiny toys to Apple Inc.

A set of stairs may have never caused so much trouble in an aircraft.

Some people are calling the 737MAX tragedies a #software failure. Here's my response: It's not a software problem. It was an * Economic problem that the 737 engines used too much fuel, so they decided to install more efficient engines with bigger fans and…

Paul Dean explores the surface joys of Stardew Valley and reflects on life, labour and love

Collection of useful Rust code examples

Norway has become the first country to ban deforestation. The Norwegian Parliament pledged May 26 that the government's public procurement policy will be deforestation-free.
Any product that contributes to deforestation will not be used in the Scandinavian…

Simply holding meritocracy as a value seems to promote discriminatory behavior.

A free REST API for random Kanye West quotes

RPCS3 is an open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows and Linux.

An entrepreneur builds a one-metre-long stretch of motorway to protest about poor road infrastructure.

A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client. Contribute to picotorrent/picotorrent development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dr. Alan Kay explains when "object-oriented" was first used and what it means.
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