programming, language design, and human factors

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In the late 1970s, 52 percent of 12th-graders hung out with their friends almost every day. By 2017, only 28 percent were doing so.

The fast-food giant's largest acquisition in 20 years is bringing machine learning to the drive-thru.

Read this page on the Filament Group website

Syllabus with assigned readings and final examination for Thomas Schelling's 1970 undergraduate course at Harvard ""Conflict, Coalition and Strategy".

How can mass-copying pages from web publishers without a license not be considered copyright infringement?

Just how expensive do prenoscription drugs need to be to fund innovative research?

"A beautiful space for reading and writing" and pivoting.

a tool for thinking in systems

Monitoring systems were looking for attacks using technique popularized by the NSA.

How Asmara in Eritrea unintentionally became a cycling paradise.

Design and code to deploy a self-hosted content delivery network.

Logs from the application level are the only way your application talks back to you. Having proper logs with commendable search capabilities is like having a torch in a dark room.

A little known story about how @paulg, writing a comment in the newborn Hacker News, inspired the creation of Redis. At some point he wrote that in certain Lisp programs he wrote there was this pattern of just storing data in memory, logging on disk what…

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“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe.…

I was reading a post recently about Red Hat removing MongoDB support from Satellite (and yes, some folks say it is because of the license changes). It made me think how often over the last few years I’ve seen post after angry post about how terrible MongoDB…

Unvaccinated children are barred from public spaces after 153 cases in Rockland County, New York.

The Adams brothers just want what they need to survive, and making millions is a concept they can't comprehend.

“To an editor,” Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, wrote in 2001, “space may be money, but to a cartoonist, space is time. Space provides the tempo and rhythm of th…