[Discuss this article and read other’s comments on the subject on this thread on Hacker News.] The three fundamental building blocks of computers, CPU, I/O and RAM can come under pressure due to co…

We are excited to announce XLOOKUP, Excel's most powerful lookup function and the successor to the iconic VLOOKUP.

I can’t keep track of the number of articles I’ve read about hiring in the past few years. Inevitably, they all follow the exact same format. First, they claim that hiring is broken. Ne…

With the help of Amtrak and Greyhound informants, agents approach people on thin evidence they are drug couriers — and often take their cash.

On Wednesday, Uber and Lyft released a new petition against Assembly Bill 5, the California bill about to be debated in the Senate that, if passed, would almost certainly result in gig economy workers being designated as employees in the state rather than…

Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.

Google has pushed RCS messaging – a superior alternative to SMS – to Android phones in the UK and France. But only 43 mobile operators, out of around 850 globally, are working with the company

Over the past week, Cindy and I have been staying in the Marais district of Paris, wandering around and living like locals. Perhaps…

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An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami.

Alcohol preferences in Europe vary from country to country between beer, wine or spirits. These preferences are traditionally associated with certain regions. Hence, the Central European pattern of alcohol consumption is associated with beer-drinking, the…

eBay's TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files. Filtering, statistics, sampling, joins and more. - eBay/tsv-utils

After spending 6 months trying to write automated UI tests, we gave up. What challenges did we face and what did we get wrong along the…