Uber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of the process it began earlier this year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said to employees today…

Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends, scrubbed n00ds, trashed chiptune tracks, bomb threats, and…

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Safeway is an American supermarket chain that has historically had a pretty comprehensive coupon program. They somewhat recently tried to modernize their offerings (as they were...

One listed reason for raising prices was "market conditions."

The Unix Game is an online programming contest developed by Nokia Bell Labs in honor of the 50th anniversary of Unix. It features Unix-related questions that you must solve by combining the original Unix commands using Unix pipes.

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Skyline freshman Jesse Garcia admitted that he wasn’t too familiar with the game, so senior Wilver Amaya walked him through the paces, just like a good...

We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with companies…

Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly - dtolnay/watt

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James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language. Growing up and attending college in Calgary, Alberta, Gosling began his…

As some 30 dancers were handed the first employee paychecks ever issued to them by the Penthouse Club one evening in early November, a wave of panic swept the popular North Beach strip club. “I opened mine in the locker room, and I was shocked,” said a former…

The journal in 1992 had concluded that Ratcliffe's study was unfit for publication as the direction of research was something which was beyond their understanding.

MIT engineers have analyzed a bridge design proposed by Leonardo da Vinci, and found that it would indeed have stood solidly, had it ever been built.

When sudo is configured to allow a user to run commands as an arbitrary user via the ALL keyword in a Runas specification, it is possible to run commands as root by specifying the user ID -1 or 4294967295.
This can be used by a user with sufficient sudo privileges…

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