For many people, Latin is useless. I won’t enter into a discussion on the meaning of “utility,” a concept with variations and stratifications that are centuries in the making, and which itself meri…

Can using clang-format make your code slower? Kind of.

According to a new analysis, places away from the coasts in the Sunbelt and West are pulling ahead when it comes to attracting talented workers.

We look into the pg_trgm extension, seeing first what trigrams actually are, and then how we can practically use similarity functions and operators in our Rails apps.

The New York State Attorney General (NYAG) is investigating WeWork, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding to a mounting series of problems that have turned the workspace provider from a Wall Street darling to a pariah in a matter of weeks.

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after…

Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary black hole analysis.

Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust.…

Cripples and lovely women are both tired of being looked at, they are weary of an existence that involves constantly being observed, they feel hemmed in; and...

How I built and sold a bootstrapped Micro-SaaS business in five years. A guide for founders to selling a SaaS business.

Ergonomic Rust bindings for instrumenting Rust apps with high performance probes using SystemTap, DTrace, etc - GitHub - anelson/tracers: Ergonomic Rust bindings for instrumenting Rust apps with hi...

By migrating in huge herds, bison behave like a force of nature, engineering and intensifying waves of spring greenery that other grazers rely on.

Vulnerabilities in the Google Camera app left hackers able to take photos, and silently record audio and video, even when the phone was locked.

OK, fine maybe they DID teach you this in class. But, you'd be surprised how many people think they know something but ...