Insiders reveal just how close the BBC came to launching a credible Netflix competitor – only to have the door slammed in its face

A lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life—probably because that’s the only thing they’ve ever been rewarded for so far.

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The company that owned it, Tesloop, gave me the vehicle’s full maintenance records, so let’s look at every part that had to be swapped.

As a web developer, I use relational databases every day at my job, but they’re a black box to me. Some questions I have: What format is data saved in? (in memory and on disk) When does it move from memory to disk? Why can there only be one primary key per…

Recently, I built up a local development environment that uses Docker for some critical integration test paths. As I put the finishing touches on this work, I realized there were some far-reaching …

Machine learning is finally becoming accessible

XD Pascal: A small embeddable self-hosting Pascal compiler for Windows. Supports Go-style methods and interfaces - vtereshkov/xdpw

The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to ripple around a world transformed by China’s boom.

The phrase “Swifty code” is often used to describe code that follows the conventions that are currently the most popular within the Swift community. But what exactly does that entail? Let’s take a look.

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A proposed California law would give almost every adult in the state $1,000 per month, similar to the universal basic income plan of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

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A programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine, and create network services.

This article argues it is inherently wrong to set up software metrics to try and 'improve' the software development process. Using a fictitious scenario, this article explains
the reasons why it is wrong, the damages it may cause, and offers some alternatives…