In ‘The Tyranny of Merit’, Michael J. Sandel writes about contemporary attitudes toward success, failure, and meritocracy.

Guitar Center Inc, the largest U.S. retailer of music instruments and equipment, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Saturday, as music lovers moved their shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic.

To grasp how hard it is to predict what will happen after the world is thrown upside down – as it has been this year – you have to know the absurd story of how one of the most important agricultural developments of modern history came to be. It started in…

Caramel brings the safety of OCaml to the scalability of the BEAM

I am scared of Facebook. The company’s ambition, its ruthlessness, and its lack of a moral compass scare me...

Writing SQL using Java syntax. Contribute to braisdom/ObjectiveSql development by creating an account on GitHub.

copy and paste across machines. Contribute to bradwood/glsnip development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here’s the rough chronology: On April 22, 2015, Christian Brink and I, two tech entrepreneurs in our early thirties, incorporated the…

Hans Forsberg works with robotics on industrial applications for artificial intelligence and had an idea on how he could put his knowledge and the family of wild birds living in his backyard to good use.

Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an onli…

Coinbase, Expensify, Soylent, Clubhouse and others are embroiled in a culture war over politics and the workplace.

How Postgres stored procedures in Hyperscale (Citus) clusters have become 9.28X faster over the last few Citus open source releases, using distributed functions, along with new features such as local query execution and plan caching. Performance comparisons…

Python With Kurly braces. Contribute to umlet/pwk development by creating an account on GitHub.

The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.

Leaked files reportedly reveal a certain Casio watch is viewed by US officials as a sign of terrorist links. So how did the humble F-91W find itself in such a position?

One bad privacy idea that won’t die is the so-called “data dividend,” which imagines a world where companies have to pay you in order to use your data.Sound too good to be true? It is. Let’s be