The page "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" covers some of the ways names are hard to deal with in programming. This post will ignore most of those complexities, and deal with the problem of matching up loose user input to a database of names.

Have fun learning more about the Qt Quick Rendering engine, starting with a ground plane, in this Minecraft-esque 3D block building game.

Texas’s deregulated electricity market left millions in the dark last week. For the past 20 years, its consumers have paid more for their electricity than state residents who are served by traditional utilities, a WSJ investigation found.

Imagine, if you will, that you’re in a grocery aisle looking for flour. Your eyes scan bags upon bags for something familiar, but the brand you normally buy is out of stock. There’s this other one, though...lowest price (that’s good). Nice packaging, too.…

From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them

A dad from Wisconsin is the face of a crypto market you didn’t know existed.

Cassandra does many things quite well but has certain limitations that preclude its use for a primary storage object store. Some vendors use it anyway.

For fund manager Katie Potts, setting mandatory quotas for women on corporate boards of technology startups is a bad idea. Not because she’s against diversity, but because she says there just aren’t enough suitable candidates.

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🦊 Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker. - mdubourg001/glci

"Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace," said a Coca-Cola spokesperson.

Canadians say that the consistency of local butter has changed. Experts may have found the culprit.

Judge denies injunction, letting Calif. enforce law while ISPs' suit continues.

Team plans to culture hair follicles taken from those with male-pattern baldness and then implant the cultured cells back in their heads.

During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that

Kevin is working on creating better tools for thought

Berkeley was the first city in the country to enact single-family zoning more than 100 years ago. Opponents of single-family zoning say it was used to exclude people of color from moving into certain neighborhoods.

I’m a 19-year-old girl in Gaza, Palestine studying Computer Engineering who just was selected for a summer internship at Google and…