In 1907 proposal for daylight savings time – with the clocks changing by 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, for 1 hr 20 total and back again in September…

A key disadvantage suggested was that the cows wouldn’t give milk earlier…

Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)

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Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.

The bodies of 270 German soldiers have lain hidden since they were buried alive by a French bombardment.

The executive says the indictment highlights the “vilification” of anyone “who takes a stance against unwarranted surveillance.”

The OODA Loop is a four-step process for making effective decisions in high-stakes situations. It involves collecting relevant information, recognizing potential biases, deciding, and acting, then repeating the process with new information. Read on to learn…

I wrote the blog post that announced Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) fifteen years ago today. In that post, I made it clear that the service was accessed via APIs and that it was targeted at developers, outlined a few key features, and shared pricing…

There are net-positive legislative policies which legislators won’t enact, because they only help people in the medium to far future.  For example: Climate change policyInfrastructure investme…

A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn…

The messaging tool is selling more than $1 billion of debt to fund operations and repay existing creditors, as it races to attract ads.

Germany has suspended use of AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Monday, making it the latest of several European countries to hit pause following reports of blood coagulation disorders in recipients.

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