What’s unusual about medical professionals is not how much treatment they get when faced with a terminal illness—but how little.

For centuries, Yiddish was the language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Nowadays, it is rarely spoken – but it lives on in the texts of Yiddish literature and the minds of Yiddish scholars who have strived to analyse its complex composition.

Subprime lenders are increasingly relying on technology that allows them to track and disable delinquent borrowers’ vehicles with just a tap of a cellphone app.

In 2020, I started writing a 3D game engine from scratch in C++. This is a post about how I added skeletal animation to it. Drake is in it, so buckle up.

Wellcome's digital platform dedicated to long-form journalism about science and health, has now closed. 

This cause is personal to me.

Prediction markets are fun, at least if you're making money.

Historically, the Python syntax hasn’t had a switch-case statement. In 2006 Guido van Rossum, the original author of Python, proposed different alternatives for the switch-case syntax in PEP 3103 but they all seemed to have some problems and the idea didn’t…

Build it and they will come! In the 1989 classic: Field of Dreams an Iowa farmer has a vision to bulldoze a portion of his corn crop in…

Will Wright says that he was inspired to make SimCity in part thanks to the book Urban Dynamics, by Jay Wright Forrester, but did the game take more than just the book’s city models? Did it also incorporate its retro politics?

David Shayer worked at Apple for 14 years, and he has a wild experience to share. Apple has a unique culture, and David will give us an insider view of what it was like for him at Apple during the 2000s, roughly between 2001 to 2015 when Apple transformed…

LinkedIn employees worldwide are getting a paid week off starting April 5.

A permissively licensed C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs. Requires C++11 support. - dougbinks/enkiTS

A submersible has reached the USS Johnston, which lies 6.5km beneath the waves in the Pacific.

Building a portable IDE to run anywhere (as long as you’ve got Docker)