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How are Americans expressing their anger and anxiety over the Trump administration? Email. Lots of email.

Four State Department officials who quit in protest in the 1990s advise others to use the powers of the bureaucracy to thwart unwise policies.

Get Shift Done: Management Building software for startups is a huge challenge. Not because writing the software itself is that hard, but most startups have managed to create the least optimal place…

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As a software developer, performance problems are a “good” problem to have, because it means your product is being used! Here at Reverb, we…

Last week, a 200MW solar fishery came online in Cixi City in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The photos below show the immensity of the project. Dual use solar power comes in many forms: parking lot solar is always getting attention, walkable solar glass – like the project built by Apple (though I don’t think the Apple campus solar counts), […]

The software development cycle is accelerating, and the web supports it beautifully. There’s no need to send new binaries to your users…

Typically in event-sourced systems (with Command Query Responsibility Segregation) that need to display data to a client, we have three components that must co-operate write model that accepts commands and writes events to its event store read model that accepts events and returns DTOs to a client client (e.g. web browsers) that writes commands to write model and queries read model for DTOs

An asemic Markov-chained cipher. Contribute to linenoise/asemica development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's fashionable for designers and marketers to want to reduce friction in the way they engage with users. And sometimes, that's smart. If someone knows what they want, get out of their w…

Nuclear power is no longer a competitive US option in a carbon-constrained future when solar is already at 3 cents per kWh and wind is even less.

Stop blaming the media, fake news, and click bait.

People are extremely fond of referencing Orwell right now, and specifically 1984. So much so in fact that it's just become a #1 bestseller again. I think

Private ownership of key Internet infrastructure is disturbing.

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Contribute to jakekarnes42/hashable development by creating an account on GitHub.

Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

Alphabet subsidiary decided hardware emulator that's plagued Xen had to go

Joe Kutner talks about Kafka and where it fits in a Spring app and how to make it do things message queues simply can't.

A shell script to temporary allow ssh logins for friends - GitHub - flplv/ssh-allow-friend: A shell script to temporary allow ssh logins for friends

The World Wide Web Consortium’s Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is a DRM system for web video, being pushed by Netflix, movie studios, and a few broadcasters. It’s been hugely controve…

In this article we'll explore how software evolution helps us make sense of large codebases.

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