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A simple graphic makes the practice of gerrymandering easy to grasp

For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for leisure, and working on the open-source projects I am involved in. These weekend projects overlap with the work that I do in my day job here at Stack Overflow, but are not exactly the same. Many developers tinker with side projects…

TL;DR This blog post explains how computers running the Linux kernel send packets, as well as how to monitor and tune each component of the networking stack as packets flow from user programs to network hardware.

Or in other projects that embed V8

After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set.

Cop shows always want to zoom in and enhance pictures of the bad guys. Thanks to Google Brain, we can now do that.

Cop shows always want to zoom in and enhance pictures of the bad guys. Thanks to Google Brain, we can now do that.

The world economy has evolved before and will continue to evolve as automation becomes more prevalent in business throughout the country.

The expectation that big data alone will be enough to predict armed conflict is unrealistic, says Lars-Erik Cederman, who explains why in this interview.

Oracle may be late to the game of public enterprise cloud, but the Oracle Cloud claims to have at least one infrastructure technology that at least the major dominating cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure can't offer yet: Hypervisor-free virtualization. This virtualization of the company's Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services, which provides what the…

Over the past week, I’ve listened to and read several articles that have started me thinking more about the Psychology of Programming. Not that I haven’t been thinking about this for a while.  I’ve been quite intrigued by human behavior…

Excellent Youtube on fibre optic

Why the fight for privacy matters.

The scourge of Powerpoint continues to spread throughout the land. In offices everywhere, people roll out their decks, click through their bullet points and bore all of us to tears. Worst of all, i…

The idea of ARM processors being used in datacenter servers has been kicking around more most of the decade. The low-power architecture dominates the

Accenture has debuted a new blockchain-focused hardware solution for storing private keys.

A group of security researchers from academe and industry (including perennial Boing Boing favorite J Alex Halderman) have published an important paper documenting the prevalence and problems of fi…

I recently noticed that numbers are used a lot in China for email addresses and user names. I also found out that a number of popular websites, such as Alibaba and Baidu, had official domain names that are entirely numbers. It seemed that people had a preference for numbers instead of latin letters, and even big websites wanted to accommodate for this.

Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation.

This is guest post by Sergei Sheinin , creator of the 2DX Web UI Database Cluster Framework , a lo...

Current epoch and unix timestamp converter and timestamp generator for developers. Timestamp conversion syntax for various programming languages.

In a move last week that was greeted by some of the premier engineers in the containerization space as an almost royal blessing for open standards, Amazon Web Services announced on its engineering blog that its EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is adding support for the draft specifications for the OCI container format. The move is…

Change is an aspect of life that we have to deal with on a daily basis – and one that has a special significance for software development, as it makes or breaks a project often enough. It’s no wonder then, that it has lately become an important topic for many software houses. The results? New ideas and support tools for software development and distribution.

There might never be a more perfect time to read Jaeger, the digital comic by Ibrahim Moustafa about an Arab chasing down the Nazis who imprisoned him.

As I mentioned yesterday, I am moderating a panel this morning at NewCo Shift Forum on The Future Of Labor. As I think about, there are three big megatrends impacting the future of labor/work. The first has largely played itself out over the past thirty years and that is globalization and outsourcing. I believe we […]

Recent research suggests that many VPNs for Android have privacy and security flaws, and the problem of choosing a reliable VPN goes even further.