Interactive Beta Version of Tool Blends Accuracy and Simplicity, Allows Customers to Plan Trips and Navigate System in Real Time Digital Map Reflects Service Changes in Real-Time and Will Replace the
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stock
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Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my best life? Level 2: STUFF TO DO I have a f
Illustration by Daniel Jurman for The Verge Nina* was scrolling Apple News in July 2021 when she came across a headline that looked familiar. Even before opening the story, she had a feeling she might
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Dynamo Machine, Natalia Goncharova Quick programming notes: I wrapped up my previous gig a few weeks ago and I’m psyched to be starting as Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Duo . As always, Normcore up
Has The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham been sitting on your reading list? Pick up the key ideas in the book with this quick summary. Have you ever noticed that over the past few years that the
News StarFighter Linux Laptop with Thunderbolt 4 Available for Pre-order By published 17 November 2022 Completely customizable (Image credit: Star Labs) Star Labs, maker of Linux-equipped PCs, is taki
The Unix philosophy famously holds that you should write software that “does one thing, and does it well”. There are other tenets as well, but I’m focusing on the core idea expressed in Programming De
At this moment, at the beginning of the year, I have eight active big rock projects. The following attributes define these projects: I am the primary owner and have committed to someone that they will
How stdbuf works 2022-11-11 stdbuf(1) is a little command line utility that changes how a program buffers its standard input or output streams. It sometimes doesn’t work as expected, so I became curio
The Recurse Center and the joy of learning Published by Martin Kleppmann on 11 Oct 2015. I have just spent an excellent two weeks as a resident at the Recurse Center (RC).As RC is a somewhat unusual i
Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent I've got this working theory that you can tell how enthusiastic someone is about a su
Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be
In late 1921, an exhausted T.S. Eliot dragged himself to the Albemarle Hotel in Margate, on the Kent coast. Signed off from his job at Lloyds Bank for three months complete rest, he spent a few weeks
With Twitter's recent notoriety , countless social media platforms have emerged from the shadows. If you've spent any time on social media since Elon's takeover, I'm sure you've heard rumblings about
The new social software is subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter. Published in UX Collective · 9 min read · Nov 9, 2022 -- Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash B
Party’s Over, Pleb. 14 min read · Nov 6, 2022 -- For most of the modern era, most people in the rich world have been poor, just like their parents and their children. Social mobility was more dream th
No one ever went broke taking a profit Unlike companies that reinvest all or most of the money back into the company every year, we take money (profit) out every year in the form of distributions (we’
Author practices jumping rope with seaweed while work awaits. ``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Ch
Quick programming notes: NormConf is a real, free conference and it is happening on December 15 . See you there! Second, I recently had the distinct privilege of being interviewed by Peter Wang about
A Team at Microsoft is Helping Make Python Faster Jay Miller October 26th, 2022 Inside the Faster CPython Team at Microsoft The last few years have seen Python rise to prominence. TIOBE and IEEE both
Once upon a time I started taking photos with a Lubitel , which is an old, very basic, and completely manual camera. In 2000 I switched from film to digital and everything could be automated. This was
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