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Sweden's ‘Street Moves’ program offers a model for making neighborhood residents the planners of their own streets.

Japan’s ‘disaster parks,’ which double as sites of recreation and disaster preparedness, offer a model for our own region.

As we approach the limits of electrical interconnects, advances in integrated photonics may soon drive optical I/O inside servers.

Intellectual property (IP) concepts play a huge role in software in general and free and open source software in particular. IP is a complex and nuanced body of law, but thankfully you don’t need to pass the bar to understand the fundamental concepts, starting with copyright and its relation to software.

How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...

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Design your hiring process to find the right people to strengthen your teams' weaknesses, rather than trying to find the best people. Instead of "how can we find the smartest people?" think about "how can we find the people who will make our team stronger?"

I hear this all the time, and I want to set the record straight: Just because you are part of a Microsoft “shop” (an organization or team that focuses heavily on Microsoft technologies, such as Azure) doesn’t necessarily eliminate the possibility of using Linux as your local development machine.

The Synchronization Context is an abstraction that lets you run a piece of code asynchronously without thinking about the specifics of the current environment. How does it work, and when is it invoked as part of the async workflow? Let’s explore those topics!

Microservices vs API are usually paired together as the services under the microservices architecture uses APIs to communicate with each other.

Posted on Monday 12 Apr 2021. 396 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

There has been talk and cajoling and rumor for years that GPU juggernaut Nvidia would jump into the Arm server CPU chip arena once again and actually

A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.

*Amazon Prime’s Invincible Spoiler Alert* The second episode of Invincible was a doozy. Do tachyons exist? via SyFy An examination reveals the aliens weren’t defeated by a toxin, and th…

What is time? We think of it as something, if not physical, then at least real. We know there was a past because we remember it, and we believe there is a future because for every moment we've

The patent for the lightsaber magic that everyone is freaking out about. pic.twitter.com/25x4ZxRbEx— Disney Dan Becker (@DisneyDan) April 9, 2021

Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?

Unix-like operating system is hilarious – even the support is in tiers

Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich

Workplaces are coming back in person, and employees are already losing it.

Robby speaks with Bertold Kolics, Software Quality Manager at mabl. They discuss the benefits of documenting software behavior, tracking down and removing dead code, and challenges that teams face when relying on 3rd-party APIs and libraries. Bertold also talks about the role of a Software Quality Manager, as well as tips on how to evaluate open-source components.

In India Should Embrace Not Ban Cryptoc I said “the irony is that India has one of the world’s most advanced identity and payments systems, the India stack” and by integrating the India stack with crypto India could take in important step and leapfrog slower to adapt countries. Now iSpirit, the team behind the India […]

Identity feels permanent, powerful, emotional and fragile. Identity has been used to unite college alumni (“we are!”), political factions and groups of all kinds. Criticism is not in sh…

You are probably familiar with Ajit Pai, the former head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) famous for killing net...

A new type of road surface, partly made from old tyres, can help reduce road noise and is a cheaper option than noise barriers.

Creates two new mini models because it’s assumed you won’t build silos to host huge hot monsters

Today, we are introducing the OpenSearch project, a community-driven, open source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. We are making a long-term investment in OpenSearch to ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative functionality. This project includes OpenSearch (derived from […]

How will pandemics and architecture fit together to help people go about their lives amidst a global health crisis? Read on to learn more.