Orbáns Kleptokraten | Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2015/januar/orbans-kleptokraten

Orbáns Kleptokraten | Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/12/18/if-apple-was-a-worker-cooperative-each-employee-would-earn-at-least-403k/

If Apple Were A Worker Cooperative, Each Employee Would Earn At Least $403K

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.4, the latest version of the world's leading open source database system. This release adds many new features which enhance PostgreSQL's flexibility, scalability and performance for many different types of database users, including improvements to JSON support, replication and index performance.

PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.4 Increases Flexibility, Scalability and Performance

Lessons From A Silicon Valley Job Search | Robert Heaton
https://robertheaton.com/2014/03/07/lessons-from-a-silicon-valley-job-search/

Lessons From A Silicon Valley Job Search | Robert Heaton

Why Apple before Android? | X-Plane Developer
https://developer.x-plane.com/2014/12/why-apple-before-android/

Why Apple before Android?

In den iranischen Großstädten, vor allem in der Hauptstadt Teheran, wächst die Zahl junger Paare, die ohne Trauschein zusammenleben. Vor allem gebildete Frauen…

Iran: Eine „Generation der Bastarde“ – Transparency for Iran

Auf Facebook hat Pegida Zehntausende Anhänger. Sind die alle dumm? Sicher nicht. Aber genau das ist Teil des Problems.
Pegida ist eines der bisher wenigen…

Pegida: Nichts sehen, nichts hören, viel sagen - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Sure, smartphones and tablets get all the press, and deservedly so. But if you place the original mainstream eInk device from 2007, the Amazon Kindle, side by…

The Evolution of eInk

When we started the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter project, our goal was to create the first multi-player space combat simulator to be playable over the Internet. There were several major problems that we had to be overcome to accomplish this goal, not the least of which was the Internet itself. I will review the problems we faced, the approach we took, and the results we achieved. I hope the lessons I learned will prove to be valuable to those who read this paper.

What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)

This is part 2 of Monads: Your App As A Function . In the previous post we started looking at monads, and summarized that their core purpose is to transport…

Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 2 - mttkay here.

A paper by Twitter’s Marius Eriksen ( “Your server as a function” ), which introduces the key concepts behind Finagle is what made me choose the title for this…

Monads: Your App As A Function, Part 1 - mttkay here.

Last November I found myself at Futurice in London starting a challenging project that seemed to be the perfect candidate for a more immersive reactive system.…

Top 7 Tips for RxJava on Android — Futurice

“Slow,” a word no one ever wants to see associated with their app. Delay and lag of as little as 100–200 milliseconds will be perceived by users as poor, slow…

Getting Groovy With Reactive Android

(by @andrestaltz)
So you’re curious in learning this new thing called (Functional) Reactive Programming (FRP).
Learning it is hard, even harder by the lack of…

staltz/introrx.md

Imagine if your government put a price tag on your privacy, acquiring shadowy surveillance technology that exploited your personal vulnerabilities. Earlier…

The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers

Ceylon is a marvelous new JVM language from Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate. It enters a crowded field -- ever since Martin Odersky's pioneering Scala…

Java, Scala, Ceylon: Evolution in the JVM Petri Dish | DZone

Sieht man ausnahmsweise vom Hafen ab, dann ist Hamburg in diesen Jahren längst kein Tor zur Welt mehr. Jedenfalls nicht, wenn man das World Wide Web als…

Hamburg wird zur WLAN-Hauptstadt

By FARHAD MANJOO via NYT Technology

Luxe Valet Eliminates the Headache of Finding a Parking Spot

Android has gone through quite a few changes during its short 6 years of life. The Android that drives most of the world's smartphones of today would be almost…

Jack And Jill Are Google's New Compilers For Android App Developers

I learned test-driven development from Kent Beck’s book Test-Driven Development By Example . It’s an excellent introduction that whets the appetite for one of…

More Typing, Less Testing: TDD with Static Types

In early 2013, researchers exposed some unsettling risks stemming from Android-based password managers. In a paper titled “Hey, You, Get Off of My Clipboard,”…

Using a password manager on Android? It may be wide open to sniffing attacks

This is part of the book Category Theory for Programmers. The previous instalment was Category: The Essence of Composition . The category of types and functions…

Types and Functions

Not long ago, Stephen Bradley, a New York tech entrepreneur, was looking to expand his company, AuthorBee, which aggregates tweets and Instagram posts and puts…

The Programmer’s Price

Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went…

Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life - IEEE Spectrum

Launching a new app in the mobile age is hard. If you want to reach a wide audience, you usually have to make your client three times at minimum: once for…

How Google Inbox shares 70% of its code across Android, iOS, and the Web | Ars Technica