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Agents of the Food and Drug Administration know better than anyone else just how bad scientific misbehavior can get. Reading the…

The Food and Drug Administration Covers Up Evidence of Fraud, Fabrication, and Scientific Misconduct

Wie kann es sein, dass ein Drittel der Jurastudenten an einer deutschen Uni die Todesstrafe befürwortet? Der Kriminologe Franz Streng hat die Zahlen erhoben und…

Jura-Studenten und die Todesstrafe: Woher kommt diese Grausamkeit, Herr Streng? - SPIEGEL ONLINE

DAGGER 2 - A New Type of dependency injection via IFTTT

Facebook ist sehr bemüht, einem immer wieder Gruppen, Seiten und potenzielle neue Freunde vorzuschlagen, von denen es denkt, sie könnten zu einem passen. Allzu oft liegt der zugrundeliegende Algorithmus jedoch mit seiner Intention komplett daneben, denn er weiss z.B. nicht, ob man sich aus kontroversem oder wohlwollendem Interesse mit bestimmten Schlagworten beschäftigt hat. So schlug mir das System kürzlich vor, einer Gruppe mit dem schönen Namen “Impfen…NEIN danke!!!!!” [sic!] beizutreten.

Besuch bei den Impfgegnern • schockfaktor.de

Ben Christensen - "Functional Reactive Programming with RxJava" via IFTTT

I was speaking at a conference last year on the topics of DevOps, Configuration as Code, and Continuous Delivery and used the following story to demonstrate the…

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale

The term “Microservice Architecture” has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition of this architectural style, there are certain common characteristics around organization around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence in the endpoints, and decentralized control of languages and data.

Microservices

Edsger Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt?
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html

Edsger Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that might hurt?

Partition with Game of Thrones Pugs - Squid's Blog
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2015/01/26/partition-with-game-of-thrones-pugs/

Partition with Game of Thrones Pugs - Squid's Blog

The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Likes React

In NRW soll eine Teststrecke für autonomes Fahren entstehen. Das teilte Verkehrsminister Michael Groschek (SPD) auf Anfrage der Rheinischen Post mit. Zuvor…

Autobahn: Ruhrgebiet soll Testgebiet für autonomes Fahren werden

Die Technologie soll die Sicherheit von Software erhöhen. Indem zwei aus demselben Quellcode erzeugte Binärpakete Byte für Byte identisch sind, lässt sie ihre…

Debian bringt Reproducible Builds voran

Statically-typed, highly-interoperable augmentation to the Java language.
Author: @JakeWhartonCreated: 2015-01-20Updated: 2015-01-26
Note: This is a copy (and…

Using Project Kotlin for Android

Ernst Stuhlinger (1913-2008) Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe,…

Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa

This post originally appeared as a gist . Since then, the development of Promises/A+ has made its emphasis on the Promises/A spec seem somewhat outdated.…

You're Missing the Point of Promises

With TypeScript 1.3 out the door, we’re focused on adding more type system and ECMAScript 6 features to TypeScript. Let’s take a quick look at some of the new…

TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more

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)