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Perhaps it reminds you of Screeps because of what the author wrote in the third paragraph of the submission.

Specific technology choices aside, this was an incredible write-up of their migration process: thorough, organized, readable prose about a technical topic. It is helpful to read ho…

The link to the actual vote results [0] states that the electorate was "CPython core developers with a known email-address." [0] https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-vote…

I'd like to point out that my comment mostly referred to the article's original title, which was click-bait referencing GitLab's "secret" to multi-million dollar "success." Spoiler…

Skipping over the little annoying facts that fully remote work is not some secret strategy, and that no Fortune 500 company (as an index of success) is 100% remote, let's just do a…

Qualtrics is pretty popular among their initial target audience mentioned in the article: academics. Among academic survey shops this product is the definite go-to. I imagine, base…

What? This is entirely untrue, and I feel bad that you had a teacher or reading experience that did not focus on how much inner life, motivation, and emotion are in this poem. I ha…

Considering that miniature books have been a part of literary and publishing history since at least the 16th century, I doubt this modern rehash will drastically change reading any…

They state that the cumulative valuation of these 100 companies is $100+ billion, of which $81+ billion comes from the top 5 companies, and $95+ billion comes from the top 10. Also…

The difference is two-fold: actively planting a fake story means that first, the espionage is fake and thus no real intelligence can be gathered, so the only benefit is the hypothe…

But the effect of that would be to cause massive distrust of Chinese suppliers and cause a shift away from electronics being produced there. IC and cyber experts generally identify…

> Or at least have testimonies by employees in these company The original article directly addressed this: " The companies’ denials are countered by six current and former senior n…

> "Not as clickbaity though...." Not as accurate, either, given that the title of the paper is "Get Billions and Billions of Correct Digits of pi from a Wrong Formula," and it was …

This is an old investing strategy summarized by Rothschild in the anecdote, "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." I think that maxim captures the crass greed of t…

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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Jim Cramer created the acronym to name these four companies as high-performing tech stocks years ago [0]. But now, as in the above usage, it is m…

This is awesome work, and kudos to Tang, but I am also really impressed with how his advisor, Scott Aaronson, seems to have so selflessly supported his research and given him full …

At PyCon in Cleveland this year Amjith Ramanujam did a presentation on "how Netflix does failovers in 7 minutes flat" [0]. Worth a watch/listen for anyone interested in what their …

> This was likely inspired by an event preceding the Nanking Massacre There is about no likelihood that Tolkien heard about a despicable war crime committed by an Axis power, invol…

This timeline is wonderful: https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/hypetime.htm The IPO of Yahoo, the creation of MSNBC.

UVA is doing some great focused work in certain CS fields. Their student team recently won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in their first year competing [0]. [0] …