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Makes a lot of sense especially in light of the chaos that the state of Kansas just inflicted onto its citizens this month.

This article never takes up the cause of the minorities who are being harassed and killed on a daily basis, but spends a lot of time whining about having to show even a modicum of …

FWIW we currently have this in the AV1 codec which is royalty-free and has a better quality/size ratio than h264.

In fighting games we still have to worry about _network_ latency, as high ping will cause frequent rollbacks. A more accurate way to think about it is that rollback netcode enables…

In my city we can buy milk in glass bottles for a $2 deposit that’s credited when the bottles are returned to the place of purchase. This program is available at virtually every ma…

"Concurrency primitives" here is probably referring to Java's fundamental mutex system as used with `synchronized`, `wait()`, and `notify()`. Java's thread pools and concurrent dat…

This article makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims and is very light on actual data. For example a blatant assertion like "Amazon’s Kindle and other methods of online reading have …

This feels like a natural extension of stories, where previously it was a sequence of short videos shot by your friends, now it's a sequence of slightly longer videos shot by a pro…

Technically, a "pump and dump" is the opposite of what's being described here. This would be a "poop and scoop". http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poopandscoop.asp

Theodore Ts'o wrote about a similar Firefox issue back in 2009: https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/

I'm not sure it's very constructive to explain the editor wars in a short, non-technical blog post. This article provides little useful technical information and a lot of extraneou…