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You either toe the party line or you are an enemy troll is what we are going for then. Putin is a bully and has a lot to answer for, assasinations and election meddling including. …

Talk principles when others are concerned, protect interests when it concerns them. The hypocrisy, condescension and self-righteousness of the entire western world is on display in…

An old-new paradigm of road transport, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll makes for a good read.

Could these be the drivers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22885689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886182

https://brandonsanderson.com/books/legion/legion-skin-deep/ Legion: Skin Deep is a modern-day thriller/mystery with some science fiction undertones. In this story, Stephen is taken…

Could not find a link to the actual study. Apparently its a discovery by http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/hshaw .

Don't get me wrong, I admire the swiss. But attributing a nations success to higher moral standards of individual people is crazy. The swiss might exhibit admirable qualities worth…

True. As much as a service entices us, old version and having no timeframe of when we can expect an update to a newer version made us keep our self-managed cluster on EC2.

I sense a strong dislike for Vinod Khosla the person himself in almost all the responses irrespective of his actions. Are a few incidents like the martin's beach and some statistic…

We have used Wagtail on a recent project of ours. We were looking for something lean which would allow us to define our pages easily and offer a clean interface to upload content t…

In 2015, XML is a first class citizen but JSON get a third class treatment. JSON parsing in Scala is ridiculous. http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/2l7v5u/json_parsing_i...

We used to do nginx + gunicorn for our rest services, it was not responding well beyond a point (for a given ec2 instance). We replaced that with nginx + lua (openresty module), we…