August 2015 Archive
1891.
It’s 2015 and drawing text is still hard (engineering.eventbrite.com)
1892.
Hot Tech Startups May Have Higher Funding Hurdles (nytimes.com)
1893.
Amazon's No Outlier: The Science Behind Broken Work Cultures (fastcompany.com)
1894.
Hitchhiking Robot, Safe in Several Countries, Meets Its End in Philadelphia (nytimes.com)
1895.
The BCPL Reference Manual (1973) [pdf] (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
1896.
Using Virtual Machines to Improve Container Security with Rkt v0.8.0 (coreos.com)
1897.
Axis Mundi – A secure, resilient, distributed and open communication platform (six-pack.github.io)
1898.
Electron for the Mac App Store (saschawise.com)
1899.
Dash: A side project to learn how to make a programming language in C (dreamingofbits.com)
1900.
Views of the Tesseract (1904) (publicdomainreview.org)
1901.
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, ...Linus Torvalds (groups.google.com)
1902.
Zellige (en.wikipedia.org)
1903.
I Was an Amazon Chew Toy (theawl.com)
1904.
The Turn (1993) (theatlantic.com)
1905.
Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors (markallenthornton.com)
1906.
The Vocoder [video] (video.newyorker.com)
1907.
An Optimising BF Compiler (wilfred.me.uk)
1908.
Understanding map and apply (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
1909.
Speeding up non-vectorizable code with Cython (isaacslavitt.com)
1910.
Congratulations HN: 10M posts and comments (news.ycombinator.com)
1911.
Predicting Vulnerability Exploits with Twitter Analytics (umiacs.umd.edu)
1912.
Operational Challenges with Unikernels (morethanseven.net)
1913.
Apache Spark Creator Matei Zaharia Podcast Interview (softwareengineeringdaily.com)
1914.
Paris cafe or berlin cafe for productivity? Transport your desk in a click (hipstersound.com)
1915.
Review: ‘The Economics of Inequality,’ by Thomas Piketty (nytimes.com)
1916.
Reasons of State: Why Didn't Denmark Sell Greenland? (gwern.net)
1917.
Apple's 30% (reinventedsoftware.com)
1918.
As New York Rents Soar, Public Housing Becomes Lifelong Refuge (nytimes.com)
1919.
Java LINQ – C# LINQ examples running on Android (github.com)
1920.
Show HN: Pullbox – A dead-simple dropbox alternative using Git (github.com)