February 2016 Archive
1801.
Announcing the Twitter Trust and Safety Council (blog.twitter.com)
1802.
Banned by the Publisher (nickcolebooks.com)
1803.
Austin: No Place to Go but Up (medium.com)
1804.
The Sad State of C Strings (symas.com)
1805.
Why I don't use ggplot2 (simplystatistics.org)
1806.
Are Airlines Overcharging for Fuel? (himynamesdave.com)
1807.
Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work? (bbc.co.uk)
1808.
On Stapledon's “Last and First Men” (1986) (dpuadweb.depauw.edu)
1809.
Pentium? Core i5? Core i7? Making sense of Intel’s convoluted CPU lineup (arstechnica.com)
1810.
Introduction to the Dial Telephone (1936) [video] (youtube.com)
1811.
How the Presidential Candidates Track Their Supporters (indicative.com)
1812.
The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Build Real-Time OS for IoT Devices (linuxfoundation.org)
1813.
Using EMET to Disable EMET (fireeye.com)
1814.
Japanese Insect Literature (japantimes.co.jp)
1815.
A visual history of the future of cities (2014) [pdf] (gov.uk)
1816.
The ARM1 processor's flags, reverse engineered (righto.com)
1817.
Hardware and Software Architecture of the Machine [video] (youtube.com)
1818.
Messy Structs/Classes in a Functional Style (prog21.dadgum.com)
1819.
What being a journalist in the Middle East taught me about how censorship works (vox.com)
1820.
Functoria, a library to create arbitrary MirageOS-like DSLs (mirage.io)
1821.
The Architecture of Algolia’s Distributed Search Network (2015) (highscalability.com)
1822.
Ask HN: What's your #1 pain point when asking for a raise?
1823.
Ask HN: Why is Quora popular all of a sudden?
1824.
Three to become first European network to block ads (irishtimes.com)
1825.
Jeb spent $2845 per vote in Iowa (braid.io)
1826.
'Five-dimensional' glass discs could store data for billions of years (independent.co.uk)
1827.
IBM Launches New Mainframe with Focus on Security and Hybrid Cloud (techcrunch.com)
1828.
GPS Tracking Down to the Centimeter (ucrtoday.ucr.edu)
1829.
NUID – An entropy friendly and highly performant unique identifier generator (github.com)
1830.
How to Write the History of Science? (resobscura.blogspot.com)