A Portland man appears to have a pill-sized camera stuck in his gut. That man is me... Let me explain. For the average Joe, the following statement might sound a bit peculiar: I have swallowed a pill-sized camera a number of times. You see, I have Crohn's Disease (CD) in the smal … | Continue reading
The separating of children from parents at the US southern border has created international outrage -- and lots of rhetoric from President Trump on Twitter. When Microsoft removed from its website a reference to working with ICE, the company found itself pulled into the political … | Continue reading
One of the challenges facing market leaders is that transformational trends are only obvious when it’s too late. Typically, transformation starts in seemingly disconnected industries, or as innocent offerings targeting completely different customer segments. To spot these trends … | Continue reading
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple Maps is down and has been for a few hours today, 9to5Mac reports. Users are noting on Twitter and Apple Support that the service isn't working on phones, Apple Watch or CarPlay and searches for certain places or points of interest result … | Continue reading
PCEX is a digital currency exchange platform by Panaesha Capital which will have both cryptocurrency to cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency to fiat money... | Continue reading
GnuPG CVE-2018-12020 Signature Spoof bug | Continue reading
From a report: Ever since outperforming Uber in its home base of China, speculation has mounted that ride-hailer Didi Chuxing would eventually branch out to the rest of the world. Didi's first launch in an English-speaking country comes on June 25, it was announced Thursday, when … | Continue reading
Alaska Wildlife News is an online magazine published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game | Continue reading
Promo codes for apps and games delivered to your inbox. | Continue reading
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: As Facebook's privacy debacle rages on, it's interesting to look back at Mark Zuckerberg's 2012 visit to the Facebook Moscow Hack (photos, video), at which Facebook provided training in how to access the data of app users' friends and awar … | Continue reading
Always show the subject field when replying in Gmail! | Continue reading
I recently had someone contact me asking if my PGP key was safe to use because there appears to be a user id called "Dontuseee" on it -- it's actually a malicious user id that someone else added, not signed by key.It prompted me to re-read this bug report that would be trivial to … | Continue reading
Is suicide the deadly result of a deep psychological condition — or a fleeting impulse brought on by opportunity? | Continue reading
What business are you really in? Chances are, it’s not what you think. | Continue reading
The Object-Oriented Design Principles are the core of OOP programming, but I have seen most of the Java programmers chasing design patter... | Continue reading
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Until yesterday, rare Japanese PC game Labyrinthe, developed by Caravan Interactive, was long thought to be lost forever. That is until the almost mythical third game in the already obscure Horror Tour series was found on a 67 … | Continue reading
An anonymous reader quotes InfoQ: Ron Jeffries, author, speaker, one of the creators of Extreme Programming (XP), and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001, shared a post on his blog in which he advocates that developers should abandon "Agile". The post further elaborat … | Continue reading
There's a new surprise from the Wall Street Journal's John Carreyrou (author of the Theranos expose Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup). An anonymous reader shares Vanity Fair's summary of their newest podcast interview:According to Carreyrou, Holmes is curr … | Continue reading
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:A bullish call from a Wall Street analyst capped off a rough week for Tesla short sellers, with Nomura Instinet advising clients that the electric car maker's shares could rally 42 percent over the next year. The stock rose 1.7 percent Friday and i … | Continue reading
Explains the internal architecture of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in simple terms using showing key components and how memory is updated during execution. | Continue reading
Download Cashin for free. embed code inserter wordpress plugin. Cashin is a wordpress plugin which allows you to insert or embed code in any position of your blog post. Download the zip file and upload to your plugin page. | Continue reading
New submitter Fatalis writes: Substack is a venture capital funded startup for subscription-based newsletters, and it admittedly chose its name following the advice from a Paul Graham (co-founder of Y Combinator) article to prefer names not registered in the .com zone. The same n … | Continue reading
Build docker containers inside your kubernetes cluster | Continue reading
While perusing human literature, I was hooked to this subject that is considered “spooky”, and that is framed with many warnings against trying to understand it: Quantum Physics. Perhap… | Continue reading
On May 21, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that employees can agree to: (1) arbitrate employment disputes; and (2) waive their right to resolve those disputes through clas | Continue reading
Clusterone - Scalable Machine Learning Platform for the AI first world | Continue reading
The supposed acquisition of popular code repository GitHub by Microsoft has drawn an unprecedented backlash from the developer community. Over the weekend, after Bloomberg reported that the two companies could make the announcement as soon as Monday, hundreds of developers took t … | Continue reading
sweetygo - a Light Web Framework in Go | Continue reading
Mary Meeker has published her anticipated internet trends report of 2018. This year, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner released 284 slides in rapid succession, covering everything from smartphone behavior in the U.S. to tech company competition in China. Some takea … | Continue reading
Weather Underground as part of The Weather Company, an IBM business, now offers a series of Data Packages that tap into the breadth and depth of weather data to provide current and forecast conditions, seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasts, lifestyle indices, severe weather and his … | Continue reading
Evolution has endowed us with ethical impulses. Do we know what to do with them? | Continue reading
Hacker Summer Camp is the combination of DEF CON, Black Hat USA, and BSides Las Vegas that takes place in the hot Las Vegas sun every summer, along with all the associated parties and side events. It's the largest gathering of hackers, information security professionals and enthu … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Alex Crichton’s PR adding a target for WebAssembly to the Rust compiler was merged. There are many differences between this target and the Emscripten one, but the important one for me is that it doesn’t depend on external stuff like the Emscripten SDK (which IIRC u … | Continue reading
If you have been following my previous posts on Rust’s drop order, you may want to know how it all ended. In january, I summarized my research in an RFC and submitted it for consideration of the Rust community. Today, after six months of discussion (with around 80 replies), it ha … | Continue reading
There seems to be a wide consensus that the current (unspecified) drop order in Rust is weird and arbitrary. If you are not yet convinced, you should definitely take a look at a previous post exploring the current rules.While changing the drop order seems attractive, there are ma … | Continue reading
After my previous post, I thought it would be interesting to run some experiments to determine the unspecified drop order within different constructs of Rust. After you read this, I guarantee you will understand why there is so much discussion about changing the current drop orde … | Continue reading
Some days ago I stumbled upon an old issue on Rust’s GitHub repository. While the title of the issue is “should struct fields and array elements be dropped in reverse declaration order (a la C++)”, the discussion also extends to whether the current drop order should be stabilized … | Continue reading