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Note: I’m writing this as a former employee (as of June 2021) of Autodesk. My views are entirely my own, based on my recollections and…

Countrywide scheme is flourishing after being set up to reverse a 75% decline in insect populations

We’ve been hovering close to 100% for a while now but, with the staging-next merge a few days ago, it’s finally happened: https://r13y.com/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20210620180034/https://r13y.com/) If I’ve done everything correctly, the 21.05 ISO also…

What are they, how do they work, and are they fast yet?

Written by Doug McConnell A jury recently acquitted several activists charged with causing £25,000 worth of damage to Shell's HQ in London despite the defendants admitting that they caused the damage and the judge informing the jury that the defendants had…

I am old enough to remember the publication of the Strawman, Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, and Steelman specifications for a new computer language in the mid 1970s — the language that became Ada. A few years later I read C. A. R. Hoare's Turing Award speech…

Docker Inc. started like many startups with engineers working from a single location. For us, this was in the Bay Area in the US. We were very office-centric, so the natural way to increase diversity and to get engineers from different cultures to work together…

I was not planning to write anything today, but when I opened my online UK newspaper I discovered that it was Father’s Day. Eight people were telling the story of their relationships with their fathers, and their collective efforts inspired me to do the same.…

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's government plans to encourage firms to let their employees choose to work four days a week instead of five, aiming to improve

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We should have policies to make the poor less poor. Unfortunately, policies explicitly aimed at trying to make the poor less poor typica...

USC’s Emily Nix wants to excite her economics students this fall. With less than $60 in materials, she cooked up this online teaching hack.

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As definitions of sexuality change and expand, women’s orientations are becoming less rigid than men's. Why?