Nine Catalan political leaders and activists have been convicted to between 9 and 13 years in jail for their role in the 2017 independence referendum, found guilty of sedition and in some cases misuse of funds. Spain’s Supreme Court convicted former vice…

Money can be only a short-term motivation / Make it “better” rather than “bigger” / Figuring out “enough” / Life is one shot

Greenwich Village was once a locus for a succession of twentieth-century progressive movements fighting for workers’, women’s, civil, and gay rights. Its history is also that of longtime residents’ determined efforts to save it from the designs of new, wealthy…

Uber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of the process it began earlier this year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said to employees today…

Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends, scrubbed n00ds, trashed chiptune tracks, bomb threats, and…

🔨 Fast and idiomatic client-driven REST APIs. Contribute to dunglas/vulcain development by creating an account on GitHub.

One listed reason for raising prices was "market conditions."

A command-line benchmarking tool. Contribute to sharkdp/hyperfine development by creating an account on GitHub.

Skyline freshman Jesse Garcia admitted that he wasn’t too familiar with the game, so senior Wilver Amaya walked him through the paces, just like a good...

We’re really excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring the Rust programming language! Rust is designed for writing and maintaining fast, reliable, and efficient code. It has seen considerable uptake since its first stable release four years ago, with companies…

Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly - dtolnay/watt

Interviewed by Hansen Hsu and Marc Weber on 2019-03-15 in Mountain View, CA X8971.2019
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James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language. Growing up and attending college in Calgary, Alberta, Gosling began his…

As some 30 dancers were handed the first employee paychecks ever issued to them by the Penthouse Club one evening in early November, a wave of panic swept the popular North Beach strip club. “I opened mine in the locker room, and I was shocked,” said a former…

The journal in 1992 had concluded that Ratcliffe's study was unfit for publication as the direction of research was something which was beyond their understanding.