One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with…

In this article, we explore the peculiarities of enterprise user experience design (enterprise UX) through the lens of the “Don’t make me think” principle.

Born 200 years ago, Karl Marx’s patron and collaborator is a study in contradiction between socialist ideals and a life devoted to luxury.

Test your model against future real market data

The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American Medical Association is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation, designed from the ground up to enrich…

10 fictional profiles were created on OKCupid with the same profiles but different photos to test how online dating is different for men than women.

An algorithm that allows estimating quantile values without storing values

On the absence of information in today’s media. How polarization is destroying the function of the press in a democracy.

These are the words used by the user holdagold on reddit to describe their experience with the new Apple Silicon M1 Macbook Air. Rarely does a product leave people effusing to the extent Apple Silicon M1 has done this week.

Internet speeds in the US were more than twice as fast as Europe's in 2021.

New paper out by Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, me, Eric Drexler and @mbbonsall about how the timing of evolutionary transitions on Earth suggests intelligent life is rare: https://t.co/Kjd9zddqXh

As the volume and complexity of your data processing pipelines increase, you can simplify the overall process by decomposing it into a series of smaller tasks and coordinate the execution of these tasks as part of a workflow. To do so, many developers and…

Development virtual machines offer the ideal foundation for lightweight, low-traffic environments - without draining your budget. Ideal for building a prototype, testing new features, or deploying internal applications.

Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams

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A coworker and I were looking at an application today that, like so many other modern web applications, offers a RESTful API with JSON being used for serialization of requests/responses. She noted that the application didn’t include any sort of CSRF token…