Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive
Why I am Creating a Programming Language (And You Should, Too!)If you are a frequent Hacker News visitor who is interested in programming language design, this week has probably not gone unnoticed to you: Two new programming languages were introduced: C! and *JS LLJS.
Inside a Google onsite interviewLast Friday I found myself in Google’s London HQ, talking about cool problems with a bunch of engineers. The so called “onsite interviews”. The saga started a few months ago with two phone interviews.
NO DBIn the United States, in 1920, the manufacture, sale, and importation of alcoholic beverages was prohibited by a constitutional amendment. That amendment was repealed thirteen years later. During that period of prohibition, the beer industry died.
What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?Most of the times, you don't need to understand the underlying data structures used by Redis. But a bit of knowledge helps you make CPU v/s Memory trade offs. It also helps you model your data in an efficient manner.
The Top 10 research papers in computer science by Mendeley readership.Since we recently announced our $10001 Binary Battle to promote applications built on the Mendeley API (now including PLoS as well), I decided to take a look at the data to see what people have to work with. My analysis focused on our second largest discipline, Computer Science.
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*JS : Low-Level JavaScriptAfter my talk during ConFoo on Advanced Date/Time Handling I received a question about whether the UTC-offset, together with the date/time in years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds, was enough for storing a date/time in a database and still being able to do calculations with this.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.