A Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker, had no trouble raising his fists to get his way. The neighborhood boys weren’t much better. One afternoon in 1935, they chased him through the streets until he ducked into the local library […]
Golang: Know Your ‘Nil’
Posted on March 29, 2017 In Golang, nil is an interesting value. You may be familiar with Go’s philosophy of making the “zero value” meaningful. Uninitialized variables and fields are set to the zero value. For example, if you have a uninitialized variable of an integer type, its value will always default to 0. An […]
Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation
Stretch is designed to make warehouse operations safer and more efficient Waltham, MA – March 29, 2021 – Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics, has revealed Stretch, its new box-moving robot designed to support the growing demand for flexible automation solutions in the logistics industry. This debut marks the company’s official entrance into […]
Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Today, we are launching one of most requested features – Storage! When you sign up for Supabase, you get a Postgres database with realtime subscriptions, user management, auto-generated APIs and now a scalable object store. These services integrate very well with each other and you don’t need to sign up for yet another service just […]
Voltswagen of America
Mar 30, 2021 U.S. name change from Volkswagen of America to Voltswagen of America beginsMay 2021 Rebranding to include revised name, brand guidelines and VW.com design Herndon, VA, March 30, 2021 – V.2 —Today, Volkswagen Group of America, is unveiling the official change of its U.S. brand name from Volkswagen of America to Voltswagen of […]
Money and Investing (2015)
Money, Money, Money Money, Money, Money (and Investing) part of materialism by Philip Greenspun; updated July 2015 Site Home : Materialism : One Article “When young people ask me about the law as a career,” said one litigator, “I tell them that in this country whom they choose to have sex with and where they […]
Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf
March 30, 2021 Working in a shell usually involves executing the same set of commands again and again; what changes is the order in which the commands are executed, and the parameters that are passed to the command. One way to improve shell workflows is finding patterns in the execution order of commands and extracting […]
Man Built a $188M Fortune Investing in Stocks Then Donated It to Charity
Jack MacDonald was a frugal attorney who wanted to build a big net worth to give to charity. He went a little far for my taste – having holes in his clothes so he could put more money to work to give to charity whereas I’m never going to give up the custom made dress […]
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division […]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Cupertino, California Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format. Free for all developers, WWDC21 will offer unique insight into the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Building on the record-breaking participation and learnings from last year’s online conference, WWDC21 is […]