‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
Before Covid, Blaze Bullock, 34, was on the road one week a month as a marketing consultant in the auto industry. Then, when the country shut down, Bullock began working remotely. “Now they want me to start traveling again and visiting car dealerships,” he said. “I don’t want to do that at all.” Bullock said […]
CellChorus (YC S21) Is Hiring
Location: Houston, Texas CellChorus applies AI to “watch” thousands of videos of cell movement, interactions, survival and death. Our customers use our platform to determine the best therapies to move forward to clinical trials, to understand patient response and non-response, and to maintain consistent manufacturing. You will help some of the top immunotherapy companies in […]
Software estimation is hard – do it anyway
Estimating Software Projects: It’s well-established that estimating software projects is hard. One study by HBR found that one in six IT projects had cost overruns of over 200% and were late by almost 70%. Another study by McKinsey found that IT projects are on average 45% over budget and 7% over schedule. They found large […]
For the Love of Troff (2020) [pdf]
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Ancient weights helped create Europe’s first market more than 3k years ago
These spool-shaped weights from Tiryns, in Bronze Age Greece, weighed about the same as their counterparts in other parts of Europe and the Middle East. Ialongo et al. By Andrew CurryJun. 28, 2021 , 3:00 PM Merchants of the Bronze Age faced the same problem as merchants from London to Lisbon today: how to know […]
Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design
This review is largely in response to the article “It’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code“, and the ensuing Reddit discussion. A lot of really interesting points were brought up, but the big question that the author themself wasn’t able to answer was: “What should we recommend instead?” I believe the book we should […]
Monochromatic Portraits with GLSL
Rosenzweig – Monochromatic Portraits with GLSL 1 Feb 2019 In my Computer Graphics Art class, we were assigned a monochromatic portrait project. Given a photograph of a subject, we were to split the image into a small number of discrete sections of varying brightnesses, all of the same colour. Typically, this process would be completed […]
Launch HN: Turing College (YC W21) – Online data science school
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Apple’s DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects
I was very excited at this year’s WWDC when Apple announced DocC, their new “Documentation Compiler” tool that generates documentation from comments in your source code. Unfortunately, it’s not going to work for the majority of open source authors. A brief history Many folks are probably unaware that the company shipped and maintained a similar […]
Data notation in Clojure
Homoiconisity (code as a data structure) is one of the pillars of the Clojure language. It gives the extensibility and flexibility to the language. For example we have a power to easily extend Clojure language by creating macros since in this process we can use all available functions for the data structures. Furthermore, we can […]