Is ‘No tax on tips’ a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
Tipping has always been a controversial subject in the US. Imported from Europe and popularized by some accounts after the fall of slavery to reinforce racial wage disparities, the practice comes freighted with historic baggage. Nor is it overly popular with consumers. Since the pandemic, 72% of US adults say tipping is expected in more […]
Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed
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Building Bubbletea Programs
0. Intro In the words of its authors Bubble Tea is a “powerful little TUI framework” for Go. It may be little but I found it had a steep learning curve before I could get truly comfortable with its power. I spent many a late night wrangling with broken layouts and unresponsive keys before learning […]
The Myth of the Coder and Programmer
It is a stock element in narratives of 1950s computing to distinguish between programmers and coders, the latter considered a “lowly technician” doing the routine job of converting flowcharts or pseudo-instructions into coded machine instructions (for example, see Campbell-Kelly et al.4 and Ensmenger7). This division of labor between coders and programmers is often overlaid with […]
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
A “time capsule” has been discovered at London’s National Gallery, buried deep in a column in the foyer of the Sainsbury Wing. It is a letter recording that one of the wing’s funders, John Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover), believed the architects had committed a serious “mistake”. The 1990 letter, typed on Sainsbury’s supermarket […]
Fortran Bug Urban Legend
SS > factoids > programming languages > Fortran bug Urban Legend home > factoids > programming languages > Fortran bug Urban Legend In an earlier version of my Fortran language entry , I repeated the “well-known” Fortran bug that lost a spacecraft: If a variable is not declared, it is implicitly given a type based […]
Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 2: Ahead-of-Time vs. JIT
This is a continuation of my “fast JS on Wasm” series; the first post covered PBL, a portable interpreter that supports inline caches, this post adds ahead-of-time compilation, and the final post will discuss the details of that ahead-of-time compilation. Please read the first post first for useful context! The most popular programming language in […]
Six Things I Know for Sure About Marketing to Engineers
Six Things I Know For Sure About Marketing To Engineers Six Things I Know For Sure About Marketing To EngineersBy Robert W. Bly I am a chemical engineer and have been writing copy designed to sell products and services to engineers for 10 years. Heres what I know about appealing to this special audience: 1. […]
Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
Eazel Industry Software development Founded August 1999 in Mountain View, California Founder Andy Hertzfeld Defunct May 15, 2001 Fate Defunct Headquarters Mountain View, California , United States Key people Andy Hertzfeld, Bud Tribble, Mike Boich, Darin Adler, Bart Decrem, Susan Kare Number of employees 75 (2001) Website Eazel.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 10, 2000) Eazel was […]
New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’
Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States […]