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Waze is one of the preferred navigation apps for many due to its live community-driven traffic incident information — but what if the app warned you where a crash could likely occur? A new beta version of the Google-owned app, … Read more
The 2022 StackOverflow developer survey shows that more developers use Linux than Mac. And while Windows remains the most used platform with developers overall it’s not by as much as you may think. The traditional annual survey from developer resource … Read more
> Have you bought something that you had to scrap and build yourself anyways? Yes, but that hasn’t meant it was a mistake — ‘buy-then-build’ can be a great strategy. Often the ‘then-build’ never happens, but going into a decision … Read more
You may also like my similar app for the iOS Lock Screen. This can be a useful tool to help you focus on a single task. Some examples of what you could write: Eat more healthily Exercise Reply to Sarah’s … Read more
Monique Robroek once had such crippling arthritis that, even with the best available medications, she struggled to walk across a room. But thanks to an electronic implant fitted under her skin, she managed to wean herself off all her drugs … Read more
Imagine messaging an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot about a missing package and getting the response that it would be “delighted” to help. Once the bot creates the new order, they say they are “happy” to resolve the issue. After, you … Read more
The December holiday plans of IT workers were thrown into disarray last year after the disclosure of a major bug in the widely-used Log4j tool. The discovery led to months of feverish activity to patch the vulnerability, but a year … Read more
Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new … Read more
If you look at SQLite’s EXPLAIN output, you sometimes may notice something unusual if you’re coming from other SQL databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL. Here’s an example: sqlite> create table foo (a); sqlite> create table bar (b, a); sqlite> explain … Read more
December 28, 2022 Tags: book What does the math tell us about how many job applicants we should look at before hiring one? While onboarding our new employees, how can ideas from the TCP networking protocol help us to identify … Read more