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We Can't Send Email More Than 500 Miles
- Trey Harris tl;dr: Trey gets a call from the Chairman of The Statistics Department at the college campus he was working at and is told: "we can't send mail more than 500 miles."featured in #191
Are We *Really* Engineers? (Video)
- Hillel Wayne tl;dr: Hillel talked to people who worked as both a software and a traditional engineer, learning 3 things: "we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn."featured in #189
Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
- Erica Klarreich tl;dr: "It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway."featured in #183
10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
- Hillel Wayne tl;dr: Given that programming languages cognates, it's a starting to point to see which languages influenced others.featured in #178
The Unexpected Google Wide Domain Check Bypass
- David Schütz tl;dr: Sometimes it pays to go down the rabbit hole. A story of David trying to bypass a URL validation and finding a bug in Google's common JS library.featured in #176
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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since The 1990s
- Gwern Branwen tl;dr: How technology has dramatically improved ordinary aspects of Gwern's life over the last the 30 years.featured in #175
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The Mind At Work: Guido Van Rossum On How Python Makes Thinking In Code Easier
- Anthony Wing Kosner tl;dr: Inspiration behind Python was largely visual. There is a "quietness and simplicity of design" that makes it easier to see what’s going on. It's also why it's popular amongst amateurs and beginners.featured in #163