When I was 12, I made the mistake of watching the Paul W. S. Anderson horror film, Event Horizon. It gave me nightmares for weeks: The movie’s title refers to an experimental spaceship that could create artificial black holes through which to travel, making interstellar trips…
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Course overview Memory leaks and dangling pointers are the main issues of the manual memory management. You delete a parent node in a linked list, forgetting to delete all its children first -- and your
Adam Sachs eats around town with hometown hero Daniel Boulud in the gutsy gastronomic capital
“The Google of the Semiconductor Industry” Founded in 2011, AnySilicon is the best way to explore, find and contact semiconductor service providers and IP vendors online. Our vision is to be the first place ASIC engineers and decision makers go to search for semiconductor…
From 1993: The magician’s deft illusions flout reality, and he rejects the notion that magic is a suitable entertainment for children.
How did the most beloved street snack from one small Mexican village become the regional phenomenon they are today?
The local market as museum.
Art has always had a strange relationship with copying.
Technology can displace the cow and save the climate. But we will need to think beyond the bun
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
The recipes, tools, and tips you need for the endlessly adaptable one-bite marvel
From the archives: Pinball is a dying art, but as it dies it has spawned a new art in its place.
How a clever Malaysian farmer has made a fortune off the durian, the pungent tropical fruit that attracts equal parts adoration and revulsion.
In a stunning series of photos, Tiago & Tania explore the beauty of Chefchaouen, a whimsical Moroccan mountain town known as the "Blue Pearl."
It remains a landmark in Berkeley, one of America’s very best bookstores and worth an epic detour to visit.
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Because some people never outgrow being bullies.
Robert R. Taylor is a name you’ve probably never heard before. But this serial entrepreneur made his mark on the world of business by coming up with several products you are almost certainly very familiar with. Today we’re going to talk about, on the surface, the most boring of…
As a struggling grad student, I happened upon a lucrative side hustle with an elite team of card-counters—and found the community I'd been looking for.
First he found God. Then he found death metal. But Father Robert Culat believes there’s no reason the two can’t co-exist.
Orbitz, the travel website, offers slightly different prices to customers who are shopping through its app or a computer, and even between two different users on the same platform. Some of this may be due to experimentation and testing, but it’s also a sign that web retailers…
LitePaper transforms the complex world of crypto, bitcoin and web3 into beautiful bundles of learning.
Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?
How times have changed since our late 80s college days. Undergrads do research online, upload assignments to a server, stream music, download affirmative sexual consent contracts, and turn to Facebook when it's time to find a ride home for the holidays.
Karen O and Danger Mouse covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and it's streaming now. The two released their Lux Prima album in March.
Baruch Vega ran a scheme that ensnared Colombian cocaine kingpins and gave him a life of luxury. Then one put a price on his head.
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
Camping equipment for the savvy off roader, overland traveler Camping grills, lantern hangers, 12 volt fridge slides and overland travel equipment.
A story of lifelong grudges, frame-ups, greed, drugs, and an incompetent conspiracy of off-duty cops.
Logic tells us that antimatter should have annihilated the Universe. So why hasn’t it?
They say that toys were once built to last. But though metal and wood didn't break quite so easily in the hands of children in the early 20th century as plastic does in the hands of their great- or great-great-grandchildren today, time still hasn't been especially kind to the…
DARPA program pushes for cheaper and simpler tools, but it may not be so easy.
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
I cannot write about Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist, and founder of the Afrobeat sound, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with any degree of objectivity, whatever that might mean.
I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these…
Six young men set out on a dead-calm sea to seek their fortunes. Suddenly they were hit by the worst gale in a century, and there wasn’t even time to shout. The article that eventually became The Perfect Storm.
Dev diaries is a development community providing daily tips and tricks about web development. Learn about how to become a better dev, and get a refreshed perspective on what it means to be a web developer. We share daily web development tips on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, &…
Excessive instruction cache misses are the kind of a performance problem that's going to appear only in larger codebases. In this article, I'm describing some ideas on how to deal with this issue.
A dispute between residents of a small island off France’s western coast and summer vacationers taps into France’s still unbroken connection to its agricultural past.
To find real solitude, you have to go out of range. But every year that’s harder to do, as America’s off-the-grid places disappear.
Google Analytics is a powerful, free web analytics platform. However, it has gaps that are better served by other tools. I'll address those gaps and tools in this post.
Here’s how to make the most of it.