The White Darkneww – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica

The White Darkneww – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica

\n\n\t\t\tThe man, whose name was Henry Worsley, consulted a G.P.S. device to determine precisely where he was. \n\n\t\t\tWorsley’s sled—which, at the outset, weighed three hundred and twenty-five pounds, nearly double his own weight—was attached to a harness around his waist, and to drag it across the ice he wore cross-country skis and pushed forward with poles in each hand. One evening, two weeks into his journey, he said:\n\n\n\t\t\tI overslept a little this morning, which, actually, I was grateful for, as the previous forty-eight hours’ labor has been hugely draining.

Source: www.newyorker.com

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight

LightSail 2 doesn’t have solar-powered engines, or use solar energy or heat for some secondary purpose; it will literally be propelled by the physical force of photons hitting its immense shiny sail. “In terms of the amount of force that solar pressure is going to exert on us, it’s on the micronewton level,” said LightSail project manager Dave Spencer. Bruce Betts, chief scientist for LightSail, chimed in as well, to make the numbers a bit more relatable: “The total force on the sail is approximately equal to the weight of a house fly on your hand on Earth.”

Source: techcrunch.com

Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review

Snake Venom Use as a Substitute for Opioids: A Case Report and Review

The snake bite was associated with jerky movements of the body, blurring of vision, and unresponsiveness, i.e. “blackout” as per the patient for 1 h. However, after waking up he experienced a heightened arousal and sense of well-being, which lasted for 3–4 weeks, which according to the patient was more intense that the state of high experienced till that time with any dose of alcohol or opioids. Over the period, his use of opioids and alcohol reduced and most of use of these would be seen after 1–2 weeks of snake bite. On exploration, patient further disclosed that subjecting self to snake bite was common in his ethnic community (Northwestern part of Rajasthan, India), either as a substitute to other substances of abuse, or is used concomitantly with other substances to experience the feeling of ecstasy.

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Capstone, a Tablet for Thinking

Capstone, a Tablet for Thinking

The prototype is built around a two-step creative process where the user first collects raw material on their desktop computer and later does their thinking on a tablet with stylus. Capstone’s interface brings together freeform arrangement of media cards (images, text, web clippings, PDFs) and inking (sketches, diagrams, handwritten text, other annotations) in the same space. The user can mirror a card by “pinning” down the card with one finger and dragging out with the stylus:

That covers Capstone’s features supporting the collection and thinking steps of the creative process.

Source: www.inkandswitch.com

Haskell Fan Site

Haskell Fan Site

, just type:

In other words, I used to think functional programming languages were only of theoretical interest because they frowned upon side effects. Haskell is the first widespread language to follow all three laws. In other words, Haskell’s greatest contribution is not that it does away with side effects (such a language is indeed useless), but rather that it constitutionally separates pure and impure functions without encumbering the syntax of either.

Source: www-cs-students.stanford.edu

GNU APL 1.8

GNU APL 1.8

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GNU APL 1.8 Released

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The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

Instead, VB became famous for a legendary feature called edit-and-continue, which allowed developers to run their programs, find problems, fix them, and then keep going with the new code. By the release of VB 6 — the last version of classic Visual Basic — it was estimated that there were ten times more coders writing in VB than in the unforgiving C++ language. It wasn’t long before a group of influential VB developers had christened Microsoft’s new programming environment as VB.Fred to emphasize that, whatever it was, this new language wasn’t Visual Basic.

Source: medium.com

Two years of postmarketOS

Two years of postmarketOS

Video of music playing from the earphone When the offending code was commented out, the device would finally boot up to the initramfs (and of course crash there at some point). Pretty much everything besides audio has been working one year ago, with comparatively few small patches on top of the 4.17-rc3 kernel instead of the nearly two million lines of added code in the 3.4-based downstream kernel. Moreover @ryang2678’s patches allow running a slightly patched 5.0 mainline kernel and use the grate free software userspace driver to get accelerated graphics with its Tegra 3 SoC.

Source: postmarketos.org

Why AMP for email is bad

Why AMP for email is bad

AMP in an email service makes the emails ‘dynamic’, at least that’s what Google says. Basically AMP is putting apps into an email to offer dynamic content: advertisements, shops, questionnaires, and similar content that can be interacted with. But instead of making encrypted email easy in Gmail, Google is again pushing for advertisement options.

Source: tutanota.com

I’m Not a Good Web Developer, I’m Just Good at Googling Things

I’m Not a Good Web Developer, I’m Just Good at Googling Things

Being a good
web developer means you know how to search exactly for what you’re looking for
and being able to differentiate between different resources that Google claims
have the answer to your question. Part of being a good
web development is being able to assimilate lots of information, combine it and put it towards
your problem to solve it in an elegant and understandable way for your future self
and other web developers on the project. Conclusion

The things I have found that have helped me develop most as a web developer over the years
is being able to know how to find what I’m looking for, being able to parse what I’m reading,
and make conclusions off of the information I’m taking in.

Source: www.dev-diaries.com