July 2019 Archive
1591.
We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video] (youtube.com)
1592.
Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf] (github.com)
1593.
Film of Inside the Ilford Factory to See How B&W Film Is Made (petapixel.com)
1594.
The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (2012) [pdf] (dreamsongs.com)
1595.
Raytracer.jl: A Differentiable Renderer That Supports Parameter Optimization [pdf] (github.com)
1596.
Where the Bodies Are Buried (texasobserver.org)
1597.
Arpanet, Part 3: The Subnet (technicshistory.wordpress.com)
1598.
Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?
1599.
The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes (newyorker.com)
1600.
Why I No Longer Want to Write Software for Companies That I Don't Own
1601.
Show HN: Sinuous – Small, fast, reactive UI library (github.com)
1602.
Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever (arstechnica.com)
1603.
Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator (twitter.com)
1604.
Coroutines: A Million Stacks (2017) (mikemarcin.com)
1605.
Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014) (arstechnica.com)
1606.
Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: from Ugaritic to Linear B (arxiv.org)
1607.
China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas (wsj.com)
1608.
Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails (nytimes.com)
1609.
Delivery apps like DoorDash are using tips to pay workers’ wages (theverge.com)
1610.
Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
1611.
Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers (trackthis.link)
1612.
My Journey from Free Market Ideologue, Part 5: Commercial Development (strongtowns.org)
1613.
Too Unique to Hide (cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk)
1614.
Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget (canny.io)
1615.
The Fascinating Bromance Between Steve Jobs and Ross Perot (2018) (cake.co)
1616.
China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families (bbc.co.uk)
1617.
In Order to Become More Competitive We've Decided To Make Your Job Worse (mcsweeneys.net)
1618.
India's oldest yogini: V Nanammal, 98 (qz.com)
1619.
As Climate Changes, Taxpayers Will Shoulder Larger U.S. Payouts to Farmers (npr.org)
1620.
Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014) (susam.in)