Update (June 7, 2014): We recently learned that Bill Watterson has been collaborating with Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis on some brand new comics . Last year we were lucky enough to land

In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise

The self-pipe trick is a cool Unix hack. It’s a great example of combining some simple building blocks into a reliable solution. This article will help you wrap your head around it, building up an understanding of Unix signals, pipes, and IO multiplexing in the process. Recently I was spelunking…

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-god-argument

Here’s the full text of a piece I wrote for The Magazine a few months ago. I really enjoyed writing it, and would like to thank Marco once again for publishing it there. If you haven’t checked out The

http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/03/05/TheStartUpTrap.html

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-issue-means-for-your-startup/

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/

Something that has struck me funny recently surrounds the traditional notion of availability of web applications. With respect to its relationship to revenue, to infrastructure and application behavio

http://dandreamsofcoding.com/2013/01/22/what-do-technical-managers-do-anyway/

http://opencredo.com/blog/a-dive-into-salt-stack

http://gigaom.com/2013/01/19/devops-complexity-and-anti-fragility-in-it-risk-and-anti-fragility/

http://blog.davidtate.org/2013/01/companies-that-support-remote-workers-win-against-those-that-dont/

If there’s anything people are good at, it’s retrofitting events with a coherent narrative. Even, or maybe especially, when the ultimate causes of past events are the forces of chance. If you look clo

http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/sci-tech/2012/12/brian-cox-and-robin-ince-politicians-must-not-elevate-mere-opinion-over-sc

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/10/3743350/verge-at-work-backing-up-your-brain-evernote

http://24ways.org/2012/think-first-code-later/

http://massivegreatness.com/neutral-or-neutered

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/15/david_simon_medias_sex_obsession_is_dangerous_destructive/

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/?/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/?/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&mobile.htmlprint&mobile.html

http://nathanbarry.com/generate-revenue-web-application-today/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/11/13/the-key-to-science-and-life-is-being-wrong/

http://thecodist.com/article/what_programmers_want_is_less_stupid_and_more_programming

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/science-on-the-brink-of-death

Oct 25, 2012 Why Coding Style Matters About The Author Nicholas C. Zakas is a principal architect at Box, as well as an author and speaker. He worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was fron