Donald Knuth at his home in Stanford, Calif. He is a notorious perfectionist and has offered to pay a reward to anyone who finds a mistake in any of his books. Credit Brian Flaherty for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index Profiles in science Donald Knuth, master of algorithms,…

About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running …More about VitalyFriedman … July 5, 2017 Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’…

What heiroglyphics, emoji, and stickers have in common. Mack Flavelle Follow Mar 5, 2017 · 10 min read The oldest written language in the world didn’t have an alphabet. When written language began, it wasn’t used to ‘sound out’ words the way many writing systems do today; instead, each symbol…

On October 17th, Microsoft’s Edge browser shipped its implementation of CSS Grid. This is a milestone for a number of reasons. First, it means that all major browsers now support this incredible layout tool. Second, it means that all major browsers rolled out their implementations in a single…

Le mot économie se voit rarement associé à celui d’imaginaire. Pourtant, le domaine n’a pas été épargné par les folles spéculations. Ainsi, au cours des dernières décennies, on a pu voir, derrière un phénomène comme le bitcoin, se développer tout un ensemble de thèmes futuristes. La nouvelle monnaie…

Vaidehi Joshi Oct 24, 2017 · 17 min read Less repetition, more dynamic programming! O ne of the running themes throughout this series has been the idea of making large, complex problems, which at first may seem super intimidating, feel so much more approachable. If we want to get really meta about…

How Showbiz Swallowed Democracy Is anyone entertaining enough to beat Trump? As we enter the heart of the 2020 campaign, that’s the only question that matters.

Pourquoi se lancer dans l’entreprise folle de créer une langue de toute pièce ? Cet étrange passe-temps peut avoir des motivations philosophiques, voire politiques (comme ce fut le cas avec l’espéranto)… mais depuis l’avènement de la fantasy, des jeux de rôles, ce peut être aussi une pure activité…

Intercom is a quietly MASSIVE hit: 17,000+ paying customers $50+ million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) Investments from the “who’s who” of investors (including Mark Zuckerberg, Jason Fried, and Jack Dorsey) Today, I’m going to show you exactly how Intercom has grown from $0 to $50 million — and…

Relative positions of distant spacecraft. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science…

It is essential for our designs to show well-organized information, so the user can understand easily what is shown. It is a key to providing good UX. Among many ways of showing data, one has stood the test of time and proves to be efficient even today. It is called “Five Hat Racks”. The concept of…

Dave Feldman Jun 20, 2017 · 6 min read Designers have spent the last twenty years trying to justify their discipline to the very teams that hire them. Maybe it’s time to stop. I got into tech because of the opportunity to create useful, usable, sometimes delightful products for people — and because…

Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here . And here’s a G-rated version of the post , appropriate for all ages. _______________________ Last month, I got a phone call. Okay maybe that’s not exactly how it happened, and maybe…

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a new way to turn almost any surface into a touchpad with just a little conductive spray paint. The system, called Electrick, uses a technique called “electric field tomography.” Created by CMU Ph.D. student Yang Zhang, Electrick uses small…

I n one way, Jackson Pollock’s mathematics was ahead of its time. When the reclusive artist poured paint from cans onto vast canvases laid out across the floor of his barn in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he created splatters of paint that seemed completely random. Some interpretations saw them as…

You may have noticed that we’re sporting a new look today. We launched this update today as part of a series of changes supporting our core mission: Make developers’ lives better. In the past year, we fully integrated our by-developers, for-developers Jobs product. We added a whole new content type…

Noam Scheiber ( @noamscheiber ) pour le New York Times vient de lancer un autre pavé dans la mare des nombreuses difficultés que connaît actuellement Uber (après notamment les questions autour de Greyball que nous évoquions hier ), en montrant comment l’entreprise – ainsi que son grand concurrent…

There’s a tool in CSS that you might not have heard of yet. It’s powerful. It’s been there for a while. And it’ll likely become one of your favorite new things about CSS. Behold, the @supports rule. Also known as Feature Queries . With @supports , you can write a small test in your CSS to see…

Erik D. Kennedy Jan 18, 2017 · 11 min read Being pretty self-taught as far as UI design goes, I’ve always wondered why so many articles and books talk about color theory and palettes. In my experience, using a “split complementary palette” is about 0% predictive of me making nice-looking designs. I…

Websites provide access to all sorts of information. Whether we want to to learn more about an organization, purchase an item, donate to a cause, or access a resource, we’re dependent on site navigation to help us find what we’re looking for. However, many websites have navigation that just works…

About The Author Nick Babich is a developer, tech enthusiast, and UX lover. He has spent the last 10 years working in the software industry with a specialized focus on …More about NickBabich … February 8, 2017 The Role Of Empty States In User Onboarding Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks…

A nyone who doubts that genes can specify identity might well have arrived from another planet and failed to notice that the humans come in two fundamental variants: male and female. Cultural critics, queer theorists, fashion photographers, and Lady Gaga have reminded us— accurately—that these…

Boutique Boutique Débat en cours Travail décent et écologie : même combat ! 20 May 2019 La Revue Projet, c'est... Une revue bimestrielle, exigeante et accessible, au croisement entre le monde de la recherche et les associations de terrain. Accueil Nos questions en débat Nos articles Nos vidéos Nous…

About The Author Mason Gentry is a designer & art director from Los Angeles. He runs Design by Numbers, a program created to help students learn graphic design online . For …More about MasonGentry … December 16, 2016 Design For Developers Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks 2× a month —…

Was Gamification a Terrible Lie? Simon Parkin Nov 18, 2016 · Unlisted How much timber does it take to fill a truck? For American loggers in the early 1970s, it was a question of estimation rather than specification: anywhere between 60 and 123 trunks, depending on their length, diameter, and the…

Douglas Crockford accurately described JavaScript as the world’s most misunderstood language. A lot of programmers tend to think of it as not a “proper” language because it lacks the common object-oriented programming concepts. I myself developed the same opinion after my first JavaScript project…

The iOS 10 lockscreen has little round-cornered cells which represent your most recent un-attended notifications on the lockscreen. Swipe right on a notification to unlock iPhone and view the app which triggered that notification (similar to past versions of iOS). Swipe left on a notification to…

Depuis 1987, l’AFA, appelée plus communément l’ association des fromages AOP d’Auvergne , réunie quatre syndicats de la région auvergnate qui est devenue Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes depuis la fusion de 2016. Chacun de ces syndicats a pour objectif de mettre en avant les fromages AOP d’Auvergne . Le Bleu…

DESIGN is as important as TECHNOLOGY Today, design is as important as technology. I was meeting with a startup last week when the principal architect asked me why is design more important now than ever before? To answer that, let’s reflect on the evolution of automobile design. In the beginning, the…

You’ll probably want to exert some sizing control over any graphic you put on a website. Hey! You! Logo! You should be this size: .logo { width: 220px; height: 80px;} And so shall it be. But if the element you are resizing happens to be svg , the result might not be exactly what you expect. Sizing…

Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Illustration by Zohar Lazar ~ Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from…

About The Author Vanja is a marketing professional and writer, with years of experience in the software industry. He has worked on digital marketing projects for many …More about VanjaMimic … July 12, 2016 How We Started Releasing Features Twice As Fast (Case Study) Upgrade your inbox and get our…

7 Problems Growing Design Teams Face Aarron Walter in Leading Design Jun 21, 2016 · 8 min read Design is hard—that’s what I hear from design leaders at every company I visit. As the VP of Design Education at InVision , I study how design works and breaks in businesses. After nearly a decade of…

Comme l’a rappelé le débat sur le mariage pour tous, nombre d’entre nous aspirons à un même idéal, partageons une même représentation sociale normative : celle du couple, de la sacro-sainte famille nucléaire. La plupart d’entre nous aspirent à cet idéal : s’unir à quelqu’un et lui promettre de…

R ecently a Quebec arts foundation required the Francophone rap group Dead Obies to give back an $18,000 grant they’d been awarded to record their newest album. The problem? A word count determined that the group had stirred too much English into their distinctive multilingual lyrics, falling short…