Nov 21st 2020 E VERY MORNING he could, Jonathan Sacks pulled on his tracksuit and went out jogging. He was not called the “rapid rabbi” for nothing. Jogging, as his desk-sign reminded him, led to posi

Nov 14th 2020 “B ECAUSE POLITICS. ” “Latinx.” “Doomscrolling.” Language is developing all the time, as new usages like these arise and old ones disappear. One common way to describe this process is to

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Code review is a very important part of the software development cycle. On Bitbucket and other source code management systems, pull requests are used to review code on branches before it reaches maste

Elysia Lock Apr 27, 2018 · 4 min read I wrapped up a work week where I spent the better part of it trying to figure out how to cherry-pick a few methods from different classes to build a smoke test su

The more perceptive of you might have realised that I’m in the job market. After nine wonderful years, I've decided to shut down my strategy and data consulting business. Will start looking for a job

The Guardian’s Digital Fellowship programme gives new developers an opportunity to spend a year rotating around several development teams so that they can gain exposure to different technologies, buil

One silver lining in the madness of the US Presidential election counting is that there are some interesting analyses floating around regarding polling and surveying and probabilities and visualisatio

Nov 7th 2020 The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. By Joseph Henrich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 704 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30 I

Oct 31st 2020 A FTER HER morning prayer and before she had eaten breakfast, the sun barely up, Hawa Abdi liked to walk around the village. First she would go to the communal farm to start the generato

March 14, 2006 was the beginning of a new era in computing. That was the day that Amazon Web Services released the Simple Storage Service (S3). Technically, Simple Queuing Services was released earlie

My students look depressed and it worries me. At SciencesPo’s journalism school in Paris, cohorts are rather small, which allows instructors and the school management to remain in touch with students,

Oct 31st 2020 The Perfect Nine. By Ngugi wa Thiong’o. New Press; 240 pages; $23.99. Harvill Secker; £12. A MONG THE most exciting new writing of the past few decades has been the reimagining of founda

Oct 29th 2020 E VERY TUESDAY for most of 1979-80, the Blitz wine bar in Covent Garden was host to an influential club-night. London was then a run-down city. The Blitz was a seedy spot. What made it r

In September, Kieren D’Souza, 27, bumped into a few mountaineers during a recce climb on Deo Tibba, a 6,001m peak in the Pir Panjal range in Himachal Pradesh. They had spent over a week on the mountai

That’s a criticism, of course. A report, study or testimony that’s all anecdote with no data carries little in the way of actionable information. On the other hand, if you want to change people’s mind

At the end of May, TIAA, the financial services and investing giant, rolled out new gender-identity awareness guidelines for its client-facing consultants. The guidance included: “Never assume someone

Oct 24th 2020 The International Brigades. By Giles Tremlett. Bloomsbury; 720 pages; £30. To be published in America in July 2021; $30. H ISTORY MAY often be written by the victors, but that has never

Oct 24th 2020 E ARTH’S LONGEST artificial structure is usually said to be the Great Wall of China. Just how long that is is hard to say, for northern China actually has many walls, built at different

Fernandes scores with a penalty for Manchester United in their Champions League victory against Paris Saint-Germain.Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA H ow Manchester United must wish they could play Paris Sa

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Oct 15th 2020 T HE COMIC strip appeared for just nine years, between 1964 and 1973, in Argentina. Yet Mafalda occupies a unique and lasting place in Latin American popular culture. That showed in the

Oct 17th 2020 W HEN HE BECAME famous—when, as he sang the opening words of his best-loved song, Morgh-e Sahar, “Dawn Bird”, the crowds would start clapping and leaping to their feet—Mohammad Reza Shaj

Oct 12th 2020 P ennsylvania is one of a clutch of states that can decide an American presidential election. Its largest city, Philadelphia, leans solidly Democrat but voters in smaller towns and rural

Oct 8th 2020 The Light Ages. By Seb Falk. W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £20. I N THE 11TH century, nearly 500 years before Leonardo da Vinci drew a similar flying machine, a young monk call

Oct 10th 2020 T HE GREAT thing about using a small country to support your argument is that your opponents are unlikely to know what is really going on there. Perhaps that is why Sweden, with 10.3m pe

No one ever bought anything on an elevator. The elevator pitch isn’t about selling your idea, because a metaphorical elevator is a lousy place to make a pitch. When you feel like you’re being judged a

Oct 10th 2020 L AST YEAR Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the most Olympian of India’s public intellectuals, infuriated many of his compatriots. Instead of lauding the audacity of a government that had just impose

Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two. “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a 1-5 star rating. Millions of people respond to these requests, giving little thought to the

Aug 8th 2020 O N THE FIRST day of rehearsals for “Captain Blood”, in 1935, Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn returned their lunch trays together to the canteen. Already she had thought “Oh!” at the

Sep 23rd 2020 ON THE EVENING of July 11th 2015, Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the opera. There was nothing odd in that. Opera, after the law, was her great love, the only place where she could leave the

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Oct 3rd 2020 AVIEMORE T HE PURPLE of the Highlands in early autumn can drive the dourest of Scots to poetry, but Renwick Drysdale, who with his brothers will inherit an estate in Fife, can’t see the l

Oct 3rd 2020 I N THE WEEKS following the stockmarket crash in October 1987, the investment committee of Yale University’s endowment fund convened two extraordinary meetings. Just after the crash its n

Oct 3rd 2020 G EORGE BERNARD SHAW , a playwright and activist, thought that the best way to bring about social equality was “to keep the entire community intermarriageable”. He was primarily concerned

Oct 3rd 2020 VILLAHERMOSA O N A SCORCHING Saturday in Jonuta, a poor region of the tropical Mexican state of Tabasco, a woman sits in the shade by a river cradling her granddaughter. The child’s name

Illustrations by Dalbert Vilarino No Code? No Problem — Writing Tests in Plain English How we use Behavior Driven Development to better collaborate The NYT Open Team Follow Feb 1, 2019 · 4 min read Be

An unstaffed Lifvs supermarket in Sweden.Photograph: Lifvs Emma Nilsson’s husband is harvesting hay in the hot summer sun and she has popped into the village shop to get him a bottle of water. But the

Aug 25th 2020 BERLIN AND GÖTTINGEN ASKED WHAT he makes of his new home, Safwan Daher, a Syrian refugee, chuckles: Duderstadt, a town near Göttingen that few Germans could find on a map, is “boring”. N

Jul 6th 2020 I n 1998 a provincial Japanese clothing company known for flogging imported brands like Nike and Adidas opened its first shop in an upmarket district of Tokyo. Surprisingly, it chose a zi