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Topcoder Moves from IBM Informix to Postgres

Posted by dct on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:22PM
from the topcoder.com dept.

https://www.topcoder.com/blog/goodbye-informix-simplifying-the-topcoder-platform-after-24-years

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Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed

Posted by dct on Monday March 31, 2025 @09:15AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20g82y1k8o

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UK NATS report into last week’s air traffic control technical failure [pdf]

Posted by dct on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:44AM
from the publicapps.caa.co.uk dept.

https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident%20Investigation%20Preliminary%20Report.pdf

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How Apple tied its fortunes to China

Posted by dct on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:11AM
from the ft.com dept.

https://www.ft.com/content/d5a80891-b27d-4110-90c9-561b7836f11b

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What Matters to Developers in 2018 (2018)

Posted by dct on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:23PM
from the b7j0c.org dept.

https://www.b7j0c.org/blog/what_matters_in_2018.html

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Autism symptoms replicated in mice after faecal transplants

Posted by dct on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:15PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/30/autism-symptoms-replicated-mice-after-faecal-transplants

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Why Can’t I Buy a 1600×1200 Monitor Any More? (2013)

Posted by dct on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:07AM
from the inetdaemon.com dept.

http://www.inetdaemon.com/q-and-a/why-cant-i-buy-1600x1200-monitor/

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Lessons from history for the future of work

Posted by dct on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:29AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://www.nature.com/news/lessons-from-history-for-the-future-of-work-1.22825

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Alarm as study reveals world’s tropical forests are huge carbon emission source

Posted by dct on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:32PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/alarm-as-study-reveals-worlds-tropical-forests-are-huge-carbon-emission-source

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Perl6 uses (U+269B) to denote atomic operators

Posted by dct on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:02AM
from the docs.perl6.org dept.

https://docs.perl6.org/type/atomicint

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Silicon Valley automation apocalypse

Posted by dct on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:50AM
from the mashable.com dept.

http://mashable.com/2017/08/06/silicon-valley-automation-apocalypse-jamie-bartlett/

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Mosul from above: a 360 degree video

Posted by dct on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:04AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/mosul_from_above_360

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Interactive 360 YouTube video of a helicopter over Mosul

Posted by dct on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:19PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKseZzSL2jM

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Envoy: proxy/communication bus for SOA services

Posted by dct on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:16AM
from the lyft.github.io dept.

https://lyft.github.io/envoy/

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Re:A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:48AM (#13598555)

Voyager is the name RAF use: http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/voyager.cfm

People’s freedom jeopardised by new software adopted by California’s courts

Posted by dct on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:59AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38153992

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Re:CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:52PM (#13057075)

All the contributors have rather cryptic usernames: https://github.com/orgs/gchq/people

QuestHub shuts down

Posted by dct on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:02AM
from the questhub.io dept.

https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041

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Framing the problem

Posted by dct on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:59AM
from the 6guts.wordpress.com dept.

https://6guts.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/framing-the-problem/

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Re:Tipu's Tiger on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:23AM (#11534150)

Also featured in Sharpe's Tiger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe's_Tiger)

Web host 123-reg deletes sites in clean-up error

Posted by dct on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @07:21AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36072240

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The immortalist: Uploading the mind to a computer

Posted by dct on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:22PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35786771

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Germany train crash: Human error to blame

Posted by dct on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:46AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35585302

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Rosetta's lander faces eternal hibernation

Posted by dct on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:56AM
from the esa.int dept.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_s_lander_faces_eternal_hibernation

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Re:The last audio cassette factory [video] on Friday September 04, 2015 @06:48AM (#10169664)

The police still use them a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330

Re:Advanced Computer Architecture on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @05:34AM (#10158208)

May be the number of people who took this course and found it interesting?

Re:Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:48AM (#9731709)

since 1971