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Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Canonical extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux support to 10 years - Sean Michael Kerner/ServerWatch https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/canonical-extends-ubuntu-18.04-lts-linux-support-to-10-years.html

Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it. - Elizabeth Dwoskin/The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/14/quitting-instagram-shes-one-millions-disillusioned-with-social-media-she-also-helped-create-it/

Firms trying to fill jobs 'should try paying more,' Fed's Kashkari says - Jeff Cox/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/firms-trying-to-fill-jobs-should-try-paying-more-feds-kashkari-says.html

Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026

Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors https://docs.slatejs.org/

Wed, 14 Nov 2018

I used to be homeless — and here's what everyone gets wrong about it - Mark Anthonhy DiBello/Yahoo https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/used-homeless-apos-everyone-gets-201049080.html

Private by design: How we built Firefox Sync - Tom Ritter/Mozilla Hacks https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu -- yet - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-is-not-selling-canonical-or-ubuntu-yet/

Amazon has its own distribution of OpenJDK https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

Qualtrics is a family business, one that SAP just bought for billion - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/how-one-family-built-8-billion-startup-far-from-silicon-valley

Host a static website on GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/product/pages/

Building a simple static site generator using Node.js - Victor Parmar/SmallData https://smalldata.tech/blog/2018/08/16/building-a-simple-static-site-generator-using-node-js

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

The Year 10,000 problem - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem

These are the things Apple customers hate the most (there's a lot) | Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-are-the-things-apple-customers-hate-the-most-theres-a-lot/

Sun, 11 Nov 2018

Fedora Toolbox — Hacking on Fedora Silverblue - Debarshi's den https://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/fedora-toolbox-hacking-on-fedora-silverblue/

Fedora Toolbox ready for testing! — Christian F.K. Schaller https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2018/10/23/fedora-toolbox-ready-for-testing/

Scripting Java 11, shebang and all - Nicolai Parlog/blog@CodeFX https://blog.codefx.org/java/scripting-java-shebang/

Why doctors hate their computers - Atul Gawande/The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s - Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/the-new-york-times-is-digitizing-more-than-5-million-photos-dating-back-to-the-1800s/

Sat, 10 Nov 2018

The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs

Homelessness is a tragedy the U.S. can afford to fix - Noah Smith/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/ending-homelessness-is-a-job-for-the-federal-government

How to improve math class | Jo Boaler/Time http://time.com/4970465/how-to-improve-math-class/

Before envelopes, people protected messages with letterlocking - Abigail Cain/Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-people-do-before-envelopes-letterlocking

Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? - arun.is https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/

Computer programming as an art - Donald E. Knuth (click the PDF link to read this December 1974 paper from Communications of the ACM) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612

Why Pharo might be the future of software development - Richard Kenneth Eng/The Cohort by App Academy https://blog.appacademy.io/pharo-future-software-development/

Yelp craters as much as 32% as advertisers abandon the site - Sara Salinas/CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/yelp-craters-30percent-as-advertisers-abandon-the-site.html