Writing
How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one. Databases are a nightmare to write, from Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) requirements to sharding to fault recovery to administration …
Writing the wrong date on your mail-in ballot in Pa. could get your vote thrown out, judges rule
PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) — A panel of federal judges ruled on Wednesday to uphold the enforcement of dates on mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.A divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it was permissible for Pennsylvania to require correct handwritten dates on outer envelopes on mail-in ballots, overturning a lower court ruling that sided in favor …
Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research continues to suggest that taking notes the traditional way—with pen and paper or even stylus and tablet—is still the best way to learn, especially for …
Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?
In 1979, the feminist writer and activist Pearl Cleage was thirty, newly divorced, and dating for the first time in more than a decade. After a late introduction to Miles Davis’s famous album “Kind of Blue,” she started playing the record on dates. She was “in need of a current vision of who and what …
Writing with Machines – Divinations
I’ve noticed a pattern. When most people see Lex, the AI-powered word processor we launched last week, they have one of two reactions: The first is, “Wow, this is cool! I want this to do all my writing for me.” The second is, “Wow, this is horrible! Any writing produced by an AI is obviously …
Writing your first Django app, part 4 | Django documentation
This tutorial begins where Tutorial 3 left off. We’re continuing the web-poll application and will focus on form processing and cutting down our code. Write a minimal form¶ Let’s update our poll detail template (“polls/detail.html”) from the last tutorial, so that the template contains an HTML <form> element: polls/templates/polls/detail.html¶ <form action=”{% url ‘polls:vote’ question.id %}” …
Antonio García Martínez: Apple parts ways with newly hired Ex-Facebook employee after workers cite ‘misogynistic’ writing
Antonio García Martínez, formerly a product manager for ad targeting at Facebook as well as the author of the 2016 autobiography “Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley,” joined Apple’s ads team in April, according to his LinkedIn profile. García Martínez’s book chronicles his life in the San Francisco Bay Area’s tech …
How technology has changed the game of sports writing
For nearly as long as there have been Virginia athletics, The Cavalier Daily sports section has been there to cover them. Just as Virginia has undergone significant transformations, so too has sports writing for The Cavalier Daily. While a commitment to covering Virginia sports and providing readers relevant content remains, the experiences of Cavalier Daily …
The Pitfalls of Writing About Revolutionary Defense Technology
Technology as a source of military innovation is hot stuff within the U.S. defense establishment right now. Anyone following the flow of information coming from the U.S. armed services and the Department of Defense will have noticed this. This is especially true for readers of War on the Rocks, who will have consumed a steady …
Column | Meera Komarraju: SIU Creative Writing Program adds technology to storytelling | SIU
Komarraju Virtual reality is going to be turning up under a lot of Christmas trees this year. You’ve probably seen the ads for the Quest, an increasingly popular standalone VR headset created by Oculus, a subsidiary of Facebook. Commercials for the device promise, “You can have more than one body. You can have more than …