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Overall, airlines are a lossmaking business. Yet there’s plenty of money to be made. Why doesn’t the industry work? CC-licensed photo by Can Pac Swire on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. … Continue...
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I remember the moment Swift announced async/await. I was genuinely relieved. Finally, there was going to be a way out of completion handler pyramids, delegate chains, and the special kind of cognitive overhead that comes from reading...
Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs. That post focused on Port itself, but writing it left me with the itch to do a follow-up on the bigger picture, because the socket REPL / prepl story is one I’ve been meaning to...
Fun fact: I have been in four car accidents, including one where the car ended in a ditch, yet have never had surgery. That will change on Friday…but not because of a car accident. In fact, the source of the surgery is one of those...
Placa de l'Àngel, on my way yesterday to a union training about compensation and payslips structure #ciutatvella #valència
New York City, through much of the 20th century, was a place where power operated in the shadows. The Five Families ruled entire neighborhoods, names like Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Frank Costello commanded fear and...
Twenty Years Ago on FITK Hi you, two booths down Would you like to join me? You see It's been years since I've had a man You know. To slap me around. I would love to But I have weak wrists Can't make a fist, he sighed I can only kiss you...
And so to the road steam power. This magnificent road engine with a crane was in the station yard. I especially liked the steam lorries, my favourite being the six-wheeled Sentinel, with something like a rear bogie providing the power…....