How is Rust trending on Hacker News job postings compared to C++ and Python?

How are Rust, C++, and Python trending on Hacker News in the job market? As a proxy measure for programming language trends, let’s analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” and “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” postings on Hacker News for a few years up […]

While programming on my Mac and converting decimal numbers to hex and binary and using Apple’s Calculator for it – because it is built-in and works decent – I thought, I saw some wobbly lines of numbers. My first thought was: my eyes are getting tired. But it looked annoyingly wobbly and there went my […]

I just saw the Arc 7 series GPU at the Intel Innovation conference a couple of weeks ago. Today, I already got one in the mail. 😊 Thanks to the kind Intel team. Looking forward to test how it computes with common frameworks like tensorflow and PyTorch.

Assuming you have a dual boot system, a desktop with multiple drives. GRUB is setup to dual boot wither into Windows or into your Linux distribution. Now, one day, you change the drive configuration. You add or remove a drive or re-partition a disk. GRUB still comes up, but it fails to boot into your […]

I was going to open up and post a picture of one package a day from the stack on my desk. 🙂 Today’s surprise are SMS Audio headphones: ‪attendees of the Intel Developer Forum ’14 got these nice smart headphones with heart rate monitor in their christmas mail. Thank you, Intel!