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06/27/19

V is for Vaporware - Christine Dodrill

V is a programming language that has been hyped a lot. As it’s recently had its first alpha release, I figured it would be a good idea to step through it and see if it lives up to the promises that the author has been claiming for months.

As far as I can tell, all of the above features are either “work-in-progress” or completely absent from the source repository.

fkill-cli: Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV shows, and I asked her what she likes to do with her friends. “We go to the mall,” she said. “Do your parents drop you off?,” I asked, recalling my own middle-school days, in the 1980s, when I’d enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends. “No—I go with my family,” she replied. “We’ll go with my mom and brothers and walk a little behind them. I just have to tell my mom where we’re going. I have to check in every hour or every 30 minutes.”

SymPy
JSON Resume

A community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes.

Music and video at the Linux terminal | Enable SysAdmin

Your terminal doesn't have to just be for text. Enjoy video and audio at the command line as you work with these simple tools.