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The problem with public health care is not only underfunding, poor oversight, or the absence of yet another audit.

Does AI have consciousness?

Money is one of those areas where small omissions can generate technical debt faster than almost any other slice of an application domain.

Starting today, podcasts distributed under the random:stream section have a new home.

What is abstraction in computer programming?

Last night I received an e-mail in which one of my visitors asked me a few questions after reading the post about parsing phone numbers in Clojure.

Every couple of years, there’s an increase in devices that enable individuals to measure the bioelectrical activity of their brains at home.

Nftables is a programmable packet filter for Linux in which the matching mechanism is implemented as virtual-machine subprograms compiled to pseudocode while the rule management tool is in use.

Bindings let source-level names denote values and reference objects, while namespaces organize top-level Vars, Java classes, and aliases.

Data types allow us to classify values according to various characteristics and to establish relations between the resulting classes.

Data structures, alongside algorithms expressed as operations, are a fundamental component of every computer program.

The specific syntax of Lisp dialects allows one to precisely define and distinguish basic constructs, add new syntactic elements, and transform program forms as data during macro expansion.

Clojure, like most Lisp dialects, comes equipped with an interactive console that lets us experiment and test our knowledge in real time.

Clojure is a general-purpose functional programming language based on the Lisp-1 model.

At the turn of September and October 2014 the world learned of a security vulnerability that had been lurking for years in the GNU Bourne Again Shell (a.k.a.

When typing a website name into the browser’s address bar, mistakes sometimes happen.

Attacks that rely on setting up fake update servers are not as difficult to carry out as one might think.