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FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
Sorry everybody, I failed with you
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office
Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams
In Praise of Open Source Textbooks
I have recently been using the Linear Algebra book by Jim Hefferon to study the subject. This is because I'm taking a linear algebra course in college, I am visually impaired, and the books I get from college are literally unusable.<p>As a person who has to use a Screen Reader, math in PDFs is almost impossible to read for me. The problem is almost insurmountable if the PDF is a collection of images, but even if it is a LaTeX-generated PDF, reading anything but the simplest of equations is very, very hard. In these cases, having the LaTeX source to read is a godsend.<p>To the authors who publish the source of their books: thank you, thank you. I cannot express how grateful I am. To anyone who is related to /working in the publisher space: it would be incredibly useful if there was a process to get the LaTeX source of books upon request, although I understand how copyrights/etc might make this difficult.<p>Some other books I would like to point out for being open source: Apex Calculus, Open Data Structures.
Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
A New Future for Icanhazip
A New Future for Icanhazip
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit
Leaked Walmart memo reveals competitive threats