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The on-the-spot reports laid bare the destructive impact of the “intervention” on the already shocking conditions of Aboriginal communities.

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We have all seen the Aboriginal man whose face has featured on Australias $2 coin for almost three decades.

Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. What eventually became APL was first a mathematical notation, not as a computer programming language.

Pjones writes "Many of us know Fred Brooks from his book, Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, and from his coining of the term "computer architecture." He is also famous for Brooks Law which every manager should learn and be forced to repeat daily. So its good news to report that B...

A collection of books, video courses, and blogs that help software engineers become better at their craft.

A look at three relics of a not-quite-bygone era. In picture-listicle form.

Developing safe and mission-critical software has been a challenge since the age of the mainframes.

The world has been getting a lot more complex, most people will agree to that. A major element in that rising complexity has been the insanely huge amounts of machine logic we human species have been adding to the world. Both that logic itself, as what it enables — think globalisation of trade and communication — has made most of our lives more complex and complicated in one way or another. And while it has brought us much, it also has a serious number of unwanted side-effects. We run into ...