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What is property-based testing? (2016)
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you'd think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven't. This is my attempt to fix that.
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Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
MIT professor Scott Aaronson discusses new Google experiments that suggest the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena.
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Can You Buy A License to Speed?
Why does every nice car in California have a license plate frame from a charity that supports highway patrol officers? They think they'll get out of speeding tickets.
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
Ways of dealing with the fractured address space.
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Brave Wallet: a secure crypto wallet, built natively in a web3 browser
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
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The Haskell Phrasebook (2019)
The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.
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DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration
A detailed tutorial on DDR4 SDRAM Initialization, Training and Calibration. Exploring topics such as Read/Write Training, ZQ Calibration, Vref Training, Read Centering, Write Centering, Write Leveling and Periodic Calibration.
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Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
GitLab.com is migrating to Google Cloud Platform August 11 – here’s what this means for you now and in the future.
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Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-ol
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
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mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody Dave M Search and Data-Mining Engineer Oct 29, 2010 Ever wonder how we power the People Who Viewed this Also Viewed… feature? How does Yelp...
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Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open Internet
Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy and Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy, and com...
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Load Balancing without Load Balancers
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
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Pocket Watch: Verifying Exabytes of Data
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Wasmer and Trademarks
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
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Introducing Docker Content Trust
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch
Pizlix is LFS (Linux From Scratch) 12.2 with some added components, where userland is compiled with Fil-C. This means you get the most memory safe Linux-like OS currently available.
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Google: Mowing lawn with goats
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How do you process credit cards?
Matt asks: In my experience, credit card processing has been one of the major hurdles in starting an online business. Especially recurring/subscription charges. You’ve got PayPal, which seems a little unprofessional (and is a pain in the a*), and an absurd number of 3rd party vendors …
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The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist
About to launch a new website? Make sure that you have covered all bases with this comprehensive checklist you can't be without.
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The Science of Word Recognition
Reviews the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model.
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C500k in Action at Urban Airship
Explore the Airship blog for insights on mobile marketing, cross-channel messaging, personalization, customer engagement, and CX best practices.
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
Experience cutting-edge browser features in pre-release versions: Firefox Developer Edition, Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly. Download now!
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