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Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
Today, Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform for gaming by providing a sneak peek of Epic’s
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The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer
Whatsapp had 450 million monthly users and just 32 engineers when it was acquired. Imgur scaled to over 40 billion monthly image views with just seven engineers. Instagram had 30 million users and just 13 engineers when it was acquired for $1 billion dollars. This is the new normal: fewer engineers and dollars to…
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GitHub Language Trends
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
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Mozilla Releases the First Browser Built for Developers
Developers are critical to the continued success of the Web. The content and apps they create compel us to come back to the Web every day, whether on a computer ...
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Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
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Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
Essentialism—what I’ve called "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind"—stems from Plato, with his characteristically Greek geometer’s view of things. For Plato, a circle, or a right triangle, were ideal forms, definable mathematically but never realised in practice. A circle drawn in the sand was an imperfect…
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Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Stellar is a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for ...