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Oculus Joins Facebook
We started Oculus with a vision of delivering incredible, affordable, and ubiquitous consumer virtual reality to the world. We’ve come a long...
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 637 posts.
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Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court
In a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank today, striking down an abstract software patent. Essentially, the Court ruled that adding “on a computer” to an abstract idea does not make it patentable. Many thousands of software patents—particularly the...
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Docker Misconceptions
IOSBET adalah platform resmi dari agen situs sportsbook dengan pasaran terlengkap setiap negara pada tipe bet mix parlay hadiah besar dan casino online paling lengkap di Indonesia.
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Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++
Hello, everyone! Click here for up to date build instructions Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates nat…
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one ...
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Math for seven-year-olds
As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, ma…
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Heartbleed Update v3
Stay ahead with the latest cloud computing, content delivery, and cybersecurity trends, expert analyses, and tech insights from the official Akamai blog.
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6 GHz frequency modulated radar
Making a cheap and simple radar with a range of about 100 meters.
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EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
As the popularity of Bitcoins has increased, government officials are concerned about criminal activity associated with the virtual currency. But a recent subpoena issued by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to 19-year-old Bitcoin developer and MIT student Jeremy Rubin goes too far, and...
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iPhone 6 Screens Demystified
Articles about PaintCode's new features, interviews, application development topics.
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The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies
Update: I originally quoted the average price of office space as $36 / square foot / month, where ...
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Introducing ASP.NET vNext
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
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PHP 7's new hashtable implementation
About three years ago I wrote an article analyzing the memory usage of arrays in PHP 5. As part of the work on the upcoming PHP 7, large parts of the Zend Engine have been rewritten with a focus on smaller data structures requiring fewer allocations. In this article I will provide an overview of the new hashtable…
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Game servers: UDP vs TCP
When writing networked games, the question of UDP vs TCP will eventually come up. Typically you will hear people say things like: “Unless you’re doing action games, you can use TCP̶…
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A Traditional City Primer
The Traditional City simply refers to the pattern of development that human civilization has built in for millenia.
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Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning
This is a hack for the popular game, Flappy Bird. Although the game is no longer available on Google Play or the App Store, it did not stop folks from creating very good replicas for the web. People have also created some interesting variants of the game - Flappy Bird Typing Tutor and Flappy Math Saga.
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The Bubble Question
Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? I’ve been getting asked that question for at least four years now. It’s hard to sustain a bubble for four years. But we are also not in a normal valuation environment for high growth tech companies and we have […]
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Generators in Firefox now 22 times faster
wingolog: article: generators in firefox now twenty-two times faster
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Meanwhile, at code.org
In Mindstorms I made the claim that children can learn to program and that learning to program can affect the way they learn everything else. I had in mind something like the process of re-empowerment of probability: the ability to program would allow a student to learn and use powerful forms of proba- bilistic ideas…
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Resumes suck for hiring engineers
In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
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How I Start: Erlang
Erlang releases are a bit like magnets. Everyone who thinks about them shares the same thought: f**king releases, how do they work?
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Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools
A powerful feature that makes JavaScript unique is its ability to work asynchronously via callback functions. Assigning async callbacks let you write event-driven code but it also makes tracking down bugs a hair pulling experience since the JavaScript is not executing in a linear fashion.