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In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
Essentially a flick is just a really big number, specifically the number 705,600,000 and tries to solve a problem that nobody in digital media actually has.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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GitLab 12.5
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
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Multi-Value All the Wasm
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has ...
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Successfully Merging the Work of 1000 Developers
Collaboration with a large team is challenging, and even more so if it’s on a single codebase, like the Shopify monolith. Shopify changes 40 times a day. We follow a trunk-based development workflow and merge around 400 commits to master daily. There are three rules that govern how we deploy safely, but they were hard…
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Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
Create a WhatsApp chatbot using Python & Flask with Twilio's API. Follow our step-by-step guide to build, deploy, & enhance your chatbot. Start building with Twilio.
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Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust
Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust. Prince is a tool that converts HTML and CSS into well laid out…
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Postmortem of database outage of January 31
Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.
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Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
D-INFK GitLab Service
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Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
How Docker 19.03 makes it simple to build images for most hardware platforms.
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Gitea 1.10.0 Released
It's time for another major release We are proud to present Gitea 1.10.0 to the world. In this release, we've merged 322 pull requests https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:pr+milestone:1.10.0+is:merged . The list includes 97 features and enhancements, and m
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Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?
For some companies who have already made the change years ago, it won’t be an issue. However, there’s a whole range of companies who won’t be making the change anytime soon, for a number of reasons. What does this change mean for companies heavily utilizing the language, particularly those who may not be ready to…
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Go.dev: a new hub for Go developers
Announcing go.dev, which answers: who else is using Go, what do they use it for, and how can I find useful Go packages?
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CockroachDB 19.2
CockroachDB 19.2 improves latency, reliability, and usability. We’re bringing the speed of distributed transactions closer to the theoretical minimum.
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The Bytecode Alliance: Building a secure, composable future for WebAssembly
Lin Clark introduces the Bytecode Alliance, and uses Code Cartoon illustrations to share their vision of a WebAssembly ecosystem that is secure by default, fixing cracks in today’s software foundations. ...
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
The first task of the 21st Weekly Challenge was a very old one: to find (what would eventually become known as) Euler’s number.
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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Avoiding “OR” for Better Query Performance
OR in the WHERE condition of a PostgreSQL database query is usually a cause of bad query performance. How to rewrite queries without OR.
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Go Turns 10
Happy 10th birthday, Go!
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Security assessment techniques for Go projects
The Trail of Bits Assurance practice has received an influx of Go projects, following the success of our Kubernetes assessment this summer. As a result, we’ve been adapting for Go projects some of the security assessment techniques and tactics we’ve used with other compiled languages. We started by understanding the…
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...
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Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
In this tutorial, we will implement a Rust program that attempts to utilize 100% of the theoretical capacity of three relatively modern, mid-range CPUs. We'll use an existing, highly efficient C++ implementation as a reference point to compare how our Rust program is doing. We start with a simple baseline solution of…
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The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
Introduction
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Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
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Using the linear distance operator in Postgres 12 to find the closest match
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.