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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Even if you’ve covered Congress for The New York Times for a decade, it can be hard to recognize which member you’ve just spoken with…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,294 posts.
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Haxe: Cross-Platform Development's Best-Kept Secret
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and ...
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JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript script engine and APIs, and the jjs tool, with the intent to remove them in a future release.
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Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database-First Designs
In this much overdue article, I will explain why I think that in almost all cases, you should implement a “database first” design in your application’s data models, rather than a …
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Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
Vert.x | Reactive applications on the JVM
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How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2018
I recently wrote about some work I’ve done to speed up the Rust compiler . Since then I’ve done some more.
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Fun with SQL: Window Functions in Postgres
Window functions in PostgreSQL are valuable when you want to compare & contrast data between rows. And window functions are key in analytics use cases. This post covers the basic structure of window functions as well as some of the more interesting things you can do with them.
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GitLab + Google Cloud Platform = simplified, scalable deployment
We’ve teamed up with Google Cloud Platform – here’s what that means for you.
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Ruby 2.6.0-preview2 released with JIT
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.6.0-preview2.
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Ready for Production Apps: Flutter Beta 3
This week at Google I/O, we're announcing the third beta release of Flutter , our mobile app SDK for creating high-quality, native user experiences on iOS and Android, along with showcasing new tooling partners, usage of Flutter by several high-profile customers, and announcing official support from the Material team.
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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...
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Released and Certified: Qt Safe Renderer
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.1. It includes improvements to performance, to the runtime and tools. It also includes a new way to deploy tools as NuGet packages. We’ve added a new primitive type called Span<T> that operates on data without allocations. There are many other new APIs, focused on…
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Scrum disempowers developers
Last time, we looked at how Scrum has become the de facto definition of Agile, and how it is uniquely lacking in technical practices compared to the other methodologies that were involved in creating the Agile manifesto. This lack of technical good practices and craft causes some obvious
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To Yarn and Back to Npm Again
Yarn solved the annoying problems we faced using npm, but it came with issues of its own. Here are the problems of Yarn and solutions that we landed on.
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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a
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ReasonML – React as first intended
ReasonML is a technology Facebook uses to build React apps, seen as a futuristic version of JavaScript. Here is what you should know.
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (2013)
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
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The Eudora Email Client Source Code
Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. The ability to quickly send and receive messages without having to be online at the same time created a new form of human communication. By now billions of people have used email.
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Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
PostgreSQL trigger performance. Should we use tiggers at all? Find out how triggers perform in performance tests.
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
It's with sad hearts that we are announcing that search.cpan.org will be retired on the 25th of June 2018. Graham Barr originally wrote t...
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Recursive Common Table Expressions in Postgres
Common Table Expressions in PostgreSQL are a powerful SQL construct. You can think of CTEs as a view that is materialized only while the query is running. Recursive CTEs allow themselves to be called until some condition is met. This post from the Citus Data team explores how recursive CTEs work in Postgres.
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Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
We are getting close to the official release date and have begun final preparations, including submitting 1Password 7 to the Mac App Store.
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Introducing Git protocol version 2
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Material UI v1 for React is out
React components that implement Google’s Material Design.