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Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
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CLion – Brand New IDE for C and C++ Developers
Hello, Everyone!Today we have some great news to share with you. To make a long story short, C/C++ IDE goes public as CLion!Since the early days, JetBrains has been focused on making software
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Stanford engineer aims to connect the world with ant-sized radios
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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From Reddit to Pornhub, Websites Slow Down for Net Neutrality on September 10
You know the net neutrality conversation is breaking new ground when even the porn sites are weighing in. And that's just what we're seeing: Major adult platforms Pornhub and Redtube are joining an online protest on September 10, calling for stronger protections for net neutrality. They’re teaming...
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Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode
We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...
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Exploding Offers Suck
Exploding offers suck. Founders should be able to choose the investor they want to work with, not have to make a decision based on time pressure. As the world of accelerators gets more and more competitive, we’re seeing more and more exploding offers where an accelerator tries to force a company to make a decision…
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Gradually sunsetting SHA-1
Cross-posted on the Chromium Blog The SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm has been known to be considerably weaker than it was designed t...
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Building a deeper understanding of images
Posted by Christian Szegedy, Software EngineerThe ImageNet large-scale visual recognition challenge (ILSVRC) is the largest academic challenge in c...
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Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works
Amazon has a tendency to polarize people. On one hand, there is the ruthless, relentless, ferociously efficient company that’s building the Sears Roebuck of the 21st Century. But on the other, there is the fact that almost 20 years after it was launched, it has yet to report a meaningful profit. This chart captures…
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Sophos News - The Sophos Blog
The Sophos Blog
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YC Investment Policy and Email List
We’re making a change to the rule for YC partners making follow-on investments. Previously, partners could invest in companies after they had either raised $500k or 3 weeks after Demo Day. This reduced a lot of the conflict and signaling issues, but not enough—partners investing during the batch still caused issues…
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Generative eBook Covers
Here at NYPL Labs we’re working on an ebook-borrowing and reading app. This post explores automated ways for creating covers for public-dom…
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Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.
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Founder Stories: Tracy Young of PlanGrid (YC W12)
PlanGrid founders Tracy Young, Kenny Stone, Ryan Sutton-Gee and Ralph Gootee Tracy Young is the founder and CEO ofPlanGrid [http://www.plangrid.com/en], an app that lets construction companies store blueprints and documents on mobile devices. Since going through the YC’s Winter 2012 batch, PlanGrid has grown from a…
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Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)
The programming language Pascal has become the dominant language of instruction in computer science education. It has also strongly influenced languages developed subsequently, in particular Ada.