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Dolphin Progress Report: September 2017
While an emulator's primary job is to emulate, there's usually a lot more that goes into a good emulator. For Dolphin, it may feel like a lot of work has gone toward luxury features and optimizations rather than improving accuracy and compatibility. For example, Ubershaders is a wonderful, game-changing feature, but…
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A 1 KB Docker Container
Field notes from a software developer
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Real-Time Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters
Handwriting recognition is more important than ever given the prevalence of mobile phones, tablets, and wearable gear like smartwatches. The…
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A bizarre “403 Forbidden” bug-hunting adventure
I've been trying to figure out a strange bug in Exist for iOS over the past couple of months, and finally managed to fix it yesterday. Without Josh 's help I would still be scratching my head over this bizarre issue.
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Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Earlier this year, I wrote about an update to the roadmap for F# and .NET Core. I had mentioned that there were a number of things you could build with F# and .NET Core today, such as web services. In this post, I’ll walk through building a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0 […]
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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Engines are important, both in cars and in browsers. That’s why we’re so revved up this morning – we’re releasing the Beta of a whole new Firefox,
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PEP 557 – Data Classes
This PEP describes an addition to the standard library called Data Classes. Although they use a very different mechanism, Data Classes can be thought of as “mutable namedtuples with defaults”. Because Data Classes use normal class definition syntax, y...
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How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
What’s the point of hiring junior developers? Joseph Wynn, a former Principal Software Engineer in the BBC News website team shared the…
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Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration
Numba is an open-source Python compiler from Anaconda that can compile Python code for high-performance execution on CUDA-capable GPUs or multicore CPUs.
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Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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The Future of HHVM
Several months ago, PHP officially announced the end-of-life forPHP5.
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Announcing CoffeeScript 2
We are pleased to announce CoffeeScript 2! This new release of the CoffeeScript language and compiler aims to bring CoffeeScript into the modern JavaScript era, closing gaps in compatibility with JavaScript while preserving the clean syntax that is CoffeeScript’s hallmark. In a nutshell:
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Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas
Learn to perform the basics of geospatial analysis using Python along with the GeoJSON and GeoPandas libraries.
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Leave your OS at home: the rise of library operating systems
The efficiency of Operating Systems (OSes) has always been in the spotlight of systems researchers, ever since the seminal Dijkstra’s THE multiprogramming system in early 60s. But the reason …
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Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?
We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries .
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Verified cryptography for Firefox 57
Traditionally, software is produced in this way: write some code, maybe do some code review, run unit-tests, and then hope it is correct. Hard experience shows that it is very ...
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Why category theory matters in programming
Divide and conquer has been a core strategy in software engineering. We decompose our systems into smaller modules with focused, simple…