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DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’
Posted by Mark Brand, Truncator of IntegersThis is going to be a quick post, just describing a pa...
I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
On May 4th, my book Hello Web App was released. Since then, hundreds of people used it to learn how to build web apps using Python and Django.
New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby
New Horizons decided to put on a little 4th of July drama for the mission's fans. It's currently in safe mode, and it will likely be a day or two before…
Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions
This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last update: 2015-07-15 13:00. All times are UTC.
Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajectories, and what can be done to fix the gaping disparities.
The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt (2014)
In 1999, America Online's volunteer chat room monitors sued the company for back wages. Do today's hot Internet companies risk the same fate?
Firefox 39.0 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap
In furthering the advantages and appeal of the Web as a platform for games and game technologies, Mozilla is publishing its games-focused roadmap. In short, it’s all about high-performance, plugin-free ...
Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3
I finally put the team's original plan into action, launching a vote on our new roadmap site , asking our community of backers to help us choose a single license for the project.
GCC: Patch to change default C++ dialect to C++14
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Setting Go variables from the outside
CloudFlare's DNS server, RRDNS, is written in Go and the DNS team used to generate a file called version.go in our Makefile. version.go looked something like this.
Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
Last year I wrote about AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage . The most important part was the following.
Compiler Errors for Humans
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Clojure 1.7 is now available
We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.7. The two headline features for 1.7 are transducers and reader conditionals. Also see the complete list ...
How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs.
Introducing s2n, a New Open-Source TLS Implementation
February 22, 2022: s2n has been renamed to s2n-tls. See details. At Amazon Web Services, strong encryption is one of our standard features, and an integral aspect of that is the TLS (previously called SSL) encryption protocol. TLS is used with every AWS API and is also available directly to customers of many AWS…