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Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Apple announced OS X Yosemite today. Don't worry, Alfred is here to stay - and continues to grow beautifully.
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Common Server Setups For Your Web App
When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reli…
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Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)
Rick Thorne writes: > In truth, I like Ada too. I'm a former Ada man myself, as I believe I > mentioned. There are great things about the language, and since we're all > aware of them there's no point in going into them. I also prefer Beta to > VHS. Mathew Heaney responds: This is actually a specious comparison…
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The Rise of the $8 Ice Cube
At $8 a piece (or $325 for 50), luxury ice cubes probably cost more than whatever you're drinking.
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How LEDs are Made
During the 2014 trip to China, our supplier YunSun was kind enough to pick us up in Shenzhen and give us a tour of their factory.
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Apache Spark 1.0.0
Spark 1.0.0 is a major release marking the start of the 1.X line. This release brings both a variety of new features and strong API compatibility guarantees throughout the 1.X line. Spark 1.0 adds a new major component, Spark SQL , for loading and manipulating structured data in Spark. It includes major extensions to…
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RenderMan Price Restructuring
What's New in RenderMan
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We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
The ISEE-3 Reboot Project is pleased to announce that our team has established two-way communication with the ISEE-3 spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions. Over the coming days and weeks our team will make an assessment of the spacecraft’s overall health and refine the techniques…
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So a female programmer walks into a bar…
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Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States
In the mid-1800s, the United States had an emperor -- and he was supreme.
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Getting to work on diversity at Google
We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were wrong, and that it’s time to be candid about the is…
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Introducing Socket.io 1.0
The first version of Socket.IO was created shortly after Node.JS made its first appearance. I had been looking for a framework that easily enabled me to push data from a server to a client for a long time, and even had tried other approaches to server-side JavaScript.
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Announcing Xamarin 3
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations
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Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
We’re exploring what fully self-driving vehicles would look like by building some prototypes.
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PHP Next Generation
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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SBCL 1.2.0 Released with ARM support
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of the two most recent SBCL releases are listed below.