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Images Now Showing in Gmail
Posted by John Rae-Grant, Product Manager Have you ever wondered why Gmail asks you before showing images in emails? We did this to protec...
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First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js
Play Monster Madness to see how it leverages asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript and Web Port of Unreal Engine 3 for a slick, plugin-free multiplay
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Shopify Raises $100 Million
Shopify has raised $100 million in Series C funding from OMERS Ventures and Insight Venture Partners to ou
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What it feels like being an iPad on a stick on wheels
We like experimenting with geeky tools. All in the name of science of course…
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New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
News and notes from the Google Drive team
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hop
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Server-generated JavaScript responses
The majority of Ajax operations in Basecamp are handled with Server-generated JavaScript Responses (SJR). It works like this: Form is submitted via a XMLHttpRequest-powered form. Server creates or updates a model object. Server generates a JavaScript response that includes the updated HTML templa…
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Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
We now know that the NSA is collecting location information en masse. As we’ve long said, location data is an extremely powerful set of information about people.
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Firefox 26 is released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
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The main trick in machine learning
I have been irritated that many recent introductions to machine learning/neural networks/whatever that fail to emphasise the most import trick in machine learning. Many internet resources don’t mention it, and even good textbooks often don’t drill it in to the reader the absolute criticality to success the trick is…
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Panic Blog » The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
We’ve been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. It’s time to unravel that mystery. (Chung-chung!)
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The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face
Last summer the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) underwent a massive platform change, moving from a hosted third-party solution to our own custom Django application code-named Kuma. That move laid the ...
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TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
At Open Whisper Systems, we’re working to both advance the state of the art for secure communication and also reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as makin...
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Vagrant 1.4
Vagrant 1.4 has been released! This is a major new release of Vagrant with an incredible amount of new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Vagrant 1.4 can be downloaded on our new downloads page. First, I have to thank the new core committers of Vagrant for building many of the incredible features and improvements…
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Further improving digital certificate security
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer Late on December 3rd, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google do...
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“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments
Judge William Alsup convened day five of the trial in Ibrahim v. DHS — the first lawsuit challenging a U.S. government “no-fly” order to make it to trial — on Friday morning with the announcement that, “I received this additional material about the [plaintiff’s] daughter and her attempts to come here.”
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Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
Paul Graham YC partner (and lawyer) Carolynn Levy has created a new alternative to convertible notes, called a safe, that has the advantages of convertible debt without some of the disadvantages. We’re publishing a standard safe document for all startups to use, and we expect most future YC startups will use this when…
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Why we ditched Amazon AWS
Ever since we started TestingBot (almost 2 years ago!) we've been running TestingBot on Amazon AWS (EC2 + S3 + other services). These last few mon...
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Sad News for the Opscode Community
<p>I have some sad news for the Opscode community:</p> <p>Mitch Hill passed away yesterday morning after a difficult fight with cancer.
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Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
Posted by Zoe Piepmeier, Software Engineer Having access to your data and being able to take it with you is important, especially if tha...
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…