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The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
As a co-founder and CTO, here's how my role has changed over the years.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,293 posts.
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As G Suite gains traction in the enterprise, G Suite’s Gmail and consumer Gmail to more closely align
Google’s G Suite business is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business customers. Today…
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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
Learn how to create a Python program that sends you an SMS text message whenever an event happens, such as university class registration opens.
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Why is the Internet so Slow?
Guest Post: What's the source of latency on the Internet, and how can it be reduced?
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Porting Swift to Haiku
Hello everyone! This report covers the span of the last two weeks of my porting efforts to get swift running on Haiku. I started debugging the runtime library ’libswiftCore’ on both Haiku and Linux and focused my attention specifically to …
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The making of Exchange, a new typeface
The search for a more flexible and effective relationship with typographic history.
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Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
We’re fueling a healthy Internet by supporting big ideas that keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. What will you build? Mozilla and t
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A new approach to text rendering
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly
CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design. It’s a flexible, simple design standard that can be used across all browsers and devices. That's why we built CSS Grid Inspector. We’ve been ...
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Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
MIT’s Erik Demaine improves on his landmark, 18-year-old algorithm for generating origami folding patterns for any 3-D shape. The new work adds the requirement of “watertightness,” or minimizing the number of seams in an origami approximation of a closed surface.
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Multiple regex performance shootout: RE2 vs. Intel's Hyperscan
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
Hello Spicy Compatriots, I know this is not typical on a business blog, but I want to share what happened to potentially help someone in a similar situation. If you have followed my twitter account since December, you might know that I was robbed by my Uber driver. He intentionally drove off with my backpack…
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AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
Numerai just released 1.2 million Numeraire tokens on Ethereum to build a bridge between artificial intelligence and the stock market.
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Teller – API for your bank account
How many times have you thought to yourself “Damn, I really wish my bank account had an API”? I bet the answer is a lot. Well, today is the last day you will ever think that again because we are pleased to announce that the Teller API beta program is now open to the public.
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Introducing Dash – Reactive Web Apps for Python
Create Reactive Web Apps in pure Python
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D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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An Ancient Kernel Hole Is Not Closed
The "stack clash" series of vulnerabilities were a prime opportunity to demonstrate the strength of grsecurity's approach to security. Unlike upstream Linux and other OSes, the issues uncovered were unexploitable under grsecurity for many years.
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Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
A federally funded research effort to revolutionize water treatment has yielded a direct solar desalination technology that uses energy from sunlight alone to heat salt water for membrane distillation. The technology could provide off-grid water treatment for some of the 1 billion people who lack access to clean water.
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Stanford students recreate 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe
Students brewed an ancient beer during class with Stanford archaeologist Li Liu, who discovered evidence of earliest beer-making in China as part of her recent research.
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Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning
The field of machine learning and artificial intelligence is making rapid progress. Many people are starting to ask what a world with intelligent computers will look like. But what is the ratio of hype to real progress? What kinds of problems have been well solved by current machine learning techniques, which ones are…
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How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
The BeyondCorp security engineering team at Google just announced their fourth research paper.