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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
Annual letters from the Gates Foundation.
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What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS
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Kids, this is story of How I Met... my VPS hacked
Just recently I published my technical goals for 2014 and one of them was to learn more about security. Well it couldn’t have been more appropriate, my Virtual Private Server (VPS) just got hacked, for the second time (I use the VPS to host a Java web application). The first time, I basically rebuilt my server and…
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Linux 3.13
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.13 development cycle
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A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC
People frequently ask me for status updates on generational GC, and I usually say I’ll tell them when something notable happens. Well, something notable just happened: exact rooting landed .
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Building an open source Nest
Inspired by the Google acquisition of Nest for $3.2Bn, the Spark team set out to build an intelligent learning thermostat in less than 24 hours.
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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)
You’ve probably heard that diabetes is a huge and growing problem—affecting one in every 19 people on the planet. But you may not be familiar with the daily struggle tha…
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Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation
The notion of standard deviation has confused hordes of scientists; it is time to retire it from common use and replace it with the more effective one of mean deviation. Standard deviation, STD, should be left to mathematicians, physicists and mathematical statisticians deriving limit theorems. There is no scientific…
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TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification
One of the disclosed pitfalls of TrueCrypt disk encryption is that the master keys must remain in RAM in order to provide fully transparent...
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Everyone can now track down noisy tabs
November’s Chrome beta introduced improvements to help make your browsing quieter, safer and sleeker. In the latest Chrome release we’re...
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PSD to HTML is Dead
There are PSD to HTML tutorials are all over the web. In fact, many have asked why there's not a PSD to HTML tutorial on Treehouse. So why is it dead?
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Asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance
With the recent announcement of a commercial game shipping using Emscripten and asm.js , I thought it’d be a good time to explain how asm.js is executed in Firefox and some of the load-time optimizations we’ve made since the initial landing of OdinMonkey in March. (OdinMonkey is an optimization module inside Mozilla’s…
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Elixir and the Internet of Things – Handling a Stampede
Neo supports the next generation of tech leaders with the industry's best startup residency, recruiting platform, and diverse mentorship community.
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Ghost 0.4 Released
Today we are releasing Ghost 0.4 - the next minor release of the Ghost blogging platform. With a great deal of shiny new things. This release represents a total of 374 commits across 178 issues from 88 incredible contributors all over the world. It's a cleaner, faster, more sophisticated