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The Case of the Extra 40ms
By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering
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Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters
We have made the difficult decision to shut down operations at ROSS Intelligence. As of Monday of this week, we have no longer been accepting new customers. As of January 31, 2021, the ROSS platform will no longer be available. Between now and then, our priority is to help our current customers transition to other…
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How we built scalable spatial indexing in CockroachDB
Support for spatial data and geospatial indexing is one of the most requested features in the history of CockroachDB.
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Coordinated disclosure of XML roundtrip vulnerabilities in Go’s standard library
We have identified three independently exploitable vulnerabilities in Go's encoding/xml. Read more about their impact to Mattermost users.
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Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
Google claims search competition is “only one click away.” So why does it take fifteen+ clicks to make DuckDuckGo Search or any other alternative the default on Android devices?
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Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
Transform cyber defense with Mandiant. Engage frontline experts for incident response, threat intelligence services, and cyber risk management.
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Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison
You have a file, possibly a huge CSV, and you want to import its content into your database. There are lots of options to do this but how would you decide which one to use. More often than not the question is how much time would the bulk load would take. I found my self doing the same
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SCOTUS rules you may sue government agents for damages when they violate rights
Arlington, Va.—In a unanimous opinion issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court, and authored by Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court ruled in Tanzin v. […]
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Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern storage system
Redpanda powers an Agentic Data Plane and Data Streaming platform for real-time performance, AI innovation, and simplified operations.
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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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Emacs Survey 2020 Results
Emacs User Survey 2020 Results
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Who Americans spend their time with, by age
How do people across the world spend their time? How do daily activities differ across countries, and how do these differences matter for people’s lives? Explore data and research on time use.
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Introducing x64 emulation in preview for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to the Windows Insider Program
Updated 11/16/2021: x64 emulation for Windows is now generally available in Windows 11. For those interested in experiencing this, a PC running Windows 11 on Arm is required. Today, we're releasing the first preview of x64 emulation
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A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21277 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As mentioned here, we are giving Windows Insiders in
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Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
Brave News is accessible below the new tab page and is delivered anonymously to the user's browser via Brave's new private content delivery network.
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Brave Complies With Apple iOS Guidelines
Brave is releasing a new version of our iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple.
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The Airbnbs
To celebrate Airbnb’s IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. What was special about the Airbnbs was how earnest they were. They did nothing half-way, and we could sense this even in the interview. Sometimes after we interviewed a startup we’d be…
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Can developer productivity be measured?
Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO’s job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?
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Longbets: A bioerror will lead to one million casualties by Dec 2020
Biotechnology is plainly advancing rapidly, and by 2020 there will be thousands-even millions-of people with the capability to cause a catastrophic biological disaster. My concern is not only organized terrorist groups, but individual weirdos with the mindset of the people who now design computer viruses. Even if all…