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What happens to developers who never go into management?
What if you never take that promotion?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Kropotkin escapes from prison
On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.
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0-Day Vulnerability on Log4j
Learn about the Log4j vulnerability and how you can combat it. Read this comprehensive guide to get actionable tips.
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The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
Anyone following my Twitter could have seen me complaining about things happening around Python build systems frequently. The late changes feel like people around the Python packaging ecosystem hav…
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Scala at scale at Databricks
Explore how Databricks leverages Scala for large-scale data processing, enhancing performance and developer productivity.
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How do you fix a stroad?
We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.
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Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chrome’s Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks.
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Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B
Following our Series A announcement earlier this year, I'm thrilled to announce that we raised Series B financing from new and existing investors. This year alone we've doubled our user base to reach 10m+ users, tripled concurrent containers on our network, and grew traffic to sites and apps on the network by orders…
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Tailwind CSS v3.0
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here — bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features.
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HashiCorp IPO today
As we officially enter the public markets, we plan to continue to do what we think we do best: solving problems for our end users.
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Stack Graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
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“Free PACER” bill advances through Senate judiciary unanimously
The Senate Judiciary Committee today by voice vote advanced the Open Courts Act (S. 2614), a bill that would modernize the federal judiciary’s case management system and — finally — make access to court filings free for all Americans.
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eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
eBPF Service Mesh - How we can build an eBPF-based service mesh in the kernel to replace the complex sidecar model
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Number of journalists in jail reaches global high
Editor’s note: Numbers for each prison census are adjusted yearly as CPJ learns of arrests, releases, or deaths in prison. The numbers for CPJ’s 2021 census have been revised from 293 to 302 in accordance with this policy. For the most recent data, see cpj.org/data/imprisoned/ The number of journalists jailed around…
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE’s ‘Computer’ magazine..
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Gopher – A 280B parameter language model
Language, and its role in demonstrating and facilitating comprehension - or intelligence - is a fundamental part of being human. It gives people the ability to communicate thoughts and concepts, express ideas, create memories, and build mutual understanding. These are foundational parts of social intelligence. It’s…
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PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
We had a great talk with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Enjoy full interview on our website.
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Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
Preliminary laboratory studies demonstrate that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine neutralize the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529 lineage) while two doses show significantly reduced neutralization titers Data indicate that a third dose of BNT162b2 increases the neutralizing antibody titers by 25-fold…
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Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more
Today's update brings tools to prevent others from saving content from groups and channels, the ability to delete messages for specific periods of time, new ways to manage your connected devices, post anonymously in public groups on behalf of your channel and more.
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MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua
This is quite the big update: you can now choose from 4 programming languages for your microStudio project: **microScript**, **Python**, **JavaScript** or **Lua**! All this still from your web browser. With any of these 4 languages, you have access to all the microStudio goodness: live edit your code, live help and…
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Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
Será imposible identificar los retos que enfrentan los jóvenes si no podemos estudiar correctamente cómo estos interactúan en línea. Más de 200 académicos se adhieren a este manifiesto
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Firefox 95 Released
RLBox — a new technology that hardens Firefox against potential security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries — is now enabled on all platforms.
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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
UPDATE 1/5/2022: We have begun rolling out the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Wi
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