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WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly
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LLDB debugger is coming to Windows
We've spoken in the past about teaching Clang to fully support Windows and be compatible with MSVC. Until now, a big missing piece in this story has been debugging the clang-generated executables.
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Native Socket.IO and Android
In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!
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Gnome Wayland porting – the endgame
Its been a while since I mentioned Wayland in this space - of course that doesn't mean that work on GNOME Wayland support has stopped. Quite the opposite, in fact. The GNOME 3.15.4 release that is due this week will close a number of the remaining gaps: libinput 0.8 has been released, with most of...
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Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2
An important rule when building a highly available and highly reliable system is to design for failure. In other words, your design model should assume that, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has said, “everything fails all the time.” Fortunately, modern data centers, networks, and servers are highly reliable, and failures…
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How We Failed at OpenStack
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
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Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
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Why We Still Believe in Private Offices
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
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What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me
I like to think that I'm a pretty decent human being. Don't think I didn't hear that snort of derision...lighten up - I didn't say "perfect", I just said "prett
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SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
500+ domain extensions, 100+ plugins, and the best support team on the planet. We've been changing the domain industry since 2008, and we're only getting started.
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Octopress 3.0 is coming
The way Octopress is being distributed and maintained is nearing its end. There are many things I've always disliked about how Octopress works. So before I talk about the exciting part, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with Octopress.
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How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
Update 2014-01-16: Turn announced today they will suspend their zombie cookie program by early February, but left open the possibility to resume in the future. We ask that they end the program permanently.Verizon advertising partner Turn has been caught using Verizon Wireless's UIDH tracking header...
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DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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New, more powerful Google Translate app
Often the hardest part of traveling is navigating the local language. If you've ever asked for "pain" in Paris and gotten funny looks, confused "embarazada" with "embarr…
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Io.js 1.0.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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IBM Launches Z13 Mainframe
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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Errors are values
Idioms and patterns for handling errors in Go.