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Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation
At Lyft, scientists solve all kinds of optimization problems. While solvers can come in handy, there are times when complicated or…
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Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Power Progress Community (PPC), the association behind the creation of a ordenador portátil con procesador PowerPC , in this case the NXP T2080. The PowerPC instruction set has been recently released by IBM as open source and given to the Linux Foundation.
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Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation
In Firefox 70 we changed how pixels get to the screen on macOS. This allows us to do less work per frame when only small parts of the screen change. As a result, Firefox 70 drastically reduces the …
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Firefox 70
Firefox 70 is released today, and includes great new features such as secure password generation with Lockwise and the new Firefox Privacy Protection Report, as well as cool additions for ...
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An Intern's Experience with Rust
Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog . My job was to port a security critical network processing…
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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
Our push this year has been building privacy-centric features in our products that are on by default. With this move, we’re taking the guesswork out of h
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Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
Mailgun has acquired our European Competitor, Mailjet. To learn more about the acquisition, continue reading...
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Ghost 3.0
A new business model for publishing, a new architecture for software, and $5,000,000 of funding.
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The Internet of creation disappeared. Now we have surveillance and control
An interview with this specialist in human rights, technology and freedom of expression to discuss how today’s societies are advancing to the drumbeat of “digital colonialism”.
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Elm 0.19.1
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as once thought: An MIT study finds even the tallest ice cliffs are unlikely to collapse catastrophically and trigger a runaway ice sheet retreat.
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…
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Tina is not a CMS
Today, we’re excited to announce TinaCMS : an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based sites (Gatsby and Next.j...
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Working with Errors in Go 1.13
How to use the new Go 1.13 error interfaces and functions.
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The $10m Engineering Problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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International Repair Day
International Repair Day is an annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world.
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New pathfinding algorithm
New pathfinding algorithm Oxyd Last week we mentioned the change to make biters not collide with each other, but that wasn’t the only biter-related update we released this past week. Somewhat coincidentally, this week’s updates have included something I’d been working on for a few weeks before – an upgrade to the…
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The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways
Extinction isn’t just a biological issue. In the 21st century, it’s a technical, even digital one, too. The average web page might last three months before it’s altered or deleted forever. You never know when access to the information on these web pages is going to be needed. It might be three months from now;
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
CSS Grid has been available in most major browsers since early 2017, and it makes web layout more powerful than ever before. But complex-looking new syntax (line-names! grid-areas! minmax! fit-content! ...
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Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
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Microsoft’s visual data explorer SandDance open sourced
SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub.
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Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch
Search Engine add-ons will be removed from AMO on December 5, 2019. To continue working, they must be converted to an extension using the WebExtensions API by December 3, 2019.
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Four kinds of documentation
Find the software documentation system for Divio. Includes comprehensive tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. Learn more here.
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