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Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code
The Eclipse Foundation - home to a global community, the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools and frameworks.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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Back-of-the-envelope estimates of next quarter’s unemployment rate
Layoffs are certainly one of the effects of battling COVID-19. What sort of unemployment rate might we see in the second quarter of 2020?
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Gitlab features that are moving to open source
We're open sourcing rich functionality across Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Protect.
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Dolt is Git for data
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Updates to form controls and focus
HTML form controls provide the backbone for much of the web's interactivity. They're easy for developers to use, have built-in accessibilit...
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Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library
Last Tuesday we launched a National Emergency Library—1.4M digitized books available to users without a waitlist—in response to the rolling wave of school and library closures that remain in place to date. We’ve received dozens of messages of thanks from teachers and school librarians, who can now help their students…
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Open access to ACM Digital Library during coronavirus pandemic
For the next 3 months, through 6/30/20, ACM is making all work published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library freely accessible.
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Towards Crystal 1.0
Currently the main goal of the Crystal core team is to reach 1.0 in the near future. Since achieving that goal involves a number of non-obvious tradeoffs, we want to use this post to shed some light on those inherent tensions and how they drive our work and priorities for the next few releases.
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Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
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PostgreSQL Schema Design
The Postgres database is rich with features well beyond that of any other
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The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
Update 10/1/2020: The EARN IT bill has been amended since this blog post was published. We still oppose the bill.Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely...
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Affinity Designer: A Love Story
As I found out, Affinity Designer is a worthy rival to Adobe's sacred trinity for designers: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
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Static Analysis in GCC 10
Discover the new -fanalyzer option coming to GCC 10 that provides a static analysis pass to identify problems at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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OneWeb files for bankruptcy
Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO satellite constellation delivers global, low-latency, high-speed connectivity on land, at sea, and in the air.
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FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
Available on the portable ID NOW platform, Abbott's molecular COVID-19 test delivers results in minutes in a variety of healthcare settings.
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Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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The theory of infectious origin of the Alzheimer’s disease
The theory of infectious origin of the Alzheimer's disease The hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease has an infectious origin, has a long and
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$800M to support small businesses and crisis response
Our commitment to support small- and medium-sized businesses, health organizations and governments, and health workers.
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Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance
There is a plethora of data and research available that outlines *exactly* how companies can build a hiring process for software engineers that's truly predictive of their future, on-the-job performance. Yet, the tech industry at large has all but ignored these practices opting instead for antiquated hiring processes…
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Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
Apple today released a new screening tool and resources to help people stay informed and protect their health during the spread of COVID-19.
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SBA Disaster Loans: Unofficial guide for freelancers and startups
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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the ful…
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The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
Today, The New York Times has made one of the most comprehensive datasets of coronavirus cases in the United States publicly available in response to requests from researchers, scientists…
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Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates
This page is updated regularly as new information emerges. It sets out the current Case Fatality Rate (CFR) estimates, the country-specific issues affecting the CFR, and provides a current best estimate of the CFR, and more importantly, the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR).
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Our list of free software for remote work
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Use a Decision Journal
If you feel overwhelmed by the choices you need to make, it's time to start using a decision journal. Learn how this simple practice can change the way you think and perform.
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Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
The PCR diagnostic platform Vivalytic enables COVID-19 rapid tests — a blessing for Clemens Weller and his mother, who suffers from dementia. Learn more!
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New hard drive rituals (2018)
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat your data at any time. Entire businesses are built around their…
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Kubernetes 1.18
We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18 is a "fit and finish" release. Significant work has gone into improving beta…