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Introducing FreeNAS Corral
In the TrueNAS blog, discover the latest in scalable data storage solutions. Stay updated on the latest innovations in TrueNAS technology.
Benchmark of 100 crowdfunding videos reveals what works and how much to spend
How much should you spend on your Kickstarter video? Indiegogo video? We asked 100 campaigns and found that video budgets vary between $0k-$100k and increase with campaign size. Read on to learn what budget, length, location, tone is best for your Kickstarter video, Indiegogo video
Reducing power consumption for background tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars . To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power ...
Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
LLC vs C Corps. Get valuable insights and learn how to protect your business from unwanted legal liabilities. Be ahead of the competition.
Introducing Keras 2
Keras was released two years ago, in March 2015. It then proceeded to grow from one user to one hundred thousand.
Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks
Computer programs that learn to perform tasks also typically forget them very quickly. We show that the learning rule can be modified so that a program can remember old tasks when learning a new one. This is an important step towards more intelligent programs that are able to learn progressively and adaptively.
Some fun with π in Julia
A Pi Day tour of π in Julia: how Julia represents π, computing it with inline assembly and Taylor series (Madhava and Machin), and finding guaranteed bounds with interval arithmetic.
Scala Native v0.1
We’re excited to announce the first release of Scala Native , an optimising ahead-of-time compiler for Scala built on top of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
JSON Web Tokens should be avoided
JWT, JWE, JWS, etc. are terrible designs and need to be scrapped, not resuscitated.
The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)
What follows is a set of short essays that collectively encourage a philosophy of clarity in programming rather than giving hard rules. I don't expect you to agree with all of them, because they are opinion and opinions change with the times. But they've been accumulating in my head, if not on paper until now, for a…
We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
EFF Applauds Amazon for Pushing Back on Request for Echo Data
The number of Internet-enabled sensors in homes across the country is steadily increasing. These sensors are collecting personal information about what’s going on inside the home, and they are doing so in a volume and detail never before possible. The law, of course, has not kept up. There are no...
The Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your internet history
Protection of your Internet history is up in the air thanks to new, pending legislation. A new bill coming before Senate aims to completely dismantle the
Reaching new records in speech recognition
IBM Watson Speech to Text converts audio into accurate text, enabling real-time transcription, captions and insights with scalable AI APIs.
Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
Goodbye Mac App Store
While Jettison and HistoryHound are still supported and sold on the St. Clair Software website, I’ve pulled them from the Mac App Store. The versions that were in the Mac App Store were older revisions, and it just didn’t make business sense to rearchitect the apps to meet Apple’s current requirements for approval so…
The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet
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How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud
Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)
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