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Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
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Debian 10.7 Released
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
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R adds native pipe and lambda syntax
‘all.equal(f, g)’ for ‘function’s now by default also compares their ‘environment(.)’s, notably via new ‘all.equal’ method for class ‘function’. Comparison of ‘nls()’ fits, e.g., may now need ‘all.equal(m1, m2, check.environments=FALSE)’.
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Benefits of Walking
There has been too much research that showed that walking has a huge advantage to humans
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Book publishers call on Apple to match 15% commission granted to developers
(Manhattan Beach, CA - December 2, 2020) -- On November 18, Apple announced the App Store Small Business Program to help small businesses and independent developers. The program reduces Apple’s commission from 30% to 15% for small software publishers earning up to $1 million in proceeds in the Apple App Store.
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Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
Explore data on COVID-19 excess mortality across the world.
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Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
Project Loom is one of the major “projects” in which Java is moved forward, alongside the perhaps better known projects Amber and Valhalla. It will bring “virtual” threads with low resource footprint and low cost of blocking to the Java plaform. Here is my annual advent season update, this time with a focus on…
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
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Supabase Beta: Auth, SQL Editor, Benchmarks
Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.
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AWS just went multi-cloud
Confirmed: EKS Anywhere will support workloads on Azure and GCP. As predicted: AWS hearts multi-cloud. Forrest Brazeal @re:Invent 2020
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Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Which one runs faster? Puppeteer, Playwright, WebDriverIO or Selenium? We ran our own benchmark to find out.
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What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)
Better tooling, export maps and improvements to slots and context
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TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
Our TimescaleDB vs Amazon Timestream results surprised us, but after intensive testing, we found Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key capabilities.
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Taking PHP Seriously (2016)
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles
Circles is a surveillance firm that reportedly exploits weaknesses in the global mobile phone system to snoop on calls, texts, and the location of phones around the globe, and is affiliated with NSO Group, which develops the oft-abused Pegasus spyware. Using Internet scanning, we found a unique signature associated…
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Materialize Raises a $32M Series B
Materialize secures Series B funding to enhance its Operational Data Warehouse with real-time streaming capabilities for immediate data action.
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Chris Lattner
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
Front is a B2B team email product, competitive with Zendesk and Intercom, with 137% net dollar retention. We value Front at $1.3B with a price per share of $11.
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Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency
When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch, our customers have used S3…
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An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroNOTE: This specific issue was fixed before the launch of Privacy-...
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Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Combination of #1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform will create the operating system for the new way to work,
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Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer
“The greatest force in legacy databases is inertia,” a widely regarded industry analyst once told me. Not superior functionality. Not better performance. Not lower cost. None of the above. Just inertia. Developers might say they prefer to run PostgreSQL to proprietary alternatives (and they do), but enterprises have…
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New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support
February 9, 2021: Post updated with the current regional availability of container image support for AWS Lambda. With AWS Lambda, you upload your code and run it without thinking about servers. Many customers enjoy the way this works, but if you’ve invested in container tooling for your development workflows, it’s not…
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