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SQLAlchemy 0.9.0 Released
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Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws
Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
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Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations
asm.js is a simple subset of JavaScript that is very easy to optimize, suitable for use as a compiler target from languages like C and C++. Earlier this year Firefox ...
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180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres
In one week last week, Code.org [http://code.org/]’s Hour of Code reached more than 15 million students [http://codeorg.tumblr.com/post/70175643054/stats] in 170 countries. Every major tech company promoted it, celebrities talked about it, and even the US President helped get the word out
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HipHop VM: now at 98.5% PHP framework parity, 16% faster
On November 4th, the HHVM team went on a 3-week performance and parity lockdown. The lockdown officially ended on November 22nd. Overall, this lockdown was a...
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Sublime Text 3 Build 3059
Build 3059 is now available. Full details, and downloads, are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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FasterCGI with HHVM
Today, we are happy to announce FastCGI support for HHVM. FastCGI is a popular protocol for communication between an application server (e.g. running your PH...
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What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014
Every few months, the Ember core team likes to get together to discuss issues face-to-face and set our priorities for the following quarter. This time, we all converged on Portland, Oregon...
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CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly
As reported by Cameron McCormack, Firefox Nightly (version 29) now supports CSS variables. You can get a quick overview in this short screencast: You can define variables in a ...
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About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
DevOps World Virtual 2024 celebrates 20 years of Jenkins and the future of DevSecOps, embracing cloud transformation and software for the AI-era.
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300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android
Every click interaction in mobile browsers is hampered with a 300ms delay, but that's gone in Chrome 32 for mobile-optimized sites!
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Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental
Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user's location or address book.[caption]The App Ops interface removed in...
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hop
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Server-generated JavaScript responses
The majority of Ajax operations in Basecamp are handled with Server-generated JavaScript Responses (SJR). It works like this: Form is submitted via a XMLHttpRequest-powered form. Server creates or updates a model object. Server generates a JavaScript response that includes the updated HTML templa…
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Panic Blog » The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
We’ve been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. It’s time to unravel that mystery. (Chung-chung!)
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released
Today we are thrilled to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 13, the next version of our award-winning Java IDE, is finally available for download.This year the IntelliJ IDEA team worked on building str
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Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algorithm, Not a Random One
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Go 1.2 is released
Go 1.2 adds test coverage results, goroutine preemption, and more.
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RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.11 ( Breakfast at Tiffany’s ), which improves the experience of operating live RethinkDB deployments. Download it now!
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Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.