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A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 milestone in 2017
Crystal has gone a long way since we started it over five years ago. What was once an experiment to see if it was possible to have a compiled yet Ruby-like language, is now a trending language with over 7,000 GitHub stargazers and almost 1,400 shards. Its popularity has risen considerably in the last few years, and we…
Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 1
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Machine Learning Crash Course: Part 2
Machine Learning at Berkeley is a student organization at UC Berkeley. Click to read ML@B Blog, by Machine Learning at Berkeley, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
See what we learned running technical interviewing for over 3,000 software engineers.
Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)
The dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983, was an also-ran.
Teleport 1.3 adds support for SSH authentication with U2F keys
We are excited to announce that Teleport now supports Universal 2nd Factor out of the box.
A Guide to Deep Learning
YerevaNN /jɛɾɛvɑnˈɛn/ is a machine learning research center based in Yerevan, Armenia.
Nintendo releases original Zelda design docs
See the original The Legend of Zelda as you never have before…
Vue in 2016
It’s already end of 2016! During the past 12 months, Vue’s growth has been consistently exceeding my expectations — the project has grown…
Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
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Darktable 2.2.0 released
we’re proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.2.0. as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the sha256 checksum is…
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (2007)
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
Vera Rubin has died
Rubin confirmed the existence of dark matter—the invisible material that makes up more than 90% of the mass of the universe.
How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics
Find out how referral spam in Google Analytics can be produced, why anybody would take time to do that and personality behind the latest spam wave.
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
News and Project Updates!
Rogue One – An Engineering Ethics Story
Written by Zachary G. Pirtle. Originally published anonymously. Reflects my views alone. This post went viral when published in 2016, with comments by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing , Marginal Revolution, and others. I’ve published other research on science fiction and policy that I discuss on my a
Self Healing Code with clojure.spec
Works On My Machine is the place where Cognitects reflect on tech, culture, and the work we do. The views expressed on Works On My Machine are those of the a...
LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was
We aren't going anywhere.
The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)
If you have been paying attention on Twitter recently, you have likely seen some increasing numbers regarding the number of simultaneous connections the Phoenix web framework can handle. This post documents some of the techniques used to perform the benchmarks.
Ruby 2.4.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0.