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R Passes SAS, but Python Leaves Them Both Behind
Examines market share or popularity of data science software by comparing the number of jobs available for each software package.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,470 posts.
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I spent three months working full time to get a job
A retrospective on the technical interview process based on three months of searching for a job.
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Decline of the Dad Job
Before I learnt to read I made sense of the world by conjuring up images in my mind, particularly for abstract concepts. I could count before I could read and had an image for each number. Many of …
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A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode
Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!
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JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer
Legal Issues in Open Source Software Development2017172 points67 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Common legal challenges and effective strategies in open source software development. Ensure your projects are legally sound & compliant
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Sexism at Uber from Female Management
My last days at Uber in San Francisco were filled with disrespect, condescending managers, and sexism.
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The Amazing Power of Word Vectors (2016)
For today’s post, I’ve drawn material not just from one paper, but from five! The subject matter is ‘word2vec’ – the work of Mikolov et al. at Google on efficient vect…
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How to choose and pair typefaces
Pair typefaces effectively: Categorize fonts by properties. Use 3×3 grid method to find combinations.
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Mathematical Notation in Emacs
Any combination of these tools may be chosen; Fira Code is not required to utilize prettify-symbols or pretty-mode. Similarly, the entire Fira Code font is not required to use Fira’s ligatures.
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How I discovered my left AirPod was bad
tl;dr: My left AirPod had some hardware issue. I got a new one. Now the AirPods work great. The morning Apple's AirPods went up for sale, I was boarding a plane, and had just gotten to my seat on the plane. I knew they'd be in short supply (though I didn't know just how short—my local Apple Store only gets a small…
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AWS Lambda – Best practices
In this post we are going to go through the best practices while building an AWS Lambda function. In order to go through this blog you should know what is it and you should ideally have built at le…
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Removing everything from GitHub
Github recently drafted an update to their Terms Of Service. The new TOS is potentially very bad for copylefted Free Software. It potentially neuters it entirely, so GPL licensed software hosted on Github has an implicit BSD-like license. I'll leave the full analysis to the lawyers, but see Thorsten's analysis .
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The Other Half
On January 19th of this year, I set off to California to participate in a hastily-arranged appearance in a UCLA building to talk about saving climate data in the face of possible administrative swi…
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V8: A Tale of TurboFan
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.
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The myth of using Scala as a better Java
When people talk about their experience with Scala, they often say that it is possible to use Scala as a better Java. And indeed, many companies, especially the ones that adopted Scala around 2008-2009, didn't want to give up the familiar tooling and simply integrated Scala into existing workflows based on Maven. At…
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Compile-Time Evaluation in the Zig System Programming Language
Zig places importance on the concept of whether an expression is known at compile-time. There are a few different places this concept is used, and these building blocks are used to keep the language small, readable, and powerful.
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Satirical Summaries of Hacker News
Does anyone have any questions about NAFTA for my PSYCHIC PIG?
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
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How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?
Most commodity processors support single-precision IEEE 754 floating-point numbers. Though they are ubiquitous, they are often misunderstood. One of my readers left a comment suggesting that picking an integer in [0,232) at random and dividing it by 232, was equivalent to picking a number at random in [0,1). I am not…
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Two-part Rubik's algorithms
When Rubik’s Cube first appeared decades ago, I jumped on it. I bought one, and spent an entire summer fiddling with it. Over that summer, I developed a solving technique that has stuck with me. My technique is not the fastest; that was never the goal. My algorithms make sense to me because they are constructed, and…
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CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called "Cayla" over fears hackers could target children [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/germany-bans-internet-connected-dolls-fears-hackers-could-target/] . One of