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Three teen sisters who win medals in coding competitions
Elene first lit up the path toward coding for her sisters Mari and Ani. We learn how the sisters have achieved so much at such a young age.
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NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
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Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library
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England and Wales House Price Analysis
The last time I looked at house prices it went pretty well, and I ended up winning a data science competition. There I was only dealing with a million or so records, and a relatively small 120 MB dataset. Then I found out it was possible to download 3.7GB of property sale records for all of England and Wales since…
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Off the Grid
This shouldn’t be a blog. It really shouldn’t be a blog. But it has to be a blog I think. So here is this blog.
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Git Tips
Table of Contents: I’ve been using git full time for the past 4 years, and I wanted to share the most practical tips that I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully, it will be useful to somebody out there.
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Apple’s Organizational Crossroads
A core part of what makes Apple Apple is its organization structure; Tim Cook has said it will never change. However, if Apple is serious about being a services company, change it must.
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Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses
Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its...
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EFF Sues for Court Orders Requiring Tech Cos to Decrypt Users’ Communications
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit today against the Justice Department to shed light on whether the government has ever used secret court orders to force technology companies to decrypt their customers’ private communications, a...
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Curing Our Slack Addiction
Expert articles, security news, product updates, guides, and research from 1Password on password management, privacy, and digital security.
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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
We are excited to announce our partnership with DigitalOcean, the world’s simplest cloud infrastructure provider.
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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]
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Azure Container Service is now generally available
I’m excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Container Service; the simplest, most open and flexible way to run your container applications in the cloud.
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A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the…
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Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro
I was part of the first ever group of foreigners given access to all stations across both lines of the Pyongyang Metro. Here's my experience!
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Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new product will fit in the broad palette of content distribution…
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Telegram to award grants to bot developers
Win $25K or more for your Telegram bot – @durov is giving away 1 million dollars to devs in 2016.
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Boosting zopfli performance
Introduction Deflate compression has been around for over 20 years. It's the format used inside most ZIP files. It's used by HTTP to redu...
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Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mitten
In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried…
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Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code
Developing a speech-to-text bot using IBM’s Supercomputer.
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How a Diode Changed My Life
When you are a child, everything seems fascinating, almost everything is magical because you don't know the boundaries of what you have to discover yet.