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Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
Opera for computers is the first major browser that integrates a built-in ad blocking solution. For better browsing experience, download Opera beta today!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,414 posts.
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LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
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More Chinese Mobile UI Trends
Another look through mobile UI design patterns in the Middle Kingdom.
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Agility Requires Safety
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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The Basics of Web Application Security
Security is both very important and often under-emphasized. While many targeted techniques help, there are some basic clean code habits which every developer can and should be doing
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Learn about the journey navigating through over 100 job interviews, and finally achieving a highly coveted job opportunity at Booking.com.
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Zen Magnets Wins CPSC Case
TL;DR: Zen Magnets won the 2014 hearing. Judge concludes proper use of magnets creates no danger. Some recalls . Still no Zen Magnets to sell.
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Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
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Web Scraping to Create Open Data
Web Scraping to Create Open Data - Embrace the power of web scraping in generating open data. Contribute to the open data movement.
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CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy. We are now thrilled to launch CockroachDB beta.
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Introducing Safari Technology Preview
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
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Ubuntu on Windows -- The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers
Update: Here's how to get started using Ubuntu on Windows See also Scott Hanselman's blog here I'm in San Francisco this week, attendin...
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Ubuntu on Windows
Update: Here's how to get started using Ubuntu on Windows See also Scott Hanselman's blog here I'm in San Francisco this week, attendin...
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Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10
UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well ...
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Asana
I’m delighted to finally be investing in Asana, which I’ve wanted to do for a long time. One of the things I’ve learned about companies is that 1) clear tasks and goals, 2) clearly communicated,...
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The Trouble with Tor
The Tor Project makes a browser that allows anyone to surf the Internet anonymously. Tor stands for "the onion router" and that describes how the service works. Traffic is routed through a number of relays where each relay only knows the next hop, not the ultimate destination.
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A Saner Windows Command Line
The default Windows command line experience is a little lacking. Let's supercharge it.
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Immutability is not enough
Immutable data structures – also known as persistent or purely functional data structures – are a key part of modern functional programming. Once created, immutable data structures cannot be modified. Instead, they support operations which efficiently produce a new copy of the structure with the desired changes…
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Why You Should Use Tumbleweed
People often ask me why they should use openSUSE Tumbleweed and how it compares to other distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu. The fact is Tumbleweed is actually rather hard, if not impossible to compare to Linux distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu.
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Stanford researchers show fracking's impact to drinking water sources
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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BMW are complying with the GPL
The good news follow-up rarely gets as much attention as the original bad-news story. Earlier this month I accidentally kicked off a minor kerfuffle over whether BMW was respecting the GPL. Their i3 car contains a huge amount of Open Source Software and there was some confusion as to BMW's compliance with the licence…
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Sortix 1.0 Operating System Released
I'm happy to announce the release of Sortix 1.0. This is the first self-hosting and installable release.
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Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
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Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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Lessons learned while protecting Gmail
Posted by Elie Bursztein - anti-abuse & security research, Nicolas Lidzborski - Gmail security engineering, and Vijay Eranti - Gmail anti-abus...
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Changes to Npm's unpublish policy
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog