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DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. For the 7th year we're making donations to organizations that share a similar vision.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
Guides for independent artists on music distribution and promotion, plus announcements and updates from DistroKid.
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Whither Swift?
I've been asking myself the question, what is Apple's plan for Swift and Objective-C? When Swift became public in 2014, its creator Chris Lattner seemed to claim that Swift and Objective-C would coexist indefinitely. From an xcode-users mailing list post:
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The Need for a Digital Geneva Convention
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Magic Leap: When Reality Hits the Fan
Largely A Summary With Some New Information I have covered a lot of material and even then only glossed at the surface of what I have learned about Magic Leap (ML). By combining the information ava…
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TruffleRuby on the Substrate VM
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
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Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
Members of the public can search a newly released database of 1,600 stars to find signs of undiscovered exoplanets. The dataset, taken over two decades by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, comes with an open-source software package and an online tutorial.
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Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily
Today Planet successfully launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit — the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
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Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming
Are you arguing that undefined behaviour should not be a thing in, e.g., C? It sounds like you’re claiming that the fabled sufficiently smart compiler could take code in a C-like language with no UB, and emit something equivalent to what a C compiler would produce given equivalent input in C that correctly avoids UB…
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The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History
We normally think of git merges as having two parent commits. For example, the most recent Linux kernel merge as I write this is commit 2c5d955, which is part of the run-up to release 4.10-rc6. It has two parents:
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The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing…
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