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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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German for Programmers
After 2 years of learning German I’ve noticed that, for the most part, you can go a long way by mapping foreign concepts to ones that you already know. In particular, I’ve had success mapping aspects of German grammar to programming concepts I use every day. After all, programmers deal with weird grammars all the…
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Why are we templating YAML?
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
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Auditing Rust Crypto: The First Hours
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
Everyone is angry about CSS again. I’m not even going to try to summarize the arguments. However it always seems to boil down to the fact that CSS is simultaneously too easy to bother with, yet so hard it needs to be wrapped up in a ball of JavaScript in case it scares the horses. ... HTML, CSS and our vanishing…
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Open-Sourcing ClusterFuzz
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
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Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play
Spotify is making a major move into podcasts, where it appears to have clear designs to be the sort of Aggregator it cannot be when it comes to music.
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The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
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App Analysis: Air Canada
This blog series focuses on the collection of device data by various popular mobile apps. Data is often collected in the name of advertising, error monitoring, fraud detection, and social media integration.
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How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
As I was playing few days ago with “yield return await“ I got an idea to try fit as much “keywords” as possible into one “expression”. I mean as much blue words (in Visual Studio’s default colors) as possible together (not separated by semicolon, comma, colon, bracket, etc.).
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Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
At Benchling, we’re building a platform to help scientists do research. Hundreds of thousands of scientists across academia and enterprise…
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Clojure - Deps and CLI Guide
In all the above scenarios you might want to use other Clojure and Java libraries (dependencies or 'deps'). These may be libraries you are writing locally, projects in git (e.g. on GitHub) or, commonly, libraries available in the Maven ecosystem and hosted by central repositories like Maven Central or Clojars.
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The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...
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Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018—$845 million—on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.
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Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails
This blog post focusses on Chapter 4 about Implicit Priming in Kahneman's book "Thinking" Fast and Slow." A review of the book and other chapters can be found here: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ Daniel Kahneman's response to this blog…
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Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
Learning from mistakes—your own and those made by others—is a mark of effective organizations. Fostering a learning environment means seeing every...
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There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings
In February 2018, my wife & I decided to embark on a gruelling quest: to watch all three Lord of the Rings films (extended editions, of course), while attempting to eat everything that got eaten on screen. We were doing it in memory of my parents, who had both recently died, and who had loved both LOTR and good food…
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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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Compounding Knowledge
The filing cabinet of knowledge stored in Warren Buffett’s brain has helped make him the most successful investor of our time. But it takes much more than reading a lot. In this article, learn how to create your own “snowball effect” to compound what you know into opportunity.
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DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering
If you’re a programmer, a systems administrator, or really any type of IT worker, you probably have your favorite go-to IP addresses for troubleshooting.
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With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release! What Are Hooks? Hooks let you use state and other React features without writing a class. You can also build your own Hooks to share reusable stateful logic between…