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NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
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A Container Is a Function Call
There’s something missing from the Docker ecosystem: a type-checker.
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The Four Flaws of Haskell
Summary: Last year I made a list of four flaws with Haskell. Most have improved significantly over the last year. No language/compiler ecosy...
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Python packaging is good now
setup.py is your friend. It’s real sorry about what happened last time.
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right.
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135M messages a second between processes in Java (2013)
Taking a lock free queue off heap and using it as an IPC mechanism to deliver 135M messages a second between processes in Java.
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PyPy Tooling Upgrade: JitViewer and VMProf
We are happy to announce a major JitViewer (JV) update. JV allows you to inspect RPython's internal compiler representation (the language i...
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Two Weeks of Colorizebot
About two weeks ago we released ColorizeBot to wander around Reddit. This Reddit bot has started by coloring images on r/OldSchoolCool and a day after, spread all over Reddit. The bot was based on a pre-trained neural network - More information on the netwrok can be found here. After
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Machine Learning Exercises in Python, Part 1
KOITOTO LOGIN menghadirkan akses cepat, aman, dan praktis untuk pengalaman hiburan online modern dengan navigasi responsif, performa stabil, serta kenyamanan maksimal setiap waktu.
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Zero-cost futures in Rust
One of the key gaps in Rust’s ecosystem has been a strong story for fast and productive asynchronous I/O . We have solid foundations, like the mio library, but they’re very low level: you have to wire up state machines and juggle callbacks directly.
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ProtonMail now the maintainer of OpenPGPjs email encryption library
OpenPGPjs is the world's most popular JavaScript PGP email encryption library and is used by millions of end users and hundreds of developers.
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Python 3 on Google App Engine flexible environment now in beta
Developers running Python on Google App Engine have long asked for support for Python 3 and third-party Python packages. Today we're excited to announce the beta release of the Python runtime on App Engine Flexible Environment with support for Python 3.4 and 2.7. You can now develop applications in the Python version…
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Type Punning Functions in C
C has a reputation for being inflexible. But did you know you can change the argument order of C functions if you don't like them?
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From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
Three years ago, I downloaded the nascent Scala.js compiler and tried to use it on a toy project.
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Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages
Distributed computing and designing a system that supports modern commerce and other high-priority applications remains one of the most difficult tasks in computing. We provide expert tips.
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PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support
"Python 2.x versus Python 3.x": this is by now an old question. In the eyes of some people Python 2 is here to stay, and in the eyes of oth...
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APL Tutorial
Interested in learning about APL? Have you heard of this exciting language with strange characters and incredible brevity? Look no further, here you will find an introduction to the language, and even understanding from a historical perspective.
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Version 11 of Mathematica
Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11 released Aug 8, 2016. 3D printing, machine learning & neural networks, audio. Available for desktop, cloud.
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How my open source hobby project became my job: 10 years of OptaPlanner
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A x64 OS #1: UEFI
I briefly cover what it takes to start writing a kernel which bootstraps in UEFI, as opposed to BIOS.
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Throughput vs. Latency and Lock-Free vs. Wait-Free
On the previous post we showed an excellent presentation by Cliff Click, and one of the things he mentions is that there is performance for ...
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Notes on concurrency bugs
Do concurrency bugs matter? From the literature, we know that most reported bugs in distributed systems have really simple causes and can be caught by trivial tests, even when we only look at bugs that cause really bad failures, like loss of a cluster or data corruption. The filesystem literature echos this result …
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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
Migrating from GitHub to GitLab and setting up your own GitLab instance