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GCC 4.8.0 released
The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.8.5.
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What really happened at PyCon 2013
We are hearing a lot about what happened at PyCon 2013, but most of what is being passed around tells only a tiny part of what really happened. Here’s how PyCon went for me this year: The Ed…
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Making EmberJS Easier
We frequently receive feedback from new developers about how frustrating it can be to get started with Ember. Yesterday, one of the most active comment threads on Hacker News was largely about that....
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GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured
With the imminent release of gcc 4.8, GCC has finally switched to C++ as the implementation language. As usual, LWN has excellent coverage. Those with long memories will remember Linux trying to use g++ back in 1992 and retreating in horror at the larger, slower code. The main benefit was stricter typechecking…
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk
Build a Twilio Hard Phone with Twilio SIP, Raspberry Pi, Asterisk, FreePBX, and the Obihai OBi100
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Introducing "Functional JavaScript"
A few years ago I got the idea that it would be fun to implement a variant of Scheme targeting the JVM. During my search for different ways to implement numerics I looked deeply at the implementation of two languages: JScheme and a little-known language Clojure . During my explorations with these two languages and the…
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Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
We’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to the Atlassian distributed version control system (DVCS) family – Sourcetree for Windows. Sourcetree is a free Git desktop client for developers on Windows. Say goodbye to the command line and use the full capabilities of Git through Sourcetree’s beautifully simple…
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Computer Science in Vietnam
During my recent trip to Vietnam I took the opportunity to visit some schools and see how computer science was taught there. Officially, foreigners require permission from the department of education to enter schools. But it's much simpler (and the results are more representative) to simply show up unannounced. A…
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GCC 4.8 release
GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the C++ conversion page.
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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
Chronos: A Replacement for Cron By Florian Leibert, Harry Shoff, & Andy Kramolisch Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos …
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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
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Clojure: All grown up
I'm a Product Manager at Google. I use data and UX to drive great products. And it turns out—the toughest problems are won in translation.
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Coding with gumption
The first and only mention of Gumption Theory in modern writing is found towards the end of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author sets out a plain and uncomplicated approach to attaining and maintaining the state of mind required to repair a motorcycle. It takes about 20 pages. And the…
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The Pull Request Hack
After writing about Open Source And Responsibility , I’d like to share a small collaboration hack I came up with last year. Here it is:
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Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This ...
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
A beginner's guide to getting started with web scraping using Python and BeautifulSoup.