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Reasons not to use Uber
Uber donated a million dollars to the corrupter's inaugural celebration. This is the moral equivalent of a bribe.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,414 posts.
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Sandstorm now supports RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, and more
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles
Quote: Back in 80s, it was possible to calculate the speed of the program just by looking at assembly. Another Quote: keep in mind that these days compilers ...
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UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014)
AdamW on Linux and more
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What Percent of the Top-Voted Comments in Reddit Threads Were Also First Comment?
Are commenters ’late to this thread’ indeed late?
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Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
Is it Python 2 or 3 that gets the job done? We crunched the data to find out.
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Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models
Over the last six months, a powerful new neural network playbook has come together for Natural Language Processing. The new approach can be summarised as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode, attend, predict. This post explains the components of this new approach, and shows how they're put together in two recent…
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Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
Hi Folks! Meet David, the magnificent masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo at the start of the 16th century. A photo of his face with that curious furrowed brow featured on our very first anti-cyber…
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Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance
Jonan: Welcome everyone. Today we are doing an interview to talk about new features coming in Ruby 3. I am here with my coworker, Sasada Koichi san....
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TDD Doesn't Work
Yeah, an in-depth study that repeated another study that was done a few years back. Both showed that TDD doesn’t work. The new one uses a multi-site, blind analysis, approach. It looks conclusive.
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Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines
I've had this blog post in one form or another of draft for several years now. I hesitated to complete it, in part because at the best of times cultural observations can easily be misinterpreted and also in part because of the role I had in working with many
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Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer
It’s tempting to believe that taking your work home will make you a better software engineer, and that work/life balance will limit your learning. For some software developers programming isn’t just a job: it’s something to do for fun, sometimes even a reason for being. If you love coding and coding is your job, why…
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American Elections Will Be Hacked
It’s over. The voting went smoothly. As of the time of writing, there are no serious fraud allegations, nor credible evidence that anyone tampered with voting rolls or voting machines. And most important, the results are not in doubt. While we may breathe a collective sigh of relief about that, we can’t ignore the…
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Atom 1.12 released
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Seven years of Go
Happy 7th birthday, Go!
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Facebook demonstrates record-breaking data rate using millimeter-wave technology
Visit the post for more.
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Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8
One common complaint of Clojure REPLs is their [startup time](http://puredanger.github.io/tech.puredanger.com/2013/12/01/clj-problems/). Although that complaint is often somewhat unfounded (and related to tooling), it still takes the bare Clojure JAR about 1 second to start on new hardware…
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Dijkstra's Algorithm
I was at SCNA the other day, and someone approached me about TDD and Dijkstra’s algorithm. He wondered if you could find a sequence of tests that would lead you to the algorithm. This sounded like a fun little exercise, so I decided to give it a try here.
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Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
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Not Your Problem
Struggling to complete your game? Discover practical strategies to overcome distractions, stay focused, and manage your game development project effectively.