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A Minimalist Guide to SQLite
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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HAProxy 1.8
The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.
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We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions
We want to make it even easier for everyone to contribute, by doing away with our Contributor License Agreement in favor of the Developer's Certificate of Origin.
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Fooling Neural Networks in the Physical World with 3D Adversarial Objects
We've developed an approach to generate 3D adversarial objects that reliably fool neural networks in the real world, no matter how the objects are looked at.
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Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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I'm Joining Report URI
What if I told you... that you can get visitors to your site to automatically check for a bunch of security issues. And then, when any are found, those visitors will let you know about it automatically. And the best bit is that you can set this up in a
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Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine
Project Loom's mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today's requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the separate question of communication among threads) which is being…
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Chuck Moore, Extreme Programmer
If you have read any of Chuck Moore's work, you know that he is an extreme programmer in the literal sense of the word: a unique philosophy that embraces small, fast, self-contained programs in a spare language and an impressive development environment. But as I read the opening sections of Moore's book Programming a…
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The Evolving Economics of Bitcoin, Gold and Fiat Currencies
Find information for Bitcoin Futures Contract Specs provided by CME Group. View Contract Specs
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The two questions I ask every interviewer
Applying the engineering process to software interviews
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GCP arrives in India with launch of Mumbai region
The first GCP region in India is now open for you to build applications and store your data.
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Permissionless innovation
People sometimes ask me, “What is the most important concept in political economy?” The answer is easy, but subtle …
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I can no longer recommend MailChimp
MailChimp doesn’t seem to think double opt-in is a good idea for mailing lists anymore.
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Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow
Posted by Asim Shankar and Wolff Dobson, Google Brain Team UPDATE, April 3 2018: Please see the official user guide for more up-to-date code examp...
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Standalone Signal Desktop
Signal Desktop is now available in a new, standalone form, and the Chrome App has been deprecated.
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Do we need a third Apache project for columnar data representation?
Apache Parquet and Apache ORC have become a popular file formats for storing data in the Hadoop ecosystem. Their primary value proposition ...
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An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise
Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee.
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An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling
Language models assign probability values to sequences of words. Those three words that appear right above your keyboard on your phone that try to predict the next word you’ll type are one of the uses of language modeling. In the case shown below, the language model is predicting that “from”, “on” and “it” have a high…
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Why TDD isn't crap
After my recent vitriol about unit testing, a couple of people sent me Why TDD is Crap as a thorough debunking of TDD and unit testing. As someone very interested in software correctness, I ended up writing a debunking of his debunking. Transcriptions will be in quotes, my responses below. Some important notes: From…
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Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode
The unit Energy and Materials Transition will focus primarily on the themes of a sustainable energy system and sustainable industry, including circularity.
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Racket v6.11
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.11 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ A bug preventing OneDrive users on Windows 10 Fall Creators update from opening files has been fixed. Typed Racket supports refinement types and depe...
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Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share some of the apologies
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Implementing VisiCalc (2003)
I'm writing this in preparation for the Computer History Museum's The Origins and Impact of VisiCalc panel on April 8th 2003. This is basically a draft and I hope to do some more editing as time permits and you should expect many typos until then. I'm also going to continue to edit and change this as I remember…