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Ask a Female Engineer: Employees with Kids and Relationships at Work
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DTrace for Linux 2016
DTrace for Linux 2016: announcing a major milestone: the final kernel capabilities have merged in Linux 4.9-rc1 to enhanced BPF (eBPF) to provide an advanced programmable dynamic tracer similar to DTrace.
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Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the…
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Microsoft, I Forgive You
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
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Open Salaries: Outcomes
What happens when you give employees control of their own salaries? A lot of great things, actually.
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A Quantum Leap for the Web
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
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CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web
Introducing CoinTent
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Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices
While there are countless examples of DMCA abuse, sometimes a story stands out. Last week, Samsung sent a series of takedown notices aimed at videos showing a GTA V mod in action. The modification replaced an in-game weapon with an exploding Samsung phone. Whether you think these videos are...
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Git from the inside out
This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects.
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Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery
Publishing misleading performance benchmarks is a classic old guard marketing tactic. It’s not surprising to see old guard companies (like Oracle) doing this, but we were kind of surprised to see Google take this approach, too. So, when Google presented their BigQuery vs. Amazon Redshift benchmark results at a private…
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced The Engine, a new kind of enterprise designed to support startup companies working on scientific and technological innovation with the potential for transformative societal impact.
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Building an Open Source Service
What does Open Source mean at Sentry? We're refreshing our commitment to open source and how we build Sentry.
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Technical Issues of Separation in Lisp Function Cells and Value Cells (1988)
This paper appears in Lisp and Symbolic Computation , Volume 1, No. 1, June 1988, pp81-101.
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Supercharging Style Transfer
Posted by Vincent Dumoulin*, Jonathon Shlens and Manjunath Kudlur, Google Brain TeamPastiche. A French word, it designates a work of art that imita...
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Parsing JSON is a Minefield
[2016-10-26] First version of the article [2016-10-28] Presentation at Soft-Shake Conference, Geneva ( slides ) [2016-11-01] Article and comments in The Register [2017-11-16] Presentation at Black Alps Security Conference, Yverdon ( slides ) [2018-03-09] Presentation at Toulouse Hacking Conference ( slides )…
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Why does software development take so long?
Nageru 1.4.0 is out (and on its way through the Debian upload process right now), so now you can do live video mixing with multichannel audio to your heart's content. I've already blogged about most of the interesting new features, so instead, I'm trying to answer a question: What took so long?
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Task_t considered harmful
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroThis post discusses a design issue at the core of the XNU kernel ...
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Mobile App Launch Checklist
Explore Branch guides, reports, case studies, webinars, podcasts, and practical resources for deep linking, attribution, mobile measurement, and app growth.
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Applying the Linus Torvalds “Good Taste” Coding Requirement
In a recent interview with Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, at approximately 14:20 in the interview, he made a quick point about…
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macOS Sierra Leaks Image of MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar
Welp, it is real. These images are straight out of System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PassKitUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources on my Mac running 10.12.1: There’s a lot to parse here. Clearly, the rumors of a Magic Toolbar are all correct, as well the inclusion of Touch ID to the right of the Toolbar. It looks like…
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How Generalised Problems Kill Startups
It’s crazy how often I hear founders say ‘I think the problem we’re really solving is X’. Hang on a second… You ‘think’? The surprising…
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Laid off (2008)
Here is my one piece of advice to you. The single most important thing to do as soon as you make it back to your house with that box full of stuff:
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Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]
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Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
The newest addition to G Suite, Jamboard is a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas and create without boundaries.