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RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,304 posts.
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Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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Grunt 1.0.0 released
This release is made possible by @shama , @vladikoff , @jkaussieskater , @dmethvin .
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AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
Serverless computing is the new buzzword. AWS describes Lambda (their implementation of Serverless) as the way how you’ll do things post containers. Go figure …
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Rust via its Core Values
I have a couple of ideas about learning programming languages. The first is that we do it wrong. I’m sure you’ve experienced this. You try learning a new language and can’t quite see how it all works. Why do I use this syntax here and some other syntax over here? We get frustrated by all the weird bits and go back to…
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Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.
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Apple II DOS source code
Unlike the Apple I, the Apple II was fully assembled and ready to use with any display monitor. The version with 4K of memory cost $1298. It had color, graphics, sound, expansion slots, game paddles, and a built-in BASIC programming language.
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Hotpatching a C Function on x86
In this post I’m going to do a silly, but interesting, exercise that should never be done in any program that actually matters. I’m going write a program that changes one of its function definitions while it’s actively running and using that function. Unlike last time , this won’t involve shared libraries, but it will…
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LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
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Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors
I don’t use CSS preprocessors they way many people do. Here’s an attempt to explain why.
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CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy. We are now thrilled to launch CockroachDB beta.
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Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10
UPDATE: I've recorded a 30 min video with developers from the project as well ...
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A Saner Windows Command Line
The default Windows command line experience is a little lacking. Let's supercharge it.
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Immutability is not enough
Immutable data structures – also known as persistent or purely functional data structures – are a key part of modern functional programming. Once created, immutable data structures cannot be modified. Instead, they support operations which efficiently produce a new copy of the structure with the desired changes…
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Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
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Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation
Bootstrap 4 and Foundation 6 are the latest versions of the most widely used CSS frameworks out there. Foundation 6 is stable whereas Bootstrap 4 hasn’t been released yet. However, before you wonder why I am comparing a stable framework version vs an alpha one, let me set the record straight by saying that Bootstrap 4…
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HIPAA 101 for Software Development Teams
Everything you need to know about HIPAA compliance, from the basics to infrastructure requirements to building with AI.
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Python Virtual Environments – a Primer
Create isolated project setups on all platforms, and gain a deep understanding of Python's virtual environments created with the venv module.
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Moving Beyond the OOP Obsession
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.