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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
The :npm-deps compiler option now defaults to false . Previously, :npm-deps defaulted to true .
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
The questions we often hear are "Why create a new query language?" and "What's wrong with SQL?". This blog post contains answers to both.
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Faster arithmetic by flipping signs
Over the years, I picked up a number of tricks to optimize code. Today I’ll talk about one of them.
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Show HN: 2D Graphics on Modern GPU
Is the traditional 2D imaging model nearing the end of its usefulness, or does it have a shiny future in the “modern graphics” world? I spent a week on a research retreat in a cottage in the woods to answer this question, as it shapes the future of UI toolkits. Performant UI must use GPU effectively, and it’s…
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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To ORM or Not to ORM
I've been enjoying using Go's database/sql package for working with databases. Recently, some mentions of gorm piqued my curiosity about using ORMs in Go vs. using database/sql directly. Having had some mixed experiences with ORMs in the past, I decided to start with a practical experiment by writing the same simple…
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Smarter Training of Neural Networks
These days, nearly all the artificial intelligence-based products in our lives rely on “deep neural networks” that automatically learn to process labeled data.
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Open source collaborative text editors
For years now I've had this itch, trying to find the "perfect" collaborative text editor. But not just any collaborative text editor, oh no, my speciality is finding (well, at least looking for) open source real-time collaborative web-based rich text editors...
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.NET 5
Today, we’re announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family. There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more. […]
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
This is an announcement regarding the resolution of the syntax for the await operator in Rust. This is one of the last major unresolved questions blocking the stabilization of the async/await feature, a feature which will enable many more people to write non-blocking network services in Rust. This post contains…
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.
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Modeling Adversaries with TLA+
A common question I get about specs is how to model bad actors. Usually this is one of two contexts: The spec involves several interacting agents sharing a protocol, but some of the nodes are faulty or malicious: they will intentionally try to subvert the system. The spec involves an agent subject to outside forces…
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How C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library
We explain how C array sizes become part of the binary interface of a library and examine ways to avoid ABI compatibility issues.
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Understanding Bloom Filters with Pharo
From Moldable Development to Media for Thought
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I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
Lessons learned about moving fast and shipping products
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How to Understand Systems
Solving problems by identifying underlying systems
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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
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I do not use a debugger (2016)
I learned to program with BASIC back when I was twelve. I would write elaborate programs and run them. Invariably, they would surprise me by failing to do what I expect. I would struggle for a time, but I'd eventually give up and just accept that whatever "bugs" I had created were there to stay. … Continue reading I…
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Applying the Gestalt Principles to Code
It’s one of the most repeated phrases in software, but is also quite easy to forget - you spend more time reading code than you do writing it. According to the…
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Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
Incident summary Updates - Last updated 14:35 PST May 14, 2019. We expect this to be our final update. If you are running Firefox versions 61 - 65 ...
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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracl…
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What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)
I was asked by someone to put this old piece of writing of mine somewhere more permanent, so here it is. A few comments off the top: This isn’t new. I wrote it years ago. Yes, I’m a b…
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A World Run with Code
What the world will be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous. Transcript of a talk by Stephen Wolfram from a 2019 blockchain conference.
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eBPF Can't Count?
It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those?
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GCC 9.1 Released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Android App Reverse Engineering 101
Learn to reverse engineer Android applications!
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Writing Exploit-Resistant Code with OpenBSD
On April 27, 2019, I gave a talk on how to use OpenBSD to write better software at CarolinaCon 15 in Charlotte.