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Learning new language or framework can sometimes be a struggle. Traditional approach is to read documentation which explains the concepts, and provides simple examples. Sometimes that might be enough, but what those documentations are often lacking are some advanced examples and usages in real projects.
Innovation never takes a break, and neither do I. From the steaming hot beaches of Cabo San Lucas I would like to tell you about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon EC2, now open for limited beta testing, with more beta slots to open soon. Amazon EC2 gives you access to a virtual computing […]
This is an essay about what it means to teach a kid to program, using Seymor Paperts groundbreaking book Mindstorms as a reference.
A guide to a full-featured modern desktop FreeBSD installation
Uber’s disastrous failure in Japan was not caused by local competition, but by a uniquely American strategy that simply could not work in Japan. You see, Uber represents a new kind of startup. The very thing that makes them so successful in America dooms them to failure in Japan.
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Welcome to the Developer Software Tools forum! Your collaborative hub to connect with fellow engineers, optimize code with Intel oneAPI and OpenVINO, share debugging breakthroughs, and extract maximum software performance.
This is in complete contrast to companies. The Google boys in the back garage so to speak with ideas of the search engine, were no doubt promoting all kinds of crazy ideas and maybe having even crazy people around them.
Starting with Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, Safari comes bundled with a WebDriver implementation that's maintained by the Web Developer Experience team at Apple.
A simple Makefile for C or C++ that automatically finds sources, determines include flags, and sets up header dependencies.
Many programmers use malloc() and free() and pay no more mind to "allocating memory", but I often find 2-20× speed improvements by rethinking memory usage, so it is something I usually want to examine when joining a distressed project.
The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the Internet. The agency is hoarding information about security vulnerabilities in the products you use, because it wants to use it to hack others’ computers. Those vulnerabilities aren’t being reported, and…
My experience contributing a medium-sized feature (os.scandir) to the Python 3.5 standard library.
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
The Sad State of Docker
This is the third post in the article series about Unix and Linux utilities that you should know about. In this post I will take you through the useful lsof tool. If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I'd call lsof the Swiss Army Knife of Unix debugging. Lsof follows Unix philosophy...
My blog about making and modding, 3D printing, electronics and other experiments.
Earlier this summer, the team atInversoft published a comprehensive andsophisticatedguide to user data security. Theguide spans from hardening servers from p...
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Ahmed Mansoor was targeted by NSO Group, an Israel-based “cyber war” company that sells Pegasus, a government-exclusive “lawful intercept” spyware product.
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Of all the objections I get from people about why they can’t ride a bike to get around, perhaps the most frustrating is the claim that bicycling is too dangerous. According to this line of re…
Use attrs. Use it. Use it for everything.
Between Lies and Bad Analysis
How to crawl the web with Scrapy without harming websites. Here are a few tips for netizens who want to build polite and considerate web crawlers.
