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Concurrent JavaScript: It can work
With the recent addition of SharedArrayBuffer, concurrency is finding its way into the JavaScript language.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Deploying a global, private CDN
Ideas, research, and practical guidance for ecommerce teams building faster storefronts and more efficient growth programs.
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How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
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Restic Cryptography
tl;dr: this is not an audit and I take no responsibility for your backups, but I had a quick look at the crypto and I think I’m going to use restic for my personal backups.
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The life and death of a startup
At DjangoCon Europe 2017 , and again at DjangoCon US 2017 , I gave a talk entitled “Autopsy of a slow train wreck: The life and death of a Django startup”. After I gave those presentations, a number of people requested that I publish the content in blog form so they could share it with colleagues.
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Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
There are multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems bundled by Ruby.It is reported at the official blog of RubyGems.
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What We Get Wrong About Technology
Blade Runner (1982) is a magnificent film, but there’s something odd about it. The heroine, Rachael, seems to be a beautiful young woman. In reality, she’s a piece of technology — an organic robot …
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My Institutional Review Board Nightmare
September 2014 There’s a screening test for bipolar disorder. You ask patients a bunch of things like “Do you ever feel really happy, then really sad?”. If they say ‘yesR…
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Coreboot and Skylake, Part 2: A Beautiful Game
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Treating performance as a product: The technical story of Asana’s rewrite
Learn how the engineering team at Asana rewrote the Asana app to improve app performance and speed from an in-depth, technical perspective.
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Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017
In this update, we’ll review the Q2 2017 and lifetime hard drive failure rates for all our current drive models including enterprise and consumers drives.
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When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.
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ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale
Today, we’re releasing a preview of a new SDK called ARCore. It brings augmented reality capabilities to existing and future Android phones. Developers can start experim…
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Farewell, Solaris
MongoDB's blog includes technical tutorials, MongoDB best practices, customer stories, and industry news related to the leading non-relational database.
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The Marketing Behind MongoDB
Countless NoSQL databases competed to be the database of choice. MongoDB's marketing strategy helped it become the winner.
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An adventure in trying to optimize math.Atan2 with Go assembly
This is a recount of an adventure where I experimented with some Go assembly coding in trying to optimize the math.Atan2 function.
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FizzleFade
I enjoy reading a lot of source code and after 15 years in the field I feel like I have seen my fair share. Even with a full-time job, I still try to spare evenings here and there to read. I don't see myself ever stopping. It is always an opportunity to learn new things to follow somebody's mind process. Every once in…
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Uber's New CEO
Uber has a new CEO, and the reason he is a great choice explain why the Uber job is still an attractive one.
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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (2015)
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Sharding data models
At Citus we make it simple to shard PostgreSQL. So we’ve thought a lot about different data models for sharding. This post covers 5 different data models for sharding, from sharding by tenant (multi-tenant data models), sharding by geography, sharding by entity id, sharding a graph, and time-based partitioning.
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FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to MDMA for treatment of PTSD
The non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to MDMA for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MAPS and the FDA have also reached agreement under the Special…
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KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
Introducing KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL provides a simple and completely interactive SQL interface for processing data in Kafka.
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6 months of working remotely taught me a thing or ten
Working remotely is a mixed bag. There are a lot of positives... and some negatives. If you’re a remote employee (or considering a remote job), here are my top ten tips that I’ve gleaned in the last six months.
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