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Photography Composition
The most comprehensive free Photography Composition tutorial on the internet. "Rules" explained, tons of examples, charts and food thought. Time to step up!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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LibreOffice 6.1 released
Berlin, August 8, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.1, the second major release of the LibreOffice 6 family presented in January 2018, with a significant number of new and improved features: Colibre, a new icon theme for Windows based on Microsoft’s icon design guidelines, which makes the office…
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Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language
This is hard to write, or rather, it’s a hard decision to make. After investing many years on Leaf — a programming language, a major life project — I need to take a break from it. It’s no longer fulfilling my goals, and it’s not as fun as it once was. It’s interfering with my […]
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Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
When using the Java programming language, one of the most common pitfalls is trying to access a member of a null reference, causing a NullPointerException to be thrown. Kotlin offers protection against this by baking nullable and non-nullable types into the type system. This helps eliminate NullPointerExceptions from…
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Nim partners with Status.im
We're incredibly excited to announce the new partnership between Status and Nim.
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Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
Two weeks ago we announced Startup School 2018 [https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/]. Our free, online course will kick off in just three weeks, on August 28th. We also let founders know that 100 of the companies that complete the course will receive $10,000 in equity-free funding from YC…
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V8 release v6.9
V8 v6.9 features reduced memory usage through embedded built-ins, faster WebAssembly startup through Liftoff, better DataView and WeakMap performance, and much more!
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Bringing Vulkan everywhere
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Dart 2.0 is now available
Notable changes and additions to the Dart programming language.
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
This issue was publicly disclosed on the Homebrew blog at https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/
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The next ten years of Instapaper
This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we’ve been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.
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Unix Syscalls
On UNIX-like operating systems, userland processes invoke kernel procedures using the "syscall" feature. Each syscall is identified by a "syscall number" and has a short list of parameters, which both can vary between operating systems, hardware platforms, and configuration options.
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Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
Signals the rebirth of Dart as a mainstream programming language for mobile and web development
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One-Process Programming Notes
This content covers my recent exploration of writing internet services, iOS apps, and macOS programs as an indie developer.
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Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Introducing Android 9 Pie
After more than a year of development and months of testing by early adopters, we're ready to launch Android 9 Pie, the latest release of Android, to the world. Android 9 harnesses the power of machine learning to make your phone smarter, simpler, and tailored to you. Read all about the new consumer features here. For…
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
In early 2016 I eventually decided it was my turn to take part in this project. I decided my job was going to be presenting the potential and the beauty inside these sketches. I selected those that I found most interesting and genuine and diverse, then rendered them as if they were real. I became the executor of these…
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OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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