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Practical Data Science in Python
Find, classify and remediate PII across your files, email, databases and cloud. Accurate AI-powered PII discovery – on-premise or SaaS.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
Build practical, job-relevant skills with ready-made learning pathways and custom programs from Chegg Skills for employers, higher education, and government.
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PyPy 2.5.0 released
PyPy 2.5.0 - Pincushion Protea We’re pleased to announce PyPy 2.5, which contains significant performance enhancements and bug fixes. ...
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I have no idea what I'm doing
It says “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING”. I don’t remember writing it, but it was in my house on my desk in my handwriting, so I obviously did.
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Replacing Middle Management with APIs
There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services…
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What Color Is Your Function?
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me going in the morning quite like a good old fashioned programming language rant. It stirs the blood to see someone skewer one of those “blub” languages the plebians use, muddling through their day with it between furtive visits to StackOverflow.
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Destructuring and Recursion in ES6
Arrays are JavaScript’s “native” representation of lists. Lists are important because they represent ordered collections of things, and ordered collections are a fundamental abstraction for making sense of reality.
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Syntax across languages
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
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RethinkDB 1.16: cluster management API, realtime push
The 1.16 release is a precursor to the upcoming 2.0 release, and is the biggest RethinkDB release to date with over 300 enhancements . This release includes two exciting new features: a comprehensive API for large cluster management, and realtime push functionality that dramatically simplifies the development of…
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Computational Geometry in Python
This post is a simplified version of the accompanying notebook to chapter 6 of my upcoming book Mastering SciPy. Click anywhere on this box for more information.
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Swift Resistance
I feel like every time I sit down to actually start using Swift, I'm constantly battling with the language. My latest challenge: creating a backing buffer of pixel data that will be rendered t…
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Use Haskell for shell scripting
turtle 1.0 announcement post
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Replace CoffeeScript with ES6
Use ES6 on your next project.
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Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go
My colleague Peter Moon wrote the guest post below and asked me to get it out to the world ASAP! — Jeff; AWS currently offers SDKs for seven different programming languages – Java, C#, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP, and Objective C (iOS), and we closely follow the language trends among our customers and the general […]
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Schelling's Model of Segregation
Racial segregation has always been a pernicious social problem in the United States. Many factors have contributed to segregation including prejudice, zoning laws, housing discrimination, and loan discrimination. Although much effort has been extended to desegregate our schools, churches, and neighborhoods, the US…
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How patio11 builds Twilio apps
Founder of Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder talks Twilio. Includes monitoring, environment-based safeties, queue management and sample code.
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Maze Generation in Thirteen Bytes (2012)
Update 12/7/2012 @ 13:46: Peter Ferrie smashed my record by a single byte, so the record is now held by him at 12 bytes. Congrats, and I feel like a fool for missing it :-) I’ve tacked on h…
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Advancing the realtime web
Over the past few months the team at RethinkDB has been working on a project to make building modern, realtime apps dramatically easier. The upcoming features are the start of an exciting new database access model – instead of polling the database for changes, the developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push…