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Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?
Rotisserie chickens are delicious, ready-to-eat, and don't cost any more than an uncooked chicken. Is that combination too good to be true?
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PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects
This PEP specifies how Python software packages should specify what build dependencies they have in order to execute their chosen build system. As part of this specification, a new configuration file is introduced for software packages to use to specify...
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Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
Google Duo is an app available for Android and iOS that takes the complexity out of 1-to-1 video calling.
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Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel
Getting new people into OSS projects is always a challenge. The Linux kernel is no different and has it’s own set of challenges. This is a follow up and expansion of some of what I talked about at Flock about contributing to the kernel.
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Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
Go 1.7—out today!—features an new SSA-based compiler backend. SSA is a method of describing low-level operations like loads and stores that roughly map to machine instructions, with the special difference that SSA acts as though it has infinite number...
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This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
With only three more years of savings, you can finally afford that two-bedroom condo
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Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?
False positives cause many promising detection technologies to be unworkable in practice. Attackers, we show, face this problem too. In deciding who to attack true positives are targets successfully attacked, while false positives are those that are attacked but yield nothing. This allows us to view the attacker’s…
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Go 1.7 is released
Go 1.7 adds faster x86 compiled code, context in the standard library, and more.
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YC Tech Stacks
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
Many of my students have been asking questions lately about how to do technical interviews, so I've decided to write about my interviewing experiences. I will start by giving a number of anecdotes because they're interesting to everyone, but the later parts of this post are mainly targeted at prospective students who…
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Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands
By using a combination of curl, grep, cut, sort, uniq and other common bash utilities it is possible to extract structured data from Wikipedia and compute insights without writing a full program.
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Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
AVFoundation, the low-level audio/video framework in iOS and macOS, does not accurately seek within VBR MP3s, making VBR impractical to use for long files such as podcasts. Jumping to a timestamp in an hour-long VBR podcast can result in an error of over a minute, without the listener even knowing because the…
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Tyre – Typed regular expressions
I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.
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JetBrains IDE Remote Code Execution and Local File Disclosure
TL;DR From at least 2013 until May 2016 JetBrains' IDEs were vulnerable to local file leakage, with the Windows (EDIT: and OS X) versions …
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Introducing Webpack Dashboard
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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NoSQL Databases: A Survey and Decision Guidance
(At the bottom of this page, you find a BibTeX reference to cite this article.)
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A Container Is a Function Call
There’s something missing from the Docker ecosystem: a type-checker.
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The Four Flaws of Haskell
Summary: Last year I made a list of four flaws with Haskell. Most have improved significantly over the last year. No language/compiler ecosy...
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VeraCrypt to be audited
OSTIF is proud to announce that we have come to an agreement to fully fund an audit of VeraCrypt. Using funds that were donated by DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN , we plan to hire QuarksLab to go over the code and search for vulnerabilities and backdoors.
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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All
In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.
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Python packaging is good now
setup.py is your friend. It’s real sorry about what happened last time.
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