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When programming, we often need to write 'generic' functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple function that sums up numbers. Go lacked this notion until recently, but it was recently added (as of version 1.18). So I took it out for a spin. In … Continue reading…
"This time it's personal."
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
Recently I got a feedback from a user, who has suffered from Notepad++ for several years: Feeling sorry and guilty, I replied him with all my compassion: My bad conscience has been relieved for Tom. But then I think of other Notepad++ users in pain.
But none of them are music books
We’re outrageously pleased to launch Chatterbox, an end-to-end encrypted embedded chat built on Matrix!
We got SOC2 certified so now you have to pay us more.
It's been a very hectic two months. Dolphin's development builds officially dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 in 5.0-16393 when the Windows buildbots were updated to use Qt6. If you read the last Progress Report, you'd know that Windows 7 was already on shaky terms due…
Today we’re introducing Meta accounts: a new way for people to log into their VR headsets that doesn’t require a Facebook account. When we announced that we would start requiring people to log into Meta Quest using a Facebook account, we received a lot of feedback from the Quest community. We took that feedback into…
Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScript
Problems at Roblox (RBLX)
An update on what we're doing to protect people from scraping data on Facebook and Instagram.
Explaining Ethereum's consensus mechanism after The Merge
All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px ? Where does that come from?
1990: gradient descent learns subgoals. 1991: multiple time scales and levels of abstraction. 1997: world models learn predictable abstract representations...
I figured I'd kick off my new blog with the most click baity thing I could think of. I suspect any developer reading this is aware of the DRY principle becau...
After almost 9 years since the beginning of the last wxWidgets stable release series, the first release in the new stable 3.2 series is finally available on GitHub . You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual…
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Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
Posted by Yundi Qian, Software Engineer, Google Research and Mircea Trofin, Software Engineer, Google Core The question of how to compile faster an...
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning othe…
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We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org…
Where do you stand in order to minimize the expected distance to walk to catch the first elevator that arrives? Maybe not where you think.
