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The Disneyfication of a University
BY DANE KENNEDY The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a negative culture. This was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
``Frequently'' means thou shouldst draw thy daily guidance from it, rather than hoping thy code will achieve lint's blessing by a sudden act of repentance at the last minute. De-linting a program which has never been linted before is often a cleaning of the stables such as thou wouldst not wish on thy worst enemies…
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Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source
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With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run Wayland compositors with zero-copy graphics, including GNOME 3.
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Researchers exploit HTTP/2, WPA3 protocols to stage ‘timeless timing’ attacks
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Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don't see how you replace such a thing.
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
MIT researchers have analyzed the causes of many cost overruns on new nuclear power plants in the U.S., which have soared in the past 50 years. The findings may help designers of new plants build in resilience to prevent such added costs.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
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Planner 2.6 – An open-source Todoist alternative for Linux
Planner keeps track of all your tasks, projects, and goals in one beautifully simple place.
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ORC – Nim's new memory managment
ORC - Algorithmic Advantages
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Google Acquires North
Google has acquired North, a pioneer in human computer interfaces and smart glasses.
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Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future
Welcome to this month’s community update! We’ve got exciting news to share, but before I proceed in doing so I’d like to thank Gamiee, JF, and PizzaLovingNerd for contributing to this blog entry and Clover for the final edits and proof-reading. As the PINE64 device-family grows larger and becomes more diverse, I find…
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and…
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Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure
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FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack
Trellix XDR, get the latest cybersecurity trends, best practices, security vulnerabilities, and more from industry leaders.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
WABT gains a new decompilation tool that can make it easier to read the contents of Wasm modules.
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The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
The EU is investigating Apple’s App Store practices for antitrust violations. Here’s why we must all resist abuses by tech giants.
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GNU Guix 1.2.0
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Leaving OCaml
Part of a 3 part series. Followups on F#, Rust I built the first demo of Dark in Python, in about two weeks. A few months later when I started productizing it, I rebuilt it in OCaml. Back in 2017, when I was considering the language and platform to use
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Hands-on WebAssembly
Learn the basics of WebAssembly through code examples and try different ways to compile C and Rust programs for the browser with the help of Docker image from Evil Martians.
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