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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
Windows 3.1 allowed you to change all system colors to your liking. Linux been fully themeable since the 90s. OSX came along with a draconian “all blue aqua, and maybe a hint of gray”.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,862 posts.
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Don't fire your illustrator
Understanding (and Art Directing) AI image generators
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Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Remote and offshore software outsourcing was a perfect business concept ten years ago. Not anymore. Here is why.
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Why are we so bad at software engineering?
From XKCD, released under the Creative Commons 2.5 License An app contributed to chaos at last week's 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus. Hours after the caucus opened, it became obvious that something had gone wrong. No results had been reported yet. Reports surfaced that described technical problems and inconsistencies…
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Zero Trust SIM
We’re announcing the first Zero Trust SIM: the next major part of Cloudflare One, combining both software and hardware layers to rethink mobile device security for organizations
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Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail and Yahoo announce transformative updates to come in 2024. The updates impact senders but implementing the changes is easier than you think. Are you ready?
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
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How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one
Today, pretty much everyone has a CPU, a DSP and a GPU, buried somewhere in their PC, phone, car, etc. Most don't know or care that they bought any of these, but they did.
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Experts from a world that no longer exists
The biggest risk to an evolving system is that you become bogged down by experts from a world that no…
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Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems
Do intelligent people think faster? Researchers at the BIH and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, together with a colleague from Barcelona, made the surprising finding that participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple tasks, while they took longer to solve difficult problems…
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Tor Browser 12.0
Tor Browser 12.0 is now available. This new release updates Tor Browser to Firefox Extended Support Release 102.
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Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac and 145.0.7632.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...
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How I build software quickly
Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
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An update on Sunday’s service disruption
Yesterday, a disruption in Google’s network in parts of the United States caused slow performance and elevated error rates on several Google services, including Google Cloud Platform, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive and others. Because the disruption reduced regional network capacity, the worldwide user impact varied…
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The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with …
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Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
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Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration.
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GDPR – A Practical Guide for Developers (2017)
You’ve probably heard about GDPR. The new European data protection regulation that applies practically to everyone. Especially if you are working in a big company, it’s most likely that there’sContinue reading
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The self-hating web developer
I frequent /r/learnprogramming to help answer both technical and career oriented questions about programming. It's an extremely gratifying use of time.
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier
This past month, I have been enthralled by the Rust programming language given its unique edge for writing memory-safe, modern programs. Over the years, several languages have emerged as the most preferred by engineers to write resilient, backend software. The tides have shifted from Java/C++ into Go and Rust, which…
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Write a Shell in C (2015)
A tutorial on how to write a Unix shell in C.
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Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading
Originally published at https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/finance-python-trading
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Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
On one side, LLMs show unseen capabilities in reasoning, but on the other - reasoning in LLMs is not ideal.