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LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks
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Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB
We've been using RethinkDB in production for almost a year. RethinkDB is an open-source database designed to make it dramatically easier to build and scale real-time apps. Last week, the 2.0 release of RethinkDB landed and it was given a shiny "Production Ready" badge. After five years of development, RethinkDB is…
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The Cost and Complexity of Cgo
Cgo is an important part of Go: It's your window to calling anything that anything that has C bindings. But while cgo works for us, it hasn’t come for free.
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Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (2013)
Watch Rob Pike's talk, _Concurrency is not parallelism._
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Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code
We are improving and enriching the connections between the Java virtual machine and well-defined but “foreign” (non-Java) APIs, including many interfaces commonly used by C programmers.
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60fps on the mobile web
Flipboard launched during the dawn of the smartphone and tablet as a mobile-first experience, allowing us to rethink content layout principles from the web for a more elegant user experience on a variety of touchscreen form factors.
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How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu
When dealing with an extensive infrastructure and many team members, managing SSH keys for authentication can become unwieldy. However, SSH can utilize cert…
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Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
<p>Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits,...
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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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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…