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Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three: Beta: For testing feature branches on rea…
Yelp’s got style (and the guide to back it up) Molly F. Front-End Engineer Feb 11, 2014 We’re excited to publicly share Yelp’s styleguide — a living document that we’ve...
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
Canabalt's designer published the dimensions, speeds, jump rules and building sizes that made the game feel fair. Every number, explained.
We announce and explore the possibilities for bringing set-theoretic types into Elixir.
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
Find out for yourself how Postgres works internally. Learn what a postgres server does when it receives select statements and how it understands SQL.
Our primary mission at DeepMind is to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. Our reinforcement learning agents have achieved breakthroughs in Atari 2600 games and the game of Go. Such systems, however, can require a lot of data and a…
Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
F# is not just for math and big data, it's a general purpose language that will greatly reduce the amount of bugs in your code.
Historically, LLVM's major releases always added "0.1" to the version number, producing major versions like 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 (expected by March 2017). With our next release though, we're changing this.
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We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day.
The Year of the Brutal Desktop
Learn how AsciiDoc combines simplicity with advanced features. Create documentation that stands out, saves time, and ensures clarity.
Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple structured format like JSON, they impose fewer assumptions on each other.
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
This release includes massive enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude. See the full list of enhancements , or watch Joe Doliner ( @jdoliner ), an engineer at RethinkDB, talk about the 1.9 release in this two-minute video:
Ludum Dare coding secrets: continuous, thorough testing for better user experience. Learn how to level up your game development process!
Java 8 Update 20 String Deduplication with G1GC drastically reduces JVM memory by reusing duplicate char arrays. Optimize your Java applications today!
