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PEP 427 – The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0
This PEP describes a built-package format for Python called “wheel”.
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Questions I'm asking in technical interviews
Questions I'm asking in interviews
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How IPython Notebook and Github have changed the way I teach Python
I teach in a small high school in southeast Alaska, and each year I teach an Introduction to Programming class. I recently learned how to use IPython Notebook, and it has completely changed the way…
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A back-projection algorithm to extract 3D volume from shadows
If you'd rather read python than english you can go straight to the code on github: https://github.com/jminardi/volume-from-shadow
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Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox
Testing on multiple mobile devices is costly, time consuming and the default Android emulator is notoriously slow. What to do? Start using a fast one.
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Effective Technical Leadership
Most successful projects have a single engineer responsible for driving the project forward while ensuring that strong technical decisions…
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Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance
It’s been two months since President Barack Obama first said that he welcomes a debate about NSA surveillance, which he once again reiterated last week at his press conference. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to have a real debate about a subject when the administration constantly and intentionally...
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Competing with a Mac
Publicly, Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie belittled the iPhone and its shortcomings, including its short battery life, weaker security and initial lack of e-mail. […] Internally, he had a very diff…
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How upgrading to Google Apps for Business killed my company's email for 6 hours
Entrepreneurship, Investment, Asia, Data and Food
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Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start?
For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. There is a famous answer on Quora that exemplifies this. Lots of people like that story, even though it’s inaccurate and misguided. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that…
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Maven is broken by design
The other day, someone asked about the status of the GWT Mavenization, saying he loves Maven and would like to help. I replied that “I used to really like it” but wasn't “so sure nowadays.” It obviously was followed by “I know it could cause issues if not used in the proper way […] Do you mind telling me why you don't…
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The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware
Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.
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21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team
If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.
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There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work
Discover the latest software industry insights and trends with our blog. Keep up-to-date withBusiness Advice and our software experts and tips at lessacounting
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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed
On the day after Christmas, my city-mapping project Majuro.js appeared on the front page of Hacker News. It would be a few days before I found out, because I was out of internet, cell phone, or even radio contact on Arno Atoll, a razor-thin string of tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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LLVM 3.3 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.3. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Probability Theory — A Primer
It is a wonder that we have yet to officially write about probability theory on this blog. Probability theory underlies a huge portion of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistics, and a number of our future posts will rely on the ideas and terminology we lay out in this post. Our first formal theory…
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Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates .
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I'm Slowly Losing My Mind
I say a lot of things. I avoid lying at all costs, and instead prefer to simply leave out a lot of... details. Like why I started a game dev...