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On Mining
<i><em>Decentralization, n.</em> The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet...
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Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
SparkFun is forced to incinerate 2,000 multimeters because they are yellow.
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Don't use assembly unless you're an expert
…unless you're an expert at assembly, that is. The title of this post was obviously meant to be an attention-grabber, but it is much truer t...
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Board Members
Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good in...
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Why CCP is still using Python 2
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Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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To Protect Legitimate Interests, Seattle Should Cap All Forms of Innovation
In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers on our streets — to protect the legitimate interests of taxi companies and the revenue they create for our city.
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Racket 6.0: New package system, new doc CSS, JIT support for ARM
_posted by Ryan Culpepper_ Racket version 6.0 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket 6.0 has a new package system, including a catalog of hundreds of already-available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview ...
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Lab Notebook: Single Pixel Camera
Please forgive me for the lack of new content over the last five or so months. After my most recent post about neural networks and quadcopte...
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Light Table 0.6.6
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:
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Low-level is easy
My previous entry has the amazingly interesting title "Blogging is hard". Gee, what a wuss, says the occasional passer-by. Gotta fix my image, fast. Think, think, think! OK, here's what I'm going to tell you: low-level programming is easy. Compared to higher-level programming, that is. I'm serious.
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JetBrains C++ IDE: Status update and Video report
Update: Cross-platform C/C++ IDE goes public as CLion!We know many of you are waiting for a cross-platform C++ IDE we announced some time ago, as we've received quite a few applications for a priv
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The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
How much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check with a conditional branch that branches based on the overflow flag that add and sub set. Code that looks like
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Why curl defaults to stdout
(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it'll send the output to stdout by default. You can of course easily change this behavior with options or just using your shell's redirect feature, but without any option it'll spew it out to … Continue…
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Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company's flagship platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise…
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My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman”
If you haven’t read about it yet, “Eugene Goostman” is a chatbot that’s being heavily promoted by the University of Reading’s Kevin Warwick, for fooling 33% of judges …
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The URL shortener situation is out of control
I saw a URL today on Twitter to an article on Slate.com. It was a custom short ...
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An even slimmer pdf.js
TL;DR: Firefox’s built-in PDF viewer is on track to benefit from additional large reductions in memory consumption when Firefox 33 is released in mid-October.
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