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Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001)
Chocolat (2000, Mirimax) wasn’t a bad movie.
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Chaos Communication Congress is moving to Leipzig
The 34th iteration of the annual Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) will again take place in December, but at a new location: the congress and convention center in Leipzig. Congress had to find a...
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Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub
Safety gives security teams real-time visibility and governance over every AI tool, package, MCP server, and IDE extension across their developer fleet.
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How to draw oscilloscope lines with WebGL
When I saw oscilloscope music demos, they amazed and inspired me. Observing a clever use of interaction between sound and an electron beam is a unique experience. Some awesome oscilloscope music videos: Youscope, Oscillofun and Khrậng. However, I could not find any beautiful oscilloscope emulators. Lines produced by…
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A Foray into Go Assembly Programming
This blog post started last August when I was integrating the Spectator PercentileTimer concept into the metrics library in Rend so we could get better cross-fleet latency percentiles.
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Streaming Combinators and Extracting Flat Parallelism
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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Dolphin Progress Report: September 2017
While an emulator's primary job is to emulate, there's usually a lot more that goes into a good emulator. For Dolphin, it may feel like a lot of work has gone toward luxury features and optimizations rather than improving accuracy and compatibility. For example, Ubershaders is a wonderful, game-changing feature, but…
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Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites
Prior to the release of the Mozilla Observatory a year ago, I ran a scan of the Alexa Top 1M websites. Despite being available for years, the usage rates of ...
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TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+
We learn how to encapsulate and compose TLA+ specifications, of the precise mathematical definition of abstraction, and compare TLA+'s notion of abstraction with those of other formalisms. Plus some various cool stuff.
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Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?
A web browser is a piece of software that loads remote files and displays them locally, allowing for user interaction. Quantum is the code name for an project we’ve undertaken ...
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Tech Workers' Values
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect...
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The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop
Beyond its status as a world leader in hackathon organization, BeMyApp has been supporting its customers' digital transformation for 10 years. We are committed to accelerating the development of their innovations by animating internal and external communities around the world, through in-person, virtual, or hybrid…
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To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth th…
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Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
Apple today announced that Apple Park, the company’s new 175-acre campus with the Steve Jobs Theater, will be ready for employees in April.
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Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?
Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per …
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The End of ProTube 2
I am very sad to announce that ProTube was removed from the App Store by Apple on September 1, 2017. This comes after multiple requests and threats by YouTube which ultimately led Apple to suddenly pulling the app from the App Store. ProTube and many other 3rd party YouTube apps on the App Store have been targeted by…
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The case against Kotlin
Ryan Cooke | Android Engineer, Core Experience
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Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth”
AWS is fell into the post-truth trap, providing false green in their status dashboard when all was not well.
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Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
By Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science, HoloLens It is not an exaggeration to say that deep learning has taken the world of computer vision, and many other recognition tasks, by storm. Many of the most difficult recognition problems have seen gains over the past few years that are astonishing. Opens in a new tab…
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Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia
Conventional wisdom says one reason so many hackers seem to hail from Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union is that these countries have traditionally placed a much greater emphasis than educational institutions in the West on teaching information technology in middle and high schools, and yet they lack a…
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