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The Other Half
On January 19th of this year, I set off to California to participate in a hastily-arranged appearance in a UCLA building to talk about saving climate data in the face of possible administrative swi…
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Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
Here at Microsoft we have teams of all shapes and sizes, and many of them are already using Git or are moving that way. For the most part, the Git client
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug
The most popular and powerful web development tool. Firebug has been a phenomenal success. Over its 12-year lifespan, the open source tool developed a near cult following among web developers. ...
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How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Pinboard Acquires Delicious
If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API.
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An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
A few weeks ago a user on my site, cardgames.io , sent me a message saying that Mark Hamill had just tweeted a photo of himself playing Yahtzee . I looked, and sure enough, there it was:
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The Limitations of Deep Learning
This post is adapted from Section 2 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
A huge THANK YOU to the entire HackerNews community, from the Ubuntu community! Holy smokes...wow...you are an amazing bunch! Your f...
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Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image
Deep convolutional networks have become a popular tool for image generation and restoration. Generally, their excellent performance is imputed to their ability to learn realistic image priors from a large number of example images. In this paper, we show that, on the contrary, the structure of a generator network is…
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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
You're not alone, jclancy. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn't escape without a bit of help. Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a common joke among developers.
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A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
When you're playing your favorite game on Dolphin with a powerful computer, things should run fairly well. The game is running full speed, there are no graphical glitches, and you can use your favorite controller if you want. Yet, every time you go to a new area, or load a new effect, there's a very slight but…
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How to make a friend fast
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
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If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Everyone knows a horror story about PayPal, I’ve had several painful experiences with them over the last decade, but now I’ll never have to…
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A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD
A map of the roads of ancient Rome, in the style of a transit diagram.
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Keyboard latency
If you look at “gaming" keyboards, a lot of them sell for $100 or more on the promise that they’re fast. Ad copy that you’ll see includes:
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Toward Go 2
How we will all work together toward Go 2.
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On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
We've all heard how expensive college is getting, along with plenty of criticism surrounding its value in a changing job market. Of course, there are many benefits beyond the monetary ones that should be considered when exploring college options, but for the purpose of this post I'm going to limit the scope and purely…
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HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece
I set up my own company in 2012. After decades of working for other people I felt the time was right. I had the experience and the contacts…
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem
How I temporarily cut my mom out of my social media life to reach a larger audience.