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Node v8.5.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Green Threads Explained
A short and self contained explanation that will guide you through an implementation of user threads.
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Using Tesseract OCR with Python
In this tutorial you will learn how to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to images using PyTesseract, Python, and OpenCV.
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Debian 8.7 released
[09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.10 released [09 Dec 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.3 released [07 Oct 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.2 released [12 Aug 2017] DebConf17 closes in Montreal and DebConf18 dates announced [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 9: 9.1 released [22 Jul 2017] Updated Debian 8: 8.9 released [18 Jun 2017] Debian…
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Planets in Google Maps
Now you can visit many planets and moons in Google Maps right from your computer.
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TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs
Posted by Moshe Looks, Marcello Herreshoff and DeLesley Hutchins, Software EngineersIn much of machine learning, data used for training and inferen...
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The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier
Over the past year or so, I’ve been loading up SyncTerm and logging in to various telnet-accessible BBSs here and there — nothing too consistent. But, thanks to a piece of kit released by Paul Rickards, over the past month … Continue reading →
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Things I learned creating my own Messenger chatbot
The modern messaging tools that chatbots run on offer much more ways to interact compared to what previous incarnations of chatbots had, such as those used on IRC or AIM. Much advise on building chatbots that’s out there quietly assumes that all chatbots are just text-in-text-out, which doesn’t match with the…
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Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years
America's GDP is shifting from small-town America to the cities, and at the same time the opioid overdose epidemic has hit rural states, like Kentucky and West Virginia, especially hard. As a result, from 1999 to 2015 suicides in rural America have increased over 40%, according to the CDC.
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Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change
Over the last couple of years I've been doing talks about running Oracle databases in the cloud. In both my talks and articles I refer to the Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment document. This morning I was reading a post on a mailing list and someone mentioned the document had been updated on…
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Ubuntu Systemd Vulnerability
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Go and Dogma
[ Cross-posting from last year’s Go contributors AMA on Reddit, because it’s still important to remember. ]
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Selling Bitcoins in Canada
In 2013, I bought a few Bitcoins from a dude in a coffee shop, paying with hundred-dollar bills. Later that year I sold enough to get my money back . Then I forgot about them, Bitcoin’s price gyrations occasionally registering in a corner of my mind. But earlier this month I decided to find out if the remainder could…
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React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign
The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too.
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Better than Free (2008)
[I’ve revised and condensed this short essay into an updated version, which you can read on my Substack here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we … Continue reading →
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Software compatibility and our own “User-Agent” problem
Sometimes you have to write code to do some ad-hoc things in order to make programs run in a variety of environments, but as time goes by, it could result in a tragicomical situation where ad-hoc features are built on other ad-hoc features. It is easy to identify that kind of problem, but in many cases, nobody can fix…
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Crypto for kids
When, in the spring of 2030, he almost incidentally invented the most terrible biological weapon known to humanity it took him about three seconds to realize that should his invention fall into the hands of one of the superpowers -- or into the hands of any common idiot, really -- it could well mean the end of the…
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware.
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Faktory, a new background job system
Yesterday I explained how a good background job framework is critical to scaling business applications. Today, meet Faktory. I’ve spent the last six months building Faktory, a new background job system which aims to bring the best practices developed over the last five years in Sidekiq to every programming language…
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ReactOS 0.4.5 Released
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Pushing Polygons on the Mega Drive
Write-up of the polygon renderer used for the Mega Drive demo “Overdrive 2”.
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Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1
The Network Monitor tool has been available in Firefox since the earliest days of Firefox Dev Tools. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about page load performance and ...