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Python 3.7 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality
Mozilla took the next step today in the fight to defend the web and consumers from the FCC’s attack on an open internet. Together with other petitioners,
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Go hits the concurrency nail on the head
More than thirteen years have passed since Herb Sutter declared that the free lunch is over and concurrency is upon us , and yet it's hard to claim that most mainstream languages have made a strong shift towards concurrent modes of programming. We have to admit that concurrency is just hard , and the struggles of some…
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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
Imagining a childhood encounter with BASIC on the Commodore 64.
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Amazon Go and the Future
Amazon Go exemplifies how Amazon is building its monopoly in three ways: horizontally, vertically, and financially. Plus, why automation is worth being optimistic about.
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Amazon Health
Amazon Health doesn’t seem like much now, but there are hints it could be the ultimate application of Aggregation Theory.
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The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
We're sharing an update on Messages, Allo, Duo, and Hangouts
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How Facebook handles account deletions
Explore Pageflows blog for insightful articles on user experience and interface design. Dive into case studies, tips, and trends shaping the digital product design world.
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How to Be a Systems Thinker
At the moment, I’m asking myself how people think about complex wholes like the ecology of the planet, or the climate, or large populations of human beings that have evolved for many years in separate locations and are now re-integrating. To think about these things, I find that you need something like systems theory…
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USB Reverse Engineering: Down the Rabbit Hole
Thanks for the featured writeup Hackaday! Make sure to check out the comments over there as well. Looks like Hackernoon picked it up as well, make sure to check in with the comments there too. It would be great if you could also head over to Hacker News, give an upvote, and join in the comments there. Let's get this…
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100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls
A few thoughts on Rust after a few months of regular use.
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Gluten Free Antarctica
Far below the Antarctic circle, I watch a woman cry real tears because she can’t get gluten-free toast.
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Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine
Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid, in the Wayback Machine and her claims that some of these posts were “manipulated” by an “unknown, external party”. This past December, Reid's lawyers contacted us, asking to have archives of the blog…
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Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server
Kubernetes and related technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Istio, provide the non-functional requirements that used to be part of an application server and the additional capabilities
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Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
One way or the other, there is more to come on this story, and either Bloomberg’s or Apple’s and Amazon’s credibility is going to take a significant hit.
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Rules of optimization
Rules of optimization: 1) Design for performance from day 1 2) Profile often 3) Be vigilant on performance regressions 4) Understand the data 5) Understand the HW 6) Help the compiler 7) Verify your assumptions Performance is everyone's responsibility https://t.co/CwwJffnHGz
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Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads
Many seasoned engineers working in JVM based languages have seen errors like this: [error] (run-main-0) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) [error] at…
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OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Face recognition in images and video with Python
Learn how to perform face recognition using OpenCV, Python, and dlib by applying deep learning for highly accurate facial recognition.
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Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login
The Security Key by Yubico with FIDO2 enables passwordless login for Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
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My favorite apps on F-Droid
I often recommend F-Droid to my Android-using friends. F-Droid is an alternative app store which contains only Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It's great because the apps are almost all not evil. Did you know that a flashlight app doesn't need access to your contacts, location, and pictures? Did you know that…
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
To date, we've shaved the Bionic (18.04 LTS) minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and...
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StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix
Sixteen years ago, we started StumbleUpon to help people discover new webpages. The idea was simple: click a button to find a cool webpage…
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Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
A new material developed at MIT can mimic plants by taking carbon dioxide from the air and turning it into a useful solid material, potentially helping in the battle against global climate change.