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Surprising Bash Variables
Continuing in the series of posts about lesser-known bash features , here I take you through seven variables that bash makes available that you may not have known about.
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Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher
Every time someone reports higher latency after migrating to Kubernetes, the root cause is an assumption that changed. This is one of those stories.
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Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro
Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [ NYSE:WIT ] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. Wipro has refused to respond to questions…
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Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume
Want more interviews? The fast and easy way to revamp your resume and get noticed is to use CV Compiler.
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New productivity software startups
There's a wave of companies trying to find new ways to make software for work, building bundles of workflows and networks that capture the spreadsheets, emails and phone calls of some industry or profession and turn them into structure, automation and time.
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MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections
It's not beyond possibility to set up MySQL to achieve 100,000 concurrent connections if you balance network config and use thread pools. By Vadim Tkachenko
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers
This article is the first installment of a two-post series on Building a machine reading comprehension system using the latest advances in deep learning for NLP.
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Performance metrics for web apps
Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
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Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
A typical website is made of numerous components coming from a wide variety of sources.
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CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR
CCPA impacts dev teams more than GDPR. Learn who must comply, what data is covered, and how to protect test data safely.
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Tech and Liberty
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday.
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The 16-Inch MacBook Pro
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it.
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Mathematica Version 12 Released
New functionality in Wolfram Language 12 and Mathematica covers: ComplexPlot3D, computation with uncertainty, polygon operations, polyhedra, Euclidean geometry, AxiomaticTheory, NBodySimulation, machine learning superfunctions, neural nets, computing with images, SpeechRecognize, AudioIdentify, natural language…
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Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-Ons Support
Back in June, Mozilla announced Firefox Preview, an early version of the new browser for Android that is built on top of Firefox's own mobile browser engine, GeckoView. We've gotten ...
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Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
How can mass-copying pages from web publishers without a license not be mass-copyright infringement? The weird copyright law exemption that enables AMP Caches.
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What design tools get wrong
Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the context that we currently design for. The remnants of fixed-dimensions are still visible in all and the tools are not helping…
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Raster CRT Typography According to DEC
A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220.
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
Ai competitions are fun, community building, talent scouting, brand promoting, and attention grabbing. But competitions are not intended to develop useful models.
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Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014)
With the release of Elasticsearch 1.1.0, there is a new metric aggregation available to users: the Percentile metric. Percentiles tell you the value at which a certain percentage of your data is incl...
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Shareable Jupyter Notebooks That Run on Free Cloud GPUs
Gradient Community Notebooks provide free GPUs with pre-configured environments for machine learning and deep learning projects.