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The best-kept secret of Dutch biking: the Dutch hardly bike at all
Here is perhaps the most shocking chart in all of Dutch transportation:
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Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives…
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Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox
After the Whistler All-Hands this past summer, I started seriously looking at whether Firefox should switch to using Bazel for its build system.
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America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast
Red and blue America dramatically represent different segments of the economy. Here is what you need to know.
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Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
One teacher compares the life of a middle schooler in 2008 versus 2018. There is a startling difference. Learn what life looks like for middle schoolers today, and gain valuable tips on how to reclaim childhood for your kids in this digital age.
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C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing
To write a professional C++ application, you not only need a basic text editor and a compiler. You require some more tooling. In this blog post, you’ll see a broad list of tools that make C++ programming possible: compilers, IDEs, debuggers and other. Last Update: 14th October 2019. Note: This is a blog post based on…
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A World Run with Code
What the world will be like when computational intelligence and computational contracts are ubiquitous. Transcript of a talk by Stephen Wolfram from a 2019 blockchain conference.
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What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
Software engineer specializing in query engines and distributed systems
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A walk through the Magit interface
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
Announcing a cloud storage solution where you are in control of all your data with client-side encryption and no data or vendor lock-in.
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How to write fast code in Ruby on Rails
Part of Shopify’s success with Ruby on Rails is an emphasis on writing fast code. But, how do you really write fast code? Let’s talk about a few ways to start writing faster code in Active Record, Rails, and Ruby.
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How Fair Is My D20? (2015)
An automatic system for rolling a polyhedral die and taking photos of the rolls; extracting the image of just the die from those images; clustering the images of the die by which face is shown; and analyzing the results.
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F() vs. F(void) in C vs. C++
Prefer f(void) in C to potentially save a 2B instruction per function call when targeting x86_64 as a micro-optimization. -Wstrict-prototypes can help. Doesn’t matter for C++.
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Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid
Free Software is a great thing, because it allows users to check that apps are doing what they pretend to do. But almost nobody compiles apps themselves.
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How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel (2015)
You're reading the original article in English. You can as well read the translation in Russian .
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How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data
How to get started with mapping GIS data
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Event Modeling
Event Modeling is a way to design a blueprint for an Information System of any size or scale. It is done in a way that allows the clearest communication of the system's workings to the largest possible cross-section of roles in an organization. The system can be checked for completeness by following the single thread…
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Two Browsers Walked into a Scrollbar
Read this page on the Filament Group website
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the…
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Open-Sourcing Inform 7
This is a talk and slides from Narrascope 2019 , held at MIT, Boston, on 14-16 June 2019. It's a sequel to a talk given in London a year earlier , when I went into "literate programming" at greater depth, but when the design of Inter was more embryonic. I'd like to thank the Narrascope organisers for fitting me in to…
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Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
At Benchling, we’re building a platform to help scientists do research. Hundreds of thousands of scientists across academia and enterprise…
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