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HandBrake 1.0.0 Released
Saturday, Dec 24, 2016"How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time." - Fred BrooksAfter more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake...
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Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
At one time or another, we all need to pass arbitrary command line arguments to some program. These arguments could be filenames, debugging flags, hostnames, or any other kind of information: the...
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Bach's Holy Dread
Bach, who obsessively copied out other composers’ scores, became an absolute master of his art by never ceasing to be a student of it.CreditIllustration by Matt Dorfman“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent...
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Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app Signal as it continues cyber crackdown
After a week of blocking the secure messaging app Signal in Egypt the service is back online thanks to new features added by its parent company Open Whisper Systems.Last week Egyptian users raised the...
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Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline
README.md A progressive Hacker News client built with AngularView AppFast: Uses a Service Worker App Shell + dynamic content model to achieve faster load times with and without a networkResponsive:...
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Mathematical Components for the Coq system
About Mathematical Components is the name of a library of formalized mathematics for the Coq system. It covers a variety of topics, from the theory of basic data structures (e.g., numbers, lists,...
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Notes on the Xircom PE3 parallel port Ethernet adapter
Xircom Pocket Ethernet 3 (PE3) Description The Xircom PE3 series adapters are Ethernet adapters from the early 1990s designed for notebook computers that needed Ethernet but did not have any internal...
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Rust vs C Pitfalls
It’s much harder to shot yourself in the foot with Rust :)Table of ContentsRust is really growing on me. The more I use it, the more I want to use it!So I’ve decided to demonstrate its awesomeness to...
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Understanding Clojure's PersistentVector implementation
Update: See also the description of PersistentHashMap. One of the unique features of Clojure is that the core data structures are persistent (immutable with efficient structural sharing). This includes...
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Orbital Determination for Proxima Centauri
Let’s talk this morning about the relationship of Proxima Centauri to nearby Centauri A and B, because it’s an important issue in our investigations of Proxima b, not to mention the evolution of the...
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
Maslow's hierarchy of SRE needsIn the course of talking to other tech companies about what they consider the scope of their SRE/DevOps roles, I've realized that the scope of SRE organizations differs...
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WebRTC: the future of web games
Tue Dec 27 2016At some point in JumpSuit‘s development I realized it was impossible to create the game we envisioned: WebSockets are just too slow, because they sit on top of TCP.While it is possible...
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This Year in Robigalia
Today marks the first anniversary since Robigaliamade its public debut. This was much to my dismay at the time. It’s hard to express how much anxiety having something posted to a large forum like HN...
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Haskus, a Haskell Framework for Systems Programming
README.mdHaskus system is a framework written in Haskell that can be used for system programming. The long-term aim is to provide a full Haskell user-space environment on top of the Linux...
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Socratica: What Is Abstract Algebra? [video]
Offentliggjort den 7. jul. 2016Abstract Algebra is very different than the algebra most people study in high school. This math subject focuses on abstract structures with names like groups, rings,...
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About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages
Like many Americans, I’ve started ordering an absurd number of items online in the last several years: clothes, toilet paper, and food. As my apartment filled with things that I bought online, it also...
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Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide
COVER STORY SIDEBARLibrary-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwideby Bill SteelePublishing in a scientific journal can be a slow process, so for decades scientists circulated...
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How one person discovered the majority of the universe – The work of Vera Rubin
“Fame is fleeting, my numbers mean more to me than my name. If astronomers are still using my data years from now, that’s my greatest compliment.”A quote of Vera Rubin‘s, and rather a knowing one. I...
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