Mailgun Becomes an Independent Company
Today, we’re excited to announce that Mailgun has once again become an independent company! Despite this change in ownership, our commitment to building the best email automation service for developers...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.2
Today our team is happy to present our latest release with TypeScript 2.2!For those who haven’t yet heard of it, TypeScript is a simple extension to JavaScript to add optional types along with all the...
View ArticleThe Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
Over the next 12–24 months — in other words, between 2018 and 2019 — how software developers are hired is going to change radically.I spent 2004–2014 working at Red Hat, the world’s largest open source...
View ArticleRescale (YC W12) Is Hiring a Dev Ops Engineer
At Rescale, you will help the world's leading engineers and scientists develop the next generation of disruptive innovations. Our team members have the unique opportunity to learn and contribute to...
View ArticleThe implications of the end of net neutrality
Sergey DenisenkoCrunch Network ContributorSergey Denisenko serves as chief executive officer for the native performance network MGID, where he oversees the growth and strategic direction of the...
View ArticleThe Hidden Twist to Making a Möbius Strip
In the field of symplectic geometry, a central issue involves how to count the intersection points of two complicated geometric spaces. This counting question is at the heart of one of the most famous...
View ArticleSecuritybot: Open Sourcing Automated Security at Scale
Security incidents happen. And when they do, they need to be dealt with—quickly. That’s where detection comes into play. The faster incidents are detected, the faster they can be handed off to the...
View ArticleAnnouncing DatHTTPD
Configure the variables in this post$YOUR_DNS$YOUR_DAT$YOUR_EMAILAs of Beaker Browser 0.6.1, you can visit Dat sites using DNS shortnames:This is accomplished with DNS-over-HTTPS, and made simple with...
View ArticleDemangling C++ Symbols in Rust
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find it on crates.io and github.C++ symbols are mangled? Why?Yes.Linkers only support C identifiers for symbol names. They don’t have any...
View ArticleAPIs, robustness, and idempotency
Networks are unreliable. We’ve all experienced trouble connecting to Wi-Fi, or had a phone call drop on us abruptly.The networks connecting our servers are, on average, more reliable than...
View ArticleWriting an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition
22 Feb 2017If you’d asked me a only few months ago if there’ll ever be a printed version of Writing An Interpreter In Go I’d responded with a “Huh, uummm, well, I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe if I’ll find...
View ArticleAPI Design Guide
Current Version of the API Design Guide: 2017-02-21IntroductionThis is a general design guide for networked APIs. It has been used inside Google since 2014 and is the guide we follow when...
View ArticleWhat Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
What would hiking nearly 500 miles in 29 days do to my body? Photo: Kyle Boelte This summer, my wife and I hiked the Colorado Trail, a 486-mile, high-altitude trek from Denver to Durango. While...
View ArticleBrowsing your website does not mean I want your spam (2016)
I recently fell down a deep dark hole on the internet.It began by researching a part for my central air conditioning but ended up with me stumbling upon a terrible development in modern advertising:...
View ArticleTour of F#
The best way to learn about F# is to read and write F# code. This article will act as a tour through some of the key features of the F# language and give you some code snippets that you can execute on...
View ArticleBeating the World's Best at Super Smash Bros. With Deep Reinforcement Learning
(Submitted on 21 Feb 2017)Abstract: There has been a recent explosion in the capabilities of game-playing artificial intelligence. Many classes of RL tasks, from Atari games to motor control to board...
View ArticleInside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture
“It seemed like every manager was fighting their peers and attempting to undermine their direct supervisor so that they could have their direct supervisor’s job,” Ms. Fowler wrote. “No attempts were...
View ArticleTesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates
Just as Tesla Inc. is signaling a smooth road ahead for its most important vehicle, the electric-car maker led by Elon Musk is losing another major top executive.The Model 3 sedan, Tesla’s cheapest...
View ArticleSeven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
NASA/ESA/STScI/J. de Wit An artist's illustration shows two Earth-sized planets spinning across the face of an M dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1.Seven alien, Earth-sized worlds bask in the cool, red light...
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