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Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?
If you’re a programmer considering a move to the Bay Area, you probably know at least two basic facts: 1) tech salaries are higher here than elsewhere, and 2) living here is really expensive. Both...
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Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
The talks of webpack 2 started back in January of 2015. Since then we have published multiple versions from 2.0 to 2.1-beta.28.For awhile, things were moving slowly, and then as of June, we had formed...
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Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport
PhotoCredit Getty Images Running seems to require a greater amount of high-level thinking than most of us might imagine. The sport seems to change how the brain works in surprising ways, according to a...
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Kickstarter open-sources their Android and iOS apps
Today the Kickstarter engineering team is open sourcing our Android and iOS apps, and we’re excited about a future of working in the open.Native Squad enjoying the post-launch winter sunshine.Why open...
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Starting a real business
Starting a business is hard. Some of the difficulty is intrinsic—making products and services then convincing customers to pay for them will always be a challenge. Some of the difficulty is...
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The Signal protocol for Node and browsers
Currently, Signal in the browser relies on the WebCrypto API. In principle, the WebCrypto API is fantastic - well-build cryptographic primitives, written in native code, executable from the JSVM. In...
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Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
By Bob Lord, CISOFollowing a recent investigation, we’ve identified data security issues concerning certain Yahoo user accounts. We’ve taken steps to secure those user accounts and we’re working...
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Unscii – A set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts
Unscii - a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphicsUnscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being...
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Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die
PhotoMedics from Colerain Township in Ohio tending to a patient. Which hospital a person is taken to could make a significant difference in the medical outcome, according to a new study.Credit Ty...
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A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks
MotivationI’m not a machine learning expert. I’m a software engineer by training and I’ve had little interaction with AI. I had always wanted to delve deeper into machine learning, but never really...
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NSA Watchdog Removed for Whistleblower Retaliation
December 15, 2016Top NSA Watchdog Who Insisted Snowden Should Have Come to Him Receives Termination Notice for Retaliating Against a WhistleblowerDr. George EllardUntil just a few months ago, George...
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The First Annual Underhanded Rust Contest
Deutsch,Español,简体中文The Rust Community Team is pleased to announce the first annual Underhanded Rust Contest, inspired by the Underhanded C and Underhanded Crypto contests. Our goal withRust is to make...
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490)
Most people’s to-do lists are, almost by definition, pretty dull, filled with those quotidian little tasks that tend to slip out of our minds. Pick up the laundry. Get that thing for the kid. Buy milk,...
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Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit from Yahoo Deal
Verizon Communications Inc. is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo! Inc., after the company reported a second major e-mail hack affecting as many...
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Material Components Preview
Material Components help developers implement the Material Design guidelines across Android, iOS, and the web. Developed by Google engineers and UX designers, these components support the reliable...
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German research institutions boycott Elsevier
Background information: The DEAL project, headed by HRK (German Rectors' Conference) President Prof Hippler, is negotiating a nationwide license agreement for the entire electronic Elsevier journal...
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GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
Though the name GitHub is practically unknown outside technology circles, coders around the world have embraced the software. The startup operates a sort of Google Docs for programmers, giving them a...
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ANTLR 4.6 is released
Looking for ANTLR v3? The latest version of ANTLR is 4.6, released December 15, 2016. As of 4.6, we have a Java, C#, JavaScript, Python2, Python3, C++, Swift, and Go targets (and alternate C# target)....
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BigQuery public datasets now include Stack Overflow Q&A
Posted by Felipe Hoffa, GCP Developer AdvocateExploring hidden trends and relationships in Stack Overflow data is a good lesson in doing SQL analytics with BigQuery.Great news: we’ve just added Stack...
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