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Today’s topic is rounding in embedded systems, or more specifically, why you don’t need to worry about it in many cases.One of the issues faced in computer arithmetic is that exact arithmetic requires an ever-increasing bit length to...

The following articles covers new features in the 12.1 AWS Marketplace release (Cloud-init, Single-Nic and Auto Scale)

Want to be the next Dennis Ritchie or Brendan Eich? Look no further.

Message Framing for libuv. Contribute to litesync/libuv_message_framing development by creating an account on GitHub.

For the writer, a good bookstore in a faraway place is as basic a need as a decent hotel, a hot shower and enough underwear.

If bookstores are a must on your travel itinerary, Ann Patchett has a road map for you.

Geraldine Brooks, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Pamela Paul and others in the literary world reveal their favorite bookstores.

From Mexico City to Hangzhou, bookstores that are destinations in and of themselves.

Ethereum Learns To Use A Fork (And Other Signs Baby Is Growing Up)

Cloud concern ITIL-ises the big end of town, so created a service to get them moving

Culture isn’t a set of laws. It can’t be imposed — culture is shared. Culture is adaptable. It embraces innovation. It grows, shifts, and accepts. Culture

Listening to your customers isn’t figuring out what they want -- it’s figuring out their needs. We don’t always know what’s missing. Sometimes thirst

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Since joining the Google Cloud team in August, we’ve been hard at work bringing Orbitera to Google Cloud Platform customers and partners. Today, we’re excited to announce that Orbitera supports Test Drives that run on GCP and we’ve completed a successful Test Drive beta that includes software providers like Barracuda, DivvyCloud, Looker, and Vormetric. Thanks to the support of our partners and great team we continue to provide immediate value to customers looking to experience third-party solutions on GCP.Orbitera Test Drives are fully functioning and interactive software demonstrations offered on the cloud. This is a popular way for businesses to try software before buying it — no software license, credit card or even cloud account required.At Orbitera we make it easier for businesses to try, buy, deploy and manage complex software in the cloud. One-click Test Drives empower businesses to try software before buying it, and comprehensive consumption billing management gives corporate IT unprecedented visibility and control.Here’s what some leading software providers had to say about their Orbitera Test Drives on GCP:

A misleading email from a campaign staffer was just one mistake that helped Russian hackers steal data from Democrats.

It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture.

[Image: River valley outside Kamdesh, Afghanistan, where the “Battle of Kamdesh” occurred, an assault that loosely serves as the basis for part of John Renehan’s novel, The Valley]. While we’re on …

In its first year, the Hyperledger Project has grown to 100 participating members, as more companies sign on to explore the commercial uses of the blockchain distributed data store technology. For one, IntellectEU, a Brussels-based startup has been involved with various “flavors” of the technology for about two years, according to Hanna Zubko, co-founder and vice…

When discussing container monitoring, we need to talk about the word "monitoring." There are a wide array of practices considered to be monitoring between users, developers and sysadmins in different industries. Monitoring — in an operational, container and cloud-based context — has four main use cases: Knowing when something is wrong. Having the information to…

Launched by the creators of the Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform, Confluent not only maintains Kafka, but is on a mission to teach the world what a data-driven application ecosystem can do for business. On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps was interviewed by TNS associate podcast producer Kiran Oliver to discuss how…

Taking advantage of Kubernetes' inherent ability to manage containerized applications, CoreOS has updated its commercial Kubernetes distribution, called Tectonic, with the ability to update itself with no downtime. "We are able to use the exact same APIs and functionality that we have to monitor our applications to monitor Kubernetes," said Brandon Philips, CoreOS chief technology…

Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community Survey to identify “megaregions” in the United States: The emergence in the United States of …

I’ve traveled to a lot of cities. I’ve also lived for more than a few months in several of them. It would seem obvious that the places I know best be the ones that I spent the most time in. But strangely, this often isn’t the case. I did far more sightseeing and tourist activities […]

It might happen to you. Many markets have a base (people seeking a solution), a middle (people seeking some originality, something new, something a little better) and a top (educated and passi…

Any of us can be that irrational colleague who makes for an interesting day at work. All it takes is low confidence and high anxiety—and that comes with the territory. Brandon Gregory shows us how …

Back in 2003, DevCentral was one of the early/first corporate social media sites dedicated to serving, sharing, supporting and engaging our user community. Some 14 years later, we have MVPs, Featured Members and You all contributing to a lively,...