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In 1949, George Orwell received a curious letter from his former high school French teacher. Orwell had just published his groundbreaking book Nineteen Eighty-Four, which received glowing reviews from just about every corner of the English-speaking world.

Improving HAProxy load balancing for better cache locality in Vimeo’s dynamic video packager

Description The NOMATIC Planner is designed to organize and improve your life. Main features include: planner, goal mapping, checklists, effectiveness activities, whiteboard paper, back pocket, integrated pen holder, dual elastics, and many more. Please note that the NOMATIC Planner also features a fill-in the date calendar so you get to...

Touchscreen Wall Mounted Family Sync & Home Control Panel: We have a calendar that is updated monthly with events but it is done manually. We also tend to forget things we have ran out of or other minor chores. In this age I thought it was much easier to have a sync'd calendar and notepad type system that c…

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Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD - the book and the course

AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance - GitHub - dhowe/AdNauseam: AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance

Multi-threaded MQTT broker written in Haskell. Contribute to lpeterse/haskell-hummingbird development by creating an account on GitHub.

With eyeballs glued to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Skype, developers have started turning once-simple chat apps into complex ecosystems

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That airline is biased in favor of pilots with many hours of experience.  Is it possible that a newbie pilot might be safer flying this jet than someone with twenty years of daily flying? Perh…

:computer: A curated list of awesome bitwise operations and tricks - GitHub - keon/awesome-bits: A curated list of awesome bitwise operations and tricks

Guest Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently dismissed media speculation that Apple had been hiring away some of his most important engineers, with his usual aplomb. “Important engineers?” Musk scoffed, in an interview with Handelsblatt. “They have hired people we’ve fired. We always jokingly call Apple the ‘Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you […]

This article attempts to take a look at 6DOF input and how it will revolutionize input for many mediums.

The main source of meaning in American life is a meritocratic competition that makes those who struggle feel inferior.

Efficient topic modelling in Python

“Our bodies break / And the blood just spills and spills / And here we sit debating math.” —Retribution Gospel Choir, Breaker Design got its seat at the table, which is good because we can shut up about it now. What used to be seen as the territory of bespectacled Scandinavians is now a matter of

Want to learn how to create a Node API backend with TypeScript and Express? Get up and running in a few minutes with this post.

I attended AWS re:Invent 2016 about three or four weeks […]

Testing IMG PowerVR graphics drivers through control flow transformations

As the encryption debate continues, proponents on both sides decry the negative international side effects of the policies they oppose. This essay analyzes the claims, examining the potential effects of the specific policies being pursued. It ultimately concludes that even the “no new regulation” approach has potentially significant spillover effects. These effects are bidirectional and dynamic: US policies and practices have a spillover effect internationally; but the policies and practices of foreign actors also influence the effectiveness of any decryption policy, and thus the scope and distribution of any such effect. This highlights the need for centralized, executive-level review of sought-after decryption orders, so as to better account for the potential effects. Jennifer Daskal is an associate professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law, currently on leave while working as an Open Society Institute Fellow on issues related to privacy and the cross-border flow of data. From 2009−2011, Daskal was counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice.

“I have this grand vision of a single marketplace of services that are platform-agnostic,” proclaimed Abby Kearns, the executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. “I also recognize that there are advantages of having an open source platform, in order to drive innovation and drive that collaborative approach. But I also need to recognize there…

On Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, an Iranian man who went by the online alias alibo tried to check his email—only to find he couldn’t connect to Gmail. Yet...

One of the questions we at Cloudsoft are often asked is “how do I use blueprints in CI/CD?” Well, we don’t know. We don’t know your environments or goals or constraints and those all matter. There are many, many ways blueprints are useful in a continuous delivery pipeline, because they give way for all the…

The V8 team has developed a new methodology to measure and understand real-world JavaScript performance.