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Here’s a fun fact about mathematicians: they love chalkboards. Especially the old fashioned ones, with actual chalk and those dusty erasers. There are a…

The old Chinese saying, "May you live in interesting times," is supposed to be a curse, uttered perhaps with a wry smile and a glint in the eye. But it is

So in my previous post I explored a specific (wrong) assumption that programmers tend to make about the nature of code points and text. I was asked multiple times about other assumptions we tend to …

An open-source virtual assistant. Contribute to Zenohm/Friday development by creating an account on GitHub.

Last year Qualcomm announced the X16 LTE modem that was capable of up to 1Gbps, category 16 in DL and Cat 13 (150 Mbps) in UL. See my ...

Anand Sanwal, co-founder and CEO of CB Insights, talks customized babies, robotics companions, and lab-grown diamonds, among other innovations in these excerpts from our annual N+1 presentation.

The card I've carried in my notebook#YesWeCan pic.twitter.com/0XsDwdRWQw— DJ Patil (NARA) (@DJ44) January 11, 2017

Earlier this month, Mesosphere engineer Gastón Kleiman revealed the Apache Mesos project’s intention to implement a native health checking mechanism, for the upcoming release of version 1.2.0. This way, wrote Kleiman, scheduler frameworks that rely on Mesos such as Apache Aurora and Mesosphere’s own Marathon (now part of DC/OS) no longer have to “roll their…

Developers can leverage the detailed transaction tracing available from APM type tools as a fast feedback loop to understand what their code is doing

Chapter XI(f), "Packet Loss for an App-Level Developer. Part I. Router Failures, BGP Convergence Time, AQM, Traffic Shapers." from upcoming book "Development&Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games"

There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs. While it is not news that FPGAs have been deployed in many different environments, particularly on

Hey Alexa, manage my system!

If you are a C/C++ programmer or develop software using the Fortran and Modula-2 programming languages, youll be glad to know there exists an excelle...

Create HTML presentations in seconds —. Contribute to webslides/WebSlides development by creating an account on GitHub.

An algorithm to sample a complete session by hashing its key. - GitHub - lafikl/hksample: An algorithm to sample a complete session by hashing its key.

Last week The Guardian published a story about a “backdoor” in WhatsApp. I don’t think their findings are a backdoor, but the story did…

At QCon New York, Eric Brewer described how advancing from continuous delivery to fast and stable continuous evolution requires a discrete construction step to define an immutable model of the system. Brewer’s compute infrastructure design team uses Helm to construct and safely validate new deployment models, prior to attempting real deployment, although the concepts are technology agnostic.

Any kind of incentivized mesh scheme needs a secure routing protocol. Without this, any node can claim anything it wants about the quality of routes that it has to a destination. Depending on how the payments work, there are a variety of different ways that this kind of routing protocol cheating can

Coding, or programming, is a way of writing instructions for computers that bridges the gap between how humans like to express themselves and how computers actually work | The Economist explains

Guest Post: Enno Rey outlines the advantages and disadvantages of four server configuration approaches for IPv6.

With a few minutes and a few free tools, you can resurrect nearly any aging PC with a fresh, fast, Chrome-like interface.

A blog post by Russ White pointed me to an article describing how IPv6 services tend to be less protected than IPv4 services. No surprise there, people like Eric Vyncke and I were telling anyone who was willing to listen that operating two-protocol networks isn’t the same thing as operating a single-protocol one (see also RFC 1925 rule 4).

Results from the O’Reilly Cloud Platform Survey.

A look into the unspoken side of software architecture.