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The executive director of Next Century Cities is leading a coalition to promote municipal broadband.

Why Quill text editor is the future of word processors.

Operating large-scale, globally distributed services requires accurate monitoring of the health and performance of our systems to identify and diagnose problems as they arise. Facebook uses a time series database (TSDB) to track and store system measurements such as product stats (e.g., how many messages are being sent per minute), service stats (e.g., the rate [...]Read More...

A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company.  We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools.

Why the Trump administration is taking aim at Europe

Will the FBI’s Rap Back service notify your boss that you got arrested protesting the inauguration?

Searching for the occurrence seconds of words/phrases or arbitrary regex patterns within audio files - GitHub - aalireza/SimpleAudioIndexer: Searching for the occurrence seconds of words/phrases or...

The West is struggling to build out safer reactors, but China shows no such delays.

💻 Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux) - GitHub - hackjutsu/Lepton: 💻 Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux)

When software developer Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman died, she and some fellow software engineers used his texts and emails to create an interactive Roman bot.

Some people are destined for mediocrity. Take this guy for example: A college kid, who, despite a semi-decent college showing as an American football quarterback, was drafted 199th by a professiona…

minimal container runtime in erlang. Contribute to emirozer/beamwhale development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's no more urgent reason to write. It keeps you from insisting that people read your mind, understand your gestures and generally guess what you want. If you can learn to share …

Internet connections mapped to human behaviour in massive study.

Right now we're seeing the extreme right clash with the extreme left, and people in the middle are being forced to choose. It's getting ugly. There's

A new online survey from YouGov details which countries Americans consider to be allies. Australia tops that list for Republicans.

The psychologist who wrote the criteria for narcissism wants everyone to stop trying to diagnose Donald Trump with mental illness.

In most interactions, you're capable of winning. If you push hard enough, kick someone in the shins, throw a tantrum, cheat a little bit, putting it all at stake, you might very well get your …

I did an introductory presentation on IoT yesterday at at the University of Northampton, Internet of Things event . Below if my presenta...

Video Digitization Device and Editing Software Package: Make Digital Copies of Your VHS & DVD Videos & Edit Them to Your Liking

A Java 8 library to extract main image from a URL or website link - GitHub - shekhargulati/image-resolver: A Java 8 library to extract main image from a URL or website link

torvalds has 6 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

This is the extended form of a comment that got some interest on Hackernews. After a grace period of one year, Parse is now offline. This…

Using the flame graph visualization to determine where file system or disk space is consumed, and answer where space has gone.

It’s always good practice to implement the networking part of a project early on, this way you can design the other components around it, thus avoiding some major refactoring in the later sta…

Google adopted S/MIME encryption for the enterprise version of Gmail, but it comes with a compromise: The encryption is no longer end-to-end, and Google can decrypt all S/MIME emails.