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Trying to replicate the sounds your car is making to the mechanic you're talking to is equal parts frustrating and embarrassing.

ZMQ binding for the MQL language (both 32bit MT4 and 64bit MT5) - GitHub - dingmaotu/mql-zmq: ZMQ binding for the MQL language (both 32bit MT4 and 64bit MT5)

Most of the world is divided neatly into distinct nations with clearly defined borders. This map is about the locations that do not fit that model, territories that are claimed by more than one country / occupying force. The conflicts range from major wars whose impact is felt around world (e.g. Islamic State) to minor disagreements over remote, uninhabited rocks (e.g. Rockall Island).

With the introduction of containers and microservices, monitoring solutions have to handle more ephemeral services and server instances than ever before. And while the infrastructure landscape has changed, operations teams still need to monitor the same information on the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), hard disk drive (HDD), network utilization, and the…

Is there anything better than seeing a design team that's clearly obsessed with their product? Here the folks from Peak Design break down their Everyday Backpack, which might be the most well-thought-out, functional and good-looking bag design I've ever seen:

Everyday bags, travel bags, camera accessories: as leaders in carry, we design gear that helps you transport and manage your stuff. We're 100% crowdfunded, and we're on a mission to do right by our people and our planet.

Standard Notes is a private notes app that features unmatched simplicity, end-to-end encryption, powerful extensions, and open-source applications.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Structure has taken a new from. What we once knew as hierarchy, long-time Gapingvoid friend Jon Husband calls "wirearchy." And John says that the big

This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…

Raspberry Pi File Uploader: This is a simple way to upload files onto your raspberry pi through a browser. Start HERE if you have not installed raspbian OS onto the raspberry pi, then...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals what patients and their insurers are spending money on.

Micro-benchmarking code always looks simple: a few variables, a small for loop and two std::chrono calls. I think this simplicity is an illusion.Micro-benchmarking is either complicated or inaccura...

HiDef Software provides bold technical consulting on business and distributed systems development.

A few weeks ago Peter Hilton and I recorded a Software Engineering Radio podcast on naming and during and after the interview, we wondered: what does science say?! To start with, science agrees wit…

Steven Moffat says that great villains lose their impact if they show up again and again. He’s speaking specifically about Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes—and references Batman and the Joker—but the broader point stands.

A common problem in messaging middleware is that of efficiently matching message topics with interested subscribers. For example, assume we have a set of subscribers, numbered 1 to 3: Subscriber Ma…

Complex systems usually operate in failure mode. This is because a complex system typically consists of many discrete pieces, each of which can fail in isolation (or in concert). In a microservice …