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Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (2018)
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Hillel Wayne
Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper
I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules:
There’s a specific thing you can…
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Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions
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PSPDFKit
Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions | PSPDFKit
C++ exceptions have their place, but using an alternative is recommended for general program flow control.
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Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow database written in Rust
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GitHub
GitHub - mit-pdos/noria: Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow
Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow - mit-pdos/noria
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Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation
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GitLab
GoNotes.adoc · master · Eric S. Raymond / reposurgeon
A tool for editing version-control repositories and translating among different systems. Supports git, bzr, Subversion, darcs, and fossil directly, also hg, CVS, and RCS through plugins.
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Appeals to Consequences
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Jefftk
Appeals to Consequences
Jessica Taylor recently wrote a post objecting to what she describes as appeals to consequences. In general an appeal to consequences is saying that "X would have bad consequences" means that "X is false", but Jessica is using it in a broader way, to include…
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Dissecting the Windows Defender Driver
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Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
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KQED
Apple Engineer Killed in Tesla Crash Had Previously Complained About Autopilot
Walter Huang, who died in 2018 after his Tesla Model X slammed into a concrete barrier, had previously complained about the SUV malfunctioning on the same stretch of Silicon Valley freeway, according to NTSB documents.
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Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died
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NY Times
Bruce McEwen, 81, Is Dead; Found Stress Can Alter the Brain (Published 2020)
A neuroscientist, he showed how an unrelenting barrage of stress hormones can break down the body, leading to disease, depression, obesity and more.
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Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
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Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering
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Blogspot
A day^W^W Several months in the life of Project Zero - Part 1: The Chrome bug of suffering
Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Project Zero Introduction It was a normal week in the Project Zero office when we got an inte...
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The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics (2018)
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Medium
The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics
Many people, beleaguered college students especially, can find it challenging to appreciate mathematics because of the way it’s presented…
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Coronavirus Mortality Rate
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www.worldometers.info
Coronavirus Death Rate (COVID-19) - Worldometer
Case Fatality Rate (CFR), Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), and Crude Mortality Rate (CMR) latest estimates for the COVID-19 disease from the SARS-CoV-2 virus originating from Wuhan, China
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
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NDepend Blog
Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day - NDepend Blog
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend…
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OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android
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f-droid.org
OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Push messages are an essential part of connected mobile devices. They arealso one of the critical missing pieces in the open source Androidecosystem. Until n...
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Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
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Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs
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The Eclectic Light Company
Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
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Rotary Cellphone
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Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 – Garbage Collection
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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web
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No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia
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Vice
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.
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SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM
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TechCrunch
Music streaming pioneer SoundCloud raises $75M from Pandora owner SiriusXM
SoundCloud, the music streaming company that has been described as the “YouTube of audio” because of its profusion of user-generated content, has some big, strategic investment news today. The company has raised $75 million in funding from satellite radio…
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