27 August 2019

15 links · Tuesday

Campbell Award Renamed

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer has been renamed The Astounding Award for Best New Writer. The award, which is sponsored by Dell Magazines and administered by the World Science Ficti…

Imperva Security Update | Imperva

Hi everyone, Please find below a detailed update on the security incident from Kunal Anand, our Chief Technology Officer.  From the moment we discovered this incident, we established and have held ourselves to the following key principles: To do the right thin…

.NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews

00:00:00 - Needs Work: API Change Request: Expression support for ref and readonly ref types https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/26772#issuecomment-525417923 00:05:44 - Needs Work: Add a ValueStringBuilder https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/28379#iss…

Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release | Windows Command Line

The time has come for another update to the Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 is now available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub! And for those interested in more detail, please review the Terminal v0.4 release notes. Settings Updates Profile…

Navier-Stokes Equations - Numberphile

Tom Crawford (sporting a Navier-Stokes tattoo) talks about the famed equations - subject of a $1m Millennium Prize. Part 2 (Reynolds Number): https://youtu.be/wtIhVwPruwY Part 3 (River Water): https://youtu.be/5mGh0r3zC6Y More links & stuff in full description…

Introduction to using XPath in JavaScript

This document describes the interface for using XPath in JavaScript internally, in extensions, and from websites. Mozilla implements a fair amount of the DOM 3 XPath, which means that XPath expressions can be run against both HTML and XML documents.