Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final document to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur. Now, thanks to some leaked screenshots to TechCrunch from a Palantir shareholder, we might h…
techcrunch.com·Danny Crichton@dannycrichton / 8:20 am PDT•August 21, 2020comment Comment··5-6 minutes
Per #898
Implementing reachability analysis, which will allow instructions that follow calls to methods that never return to be excluded from coverage metrics.
Determines what methods will return w...
I've worked in IT consulting for over 10 years in various roles. My current job includes meeting with prospects and discussing our IT services and how they fit into their business. This has been the first position I've held where I deal with a lot mo...
neoslash.net·David GaliataPublished on May 3, 20203 min read··3 minutes
I talked with Troy Hunt about his website and about general privacy online.
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If you promise not to check your email while we’re talking, we promise to not waste your time. If you agree to look me in the eye and try to absorb the gist of what I’m saying, I agree …
If you are out, about, and going to the mercados in Oaxaca in the last couple of months, you may have seen a clever contraption like the one below set up outside the Independencia entrance to Merca…
We’re all familiar with the suited snakes that spend every 8-to-10-hour workday calling to convince us to leave our current, steady jobs for nothing more than a few bucks more and criminally bad insurance. With that said then, why do recruiters even exist?
We launch the Splitgraph Data Delivery Network: a single endpoint that lets any PostgreSQL application, client or BI tool to connect and query over 40,000 public datasets hosted or proxied by Splitgraph.
splitgraph.com·AuthorsArtjoms Iškovs, Miles Richardson··7-9 minutesdatabase
I’ve recently merged a PR by Stephen to rst2df that reformats the entire codebase to align with PEP 8. As rst2pdf is over a decade old, this has resulted in a lot of changes to the files which now have Stephen’s name attached. This affects git blame.
Last week, Mozilla announced some general changes in our investments and we would like to outline how they will impact our MDN platform efforts moving forward. It hurts to make ...
Developer Advocate Remote preferred The world loves Postgres If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data youll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop EDB has a lot to …
When debugging, you may find yourself staring at a std::exception_ptr and want to know what exception is inside it. What you see in the MSVC header file is that a std::exception_ptr is a class that consists of two pointers enigmatically named _Data1 and _Data2…
The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. Roslyn PM Mika Dumont shows a number of the latest features that make your coding life better, including her favorite (IntelliSense completio…
Last time, we saw how to dig the exception object out of a std::exception_ptr. But what kind of exception objects might there be? For C++/CX code, you are probably going to get a Platform::Exception^. 0:007> ?? p class std::exception_ptr +0x000 _Data1 :…
The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. Roslyn PM Mika Dumont shows a number of the latest features that make your coding
channel9.msdn.com·by Robert Green, Leslie Richardson [MSFT]··3 minutesides
A customer needed to generate an 8-byte unique value, and their initial idea was to generate a GUID and throw away the second half, keeping the first eight bytes. They wanted to know if this was a good idea. No, it’s not a good idea.
Part 33 of my ongoing series is coming but I did not get all the code written that I wanted to this week, so it will be delayed. In the meanwhile: Living in Canada as a child, of course I grew up l…
This page discusses how I added a microSD card to my reMarkable tablet. I did this because I want to develop software for my rM without wearing out the internal eMMC. I chose an external card because I want to be able to swap them easily; it also makes backups…
Neil Sloane from the OEIS discusses the Choix de Bruxelles.
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I'm about two weeks into Rust now, so this feels like a good time to write a critique, before I get Stockholm Syndrome'd. My main motivation in learning Rust is that I have to maintain some of Dark's Rust code. There was a recent outage related to that code, a…
During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during th…
Maggie Appleton is an art director, anthropologist, and metaphor-making illustrator. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about technology, culture, and programming
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In January 2019, we set out to rewrite the critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify’s platform to offer the fastest online shopping experience possible, entirely from scratch and without downtime.
The Storefront Renderer is a server-side…
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