Leaked Palantir S-1 shows $579M loss in 2019 – TechCrunch 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 mi...
Exclude code that follows [DoesNotReturn] from code coverage (per #898) by kevin-montrose · Pull Request #904 · coverlet-coverage/coverlet 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...
This is your one shot 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...
fast.ai releases new deep learning course, four libraries, and 600-page book We're releasing Practical Deep Learning for Coders (2020), fastai v2, fastcore, fastscript, and fastgpu.
Generating Sales from YouTube micro-influencers Explore the numbers of my YouTube marketing campaign for Discord Bot Studio.
You don’t always have to be productive - WEEB TRASH LIFE Did you know that being constantly stuck in the productivity trap isn’t really healthy? Now you do. Wanna’ get out of it? Read these tips.
Tom Spark Talks with Troy Hunt - Owner of HaveIBeenPwned! I talked with Troy Hunt about his website and about general privacy online. ►Privacy Review/tier list website with all ratings: https://vpntierlist.com/ Favorite VPN provider : TorGuard VPN http://bit.ly/tomsparkTorGuard Favorite browser: http://brave...
Toward a Zoom agreement 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 …
Hand washing stations 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…
Why I Started Experimental Cooking — A Pursuit of Joy Cooking to me is not about creating the best tasting dish in the world. Rather, it is an outlet of expression, a means to evoke sensations.
Why Do Technical Recruiters Even Exist? - Scott Turman 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...
Port 5432 is open: introducing the Splitgraph Data Delivery Network 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.
Why efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better | Psyche Ideas The urge to do everything faster and better is risky. Far wiser to do what’s good enough for the range of possible futures
Ignoring mass reformatting commits with git blame – Rob Allen's DevNotes 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.
An Update on MDN Web Docs – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog 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, Careers At EDB 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 lo...
Inside the Microsoft STL: The std::exception_ptr | The Old New Thing 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 _...
.NET Productivity Tips and Tricks 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 comp...
Recognizing different types of exception objects that Windows platform libraries can throw | The Old New Thing 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 ...
How NAT traversal works In this post, we'll talk about how to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two machines, in spite of all the obstacles in the way.
Productivity Tips and Tricks 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
GUIDs are globally unique, but substrings of GUIDs aren't | The Old New Thing 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.
Introducing the new Azure SDKs Azure SDK Website: https://aka.ms/azsdk Azure SDK Twitter: https://twitter.com/@AzureSDK Azure SDK Blog: https://aka.ms/azsdk/blog Azure SDK Releases: https://aka.ms/azsdk/releases Azure SDK Guidelines: https://aka.ms/azsdk/guide Azure SDK Code: https://a...
Approximate results may vary 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…
reMarkable microSD 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 ba...
The Brussels Choice - Numberphile Neil Sloane from the OEIS discusses the Choix de Bruxelles. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Neil Sloane founded the runs the OEIS: htt...
First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml 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 co...
Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic | APNIC Blog Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons? 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 duri...
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes 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
Building a Second Brain An online bootcamp on leveraging digital tools to enhance your creativity, productivity, and learning, by Tiago Forte
Lightroom App Update Wipes Users' Photos and Presets, Adobe Says they are 'Not Recoverable' This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaff. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad
Development quotes of the week [LWN.net] Posted Aug 19, 2020 22:57 UTC (Wed) by flussence (subscriber, #85566) In reply to: Development quotes of the week by mathstuf Parent article: Development quotes of the week
How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite 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...
WSL 2 Support is coming to Windows 10 Versions 1903 and 1909 | Windows Command Line Support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 distros is being backported to Windows 10 version 1903, and 1909!
Docker Desktop & WSL 2 - Backport Update - Docker Blog Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version announcements!