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TL;DR: I design short wrapper scripts to send batch jobs to a cluster. The first architecture (ventilator-worker-sink) is suboptimal, therefore I consider another pattern to dispatch the jobs efficiently. Recently I had to make a big chunk of computations…
27 May 2015Engadget RSS Feed
You know what's a good cure for office boredom? A Mac app that changes parts of your screen into a playable level straight out of Super Mario Bros. Thanks to Aaron Randall's Screentendo desktop add-on, a similar process to that of taking a screenshot...
27 May 2015Google Open Source Blog
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.
26 May 2015Hacker News
Google has announced a new typeface for Google Books: Literata. Replacing Droid Serif as the default typeface for e-books via Google Books, Google says Literata is “perfect for long reads on all devices”. Created in conjunction with TypeTogether, Google…
19 May 2015Hacker News
Copyright (c) 2014-2019 DeNA Co., Ltd., Kazuho Oku, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Domingo Alvarez Duarte, Nick Desaulniers, Marc Hörsken, Masahiro Nagano, Jeff Marrison, Daisuke Maki, Laurentiu Nicola, Justin Zhu, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, Ryosuke Matsumoto, Masaki TAGAWA,…
19 May 2015Hacker News
It used to be so easy. Measuring the weight of a web page in the early days of the web was merely a matter of waiting for the page to finish loading and then counting up the size of its constituent resources. Since then, however, a lot has changed. The…
19 May 2015Hacker News
19 May 2015Hacker News
BitTorrent is an open, peer-to-peer protocol for distributing files. You can use the BitTorrent protocol to retrieve any publicly-accessible object in Amazon S3. This section describes why you might want to…
18 May 2015Hacker News
dnsdiff compares the responses between two nameservers and provides output in universal diff format. Run dnsdiff before delegating authority of a zone to a new provider to ensure that the new provider has imported your zonefile correctly. usage: dnsdiff…
15 May 2015Hacker News
A functional library for watermarking images in the browser. Written with ES6, and made available to current browsers via Babel. Supports urls, file inputs, blobs, and on-page images. Note: For anyone that is interested: I ported this to a ClojureScript…
15 May 2015