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I'm going to describe a common frontend/backend split design. Try to visualize it and see if it resembles anything you may have run, built, or relied on over the years. Then see if you've encountered the "gotcha" that I describe later on. Let's say…
17 February 2015Hacker News
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11 February 2015WIRED
Look out, Cisco. Facebook is now running on computer networking gear designed by the company’s own engineers. According to Najam Ahmad, who oversees network engineering at Facebook, the company is using its own designs inside at least some of the data…
11 February 2015WIRED
A 100-year-old font foundry gets into the smart-watch game. The post This New Technology Will Make Fonts Look Great on Small Screens appeared first on WIRED.
11 February 2015Hacker News
10 February 2015Hacker News
This software generates a teletext signal in software. No hardware mods are needed. This support both PAL (Teletext) and NTSC (CEA608 format captions). Have a Raspberry Pi connected to a TV by composite video. It doesn't matter if you are running X or…
8 February 2015Macworld
When your Mac starts acting up, you’ll probably run through some common troubleshooting procedures, such as restarting it, running Disk Utility, and perhaps performing a Safe Boot. Your repair repertoire should also include a couple of additional…
6 February 2015Hacker News
5 February 2015Hacker News
Why on earth would a developer want to contribute to an open source project? We ran a study on this a little while ago¹. The reasons are all quite simple, and of course are different for many people. We can broadly categorize the type of contributor into…
4 February 2015