Macworld
Intel’s been quiet about its super-fast Optane memory and SSD products, but a few emerging details may hint at how they could be used in products like Apple’s MacBooks. Optane is a brand name for a new type of memory and SSD based on 3D Xpoint, a…
11 March 2016Hacker News
Canonical announced a few weeks ago that ZFS will be included in the next release of Ubuntu Linux, on by default and fully supported. And it’s no exaggeration when Dustin Kirkland describes ZFS as “one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a…
7 March 2016Hacker News
Writing your own TCP/IP stack may seem like a daunting task. Indeed, TCP has accumulated many specifications over its lifetime of more than thirty years. The core specification, however, is seemingly compact - the important parts being TCP header parsing,…
6 March 2016Hacker News
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6 March 2016Hacker News
6 March 2016Hacker News
The ability to leverage user settings at the browser or system level within your application's design is pretty compelling. There is now a w3c discussion on standardizing a way to reference the system font. "Going beyond the system font, iOS has dynamic…
6 March 2016Hacker News
I tired of mangling shell scripts to produce JSON. You’ve likely seen this somewhere: It gets merrier if an element contains an environment variable: open double, close single, add variable, open single, blergh. A here! script will do it as will a a…
5 March 2016Hacker News
Lets imagine you’re a developer at a company that sells widgets. There is lots of widgets of different types. You have suppliers, you have clients, you have a sales department, accounting, human resources, the works. You use Oracle, SQL Server, or another…
5 March 2016Hacker News
4 March 2016Engadget
By David Murphy This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer's guide to the best technology. Read the full article here. After spending 50 hours researching 19 different monitors and testing six finalists, we recommend the 24-inc...
4 March 2016