MIT on how to cheat on a Google interview [pdf]

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Etsy CTO: We Need Software Engineers, Not Developers

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When it comes to the practice of DevOps, few companies have been on the cutting edge as long as Etsy, which once famously asserted that its new engineer hires would commit code to production after the first day of work. Don’t be fooled by the crafty look…

Detecting Code Indentation

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The Firefox developer tools use CodeMirror as the source editor in many places (including the new WebIDE). CodeMirror provides auto-indentation when starting a new line and can convert tab presses into indents. Both of these features are frustrating…

MailBar for Mac OS X makes it easy to monitor your mail inboxes

Apple World Today

Real estate is key in your workflow. The apps that I use constantly every day I set to Full Screen mode. Other than that, I prefer my desktop to be clear of anything other than files that I am working on at that moment.

How MaxScale monitors servers

MySQL Performance Blog

In this post, we’ll address how MaxScale monitors servers. We saw in the We saw in the previous post how we could deal with high availability (HA) and read-write split using MaxScale. If you remember ...

Maximizing PHP 7 Performance with NGINX, Part I: Web Serving and Caching

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PHP is the most popular way to create a server‑side Web application, with roughly 80% market share. (ASP.net is a distant second, and Java an even more distant third.) The PHP universe includes a multitude of PHP frameworks; the most popular include…

Passive Wi-Fi

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We introduce Passive Wi-Fi that demonstrates for the first time that one can generate 802.11b transmissions using backscatter communication, while consuming 3 - 4 orders of magnitude lower power than existing Wi-Fi chipsets. Passive Wi-Fi…

Developing Our First iOS App with React Native

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When we started talking about creating a mobile app for our candidates, we were pretty clueless about what it would actually take to build a mobile app. We knew generally that we wanted something cool, fun to use, and really slick, but none of us had ever…

Copied review: A versatile cloud-synced clipboard manager for Mac and iOS

Macworld

On the Mac, Copied lives in the menubar, where it can be accessed from any application you happen to be using at the time. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Voice Recognition and Text to Speech in Python

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It’s tough for an erstwhile Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, I decided to use a library for speech recognition and synthesis.…