Gigabyte per Second Unicode Regex Search with Icgrep

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Let's look for lines containing Greek characters in 2.78 GB Arabic language Wikipedia file. We'll use a tiny Intel NUC box with a low-power Intel Core i3-5010U CPU @ 2.10GHz and a Samsung SM 951 SSD (256GB solid-state drive with PCI express interface). …

25 October 2015

Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API

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Note: This branch and README covers the upcoming 2.0 release. View 1.x docs here. Quill is a modern rich text editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It was created by Jason Chen and Byron Milligan and actively maintained by Slab. To get…

25 October 2015

Visualising Code Growth with Git and D3.js

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25 October 2015

Watch this iPhone screen protector heal scratches within a second

Engadget

The folks who came up with the self-healing iPhone case is now back with something a lot more impressive. Innerexile's earlier technology could repair light scratches within about half a minute (given the right temperature, that is), but the latest...

25 October 2015

React Native – Recreating the Apple TV Icons

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I had attempted to recreate this in the past but could never come up with anything elegant. I saw this post not too long ago Recreating the Apple TV icons in JavaScript and CSS by Nash Vail. He then went on to create a jQuery plugin to accomplish the…

24 October 2015

Use this instead of press releases

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I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media. Their pitches are long-winded and rambling. They ask if they could…

23 October 2015

Internet of Things, Messaging and MySQL

MySQL Performance Blog

Personal Projects with the Internet of Things So you want to do a personal project with the Internet of Things (maybe a home automation or metrics collection or something else)? In this blog post I will tell about my ... The post Internet of Things,…

23 October 2015

Show HN: Probe API – Utilities for distributed network testing

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ProbeAPI Tools is a set of cross platform console command line utilities which are using public API to make distributed pinging, tracerouting and etc. All these tools are working almost the same as Windows and Linux built-in tools, but all network…

22 October 2015