Google Code Jam and Kick Start 2023 Is Cancelled. Is the trend of competitive programming coming to an end?
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Google Code Jam and Kick Start 2023 Is Cancelled
According to the Coding Competitions site, Google Code Jam is being discontinued, as well as Kick Start. Here is a link for more information. This year, they instead plan to hold four "farewell rounds" with no prizes on April 15th. According to the FAQ, rounds…
Demoscene: Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro - Ctrl-Alt-Test
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Procedural 3D mesh generation in a 64kB intro - Ctrl-Alt-Test
In this third article of our series on the making of a 64kB intro, we present how we use and combine a few simple techniques to create a variety of procedural 3D meshes for very few bytes.
Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift
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Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift
Like electronics or photonics, magnonics is an engineering subfield that aims to advance information technologies when it comes to speed, device architecture, and energy consumption. A magnon corresponds ...
Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies: A Practical Example
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Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies: A Practical Example
Authors: Craig Box (ARMO), Ben Hirschberg (ARMO)
Admission control is an important part of the Kubernetes control plane, with several internal features depending on the ability to approve or change an API object as it is submitted to the server. It is also…
Admission control is an important part of the Kubernetes control plane, with several internal features depending on the ability to approve or change an API object as it is submitted to the server. It is also…
Switching from Engineering to Management
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Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup
I want to share with you my experience in moving to a CTO position. This post will mainly concern management on the technical side.
How Software Companies Die (Beehive Story)
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Reflections on 10,000 Hours of DevOps
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Reflections on 10,000 Hours of DevOps
Some reflections after putting 10,000 hours into DevOps engineering.
From my early adolescence doing sysadmin work, customizing my Arch Linux installation, to
From my early adolescence doing sysadmin work, customizing my Arch Linux installation, to
BSP Trees: The Magic Behind Collision Detection in Quake
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BSP Trees: The Magic Behind Collision Detection in Quake
An explanation of how Quake, and other games like it, use this revolutionary data structure to stop the player from walking through walls and falling through the ground.
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Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons…
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Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons…
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
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Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.
Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"
Quicker, but also more convenient
Introducing Slint 1.0 - The Next-Generation Native GUI Toolkit for Desktop and Embedded
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Slint 1.0: The Next-Generation Native GUI Toolkit Matures
Slint 1.0 Release blog
Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers
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Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings
Google CFO Ruth Porat made references to the year 2008, when Google made similar cuts to respond to the financial crisis.
Designing a proxy server for preview environments - part 1
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How does Preevy's Proxy service work?
This is the first of a series of posts about the Preevy proxy service.
Safari releases are development hell
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Safari releases are development hell
Safari 16.4 rolled out last week, and for us it's been a nightmare. We make the browser-based game creation app Construct. Early versions of Safari 16.4 broke opening projects, previewing projects, and all existing content published with Construct, all in…
How SerenityOS declares ssize_t
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How SerenityOS declares ssize_t
This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^)
Bill Gates says calls to pause AI won't 'solve challenges'
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Bill Gates says calls to pause AI won't 'solve challenges'
Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology.
New tool from curl creator - trurl - command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation
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GitHub - curl/trurl: a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.
a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation. - curl/trurl