Ancient programming language COBOL can make you bank, literally
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Clever Analogies for Tricky Terms (security related)
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Video: Golang's Realtime Garbage Collector
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AWS vs Digital Ocean - A Performance Comparison
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The "Java in 2017" Survey Results
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Efficient UTF8 processing in C# (an agony in two fits)
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Python List Functions
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What is GNU Social and is Mastodon Social a “Twitter Clone”?
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Samsung’s Linux Based Tizen OS Is A Security Nightmare
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kube-applier: Declarative Configuration for Kubernetes [xpost /r/kubernetes]
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.NET Futures: Type Classes and Extensions
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MySQL 8.0.1 introduces SKIP LOCKED and NOWAIT lock modes
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Bitbucket Cloud gets a new navigation experience
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Gut Driven Development
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Micro-monolith anti-pattern
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Performant text processing in C#
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Writing and debugging Linux C++ applications from Visual Studio using the "Windows Subsystem for Linux"
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Wedding at Scale: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
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How to Beat Pong Using Policy Gradients (LIVE)
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VSTS Extension for VS Code now provides support for TFVC
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Scaling Mastodon
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