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289
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9 years ago
498
167
Update on Multi-Process Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/12/21/update-on-multi-process-firefox/
394
105
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https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/press-releases-and-statements/government-breaking-law-collecting-everyones-internet-and-call
381
217
Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
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376
188
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http://words.steveklabnik.com/four-years-with-rust
364
115
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316
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274
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http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-tastrophe.html
233
The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China, It’s Automation
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205
Famed poker pro with ‘remarkable’ $9.6M scheme has to pay it back
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/20/famed-poker-pro-with-remarkable-9-6-million-scheme-has-to-pay-it-back-judge-rules/
252
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Employee sues Google for 'illegal' confidentiality policies
https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/20/employee-sues-google-for-illegal-confidentiality-policies/
229
179
Taking a month off from OSS volunteering
https://snarky.ca/why-i-took-october-off-from-oss-volunteering/
224
76
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http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-anti-patterns-read-modify-write-cycles/
214
203
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204
137
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13232883
63
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https://medium.com/@afd_icl/gpu-folks-we-need-to-talk-about-control-flow-c20fd225197e#.t8zrzrc46
201
34
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http://docker-saigon.github.io/post/Docker-Internals/
165
95
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https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-pages/#usage-limits
112
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https://fortran.io/
162
55
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http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/12/21/Rails-5-0-1-has-been-released/
156
33
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http://www.blog.jay-greco.com/wp/?p=116
26
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https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget
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153
58
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144
12
Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/windows-server-support-kubernetes.html
143
66
Microsoft wins $927M Pentagon contract
http://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract-View/Article/1035122
139
266
Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/amazon-sells-out-of-echo-speakers-in-midst-of-holiday-rush
75
Raymond Chen explains what the Y2K was like at Microsoft [video]
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135
56
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https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/21/death-politics-most-edited-articles/
129
43
GCC 6.3 Released
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-12/msg00132.html
123
52
What's wrong with 2006 programming? (2010)
http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/what-is-wrong-with-2006-programming.html
38
Google Cloud Platform Icon Library for Architecture Diagrams
https://cloud.google.com/icons/
21
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https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
45
LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to put the right features in front of right users
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/20/launchdarkly-gets-8-7m-to-get-access-to-the-right-features-in-front-of-right-users/
102
White House predicts all truck, taxi, and delivery drivers will be wiped out
http://qz.com/868716/the-white-house-predicts-nearly-all-truck-taxi-and-delivery-driver-jobs-will-be-automated/
101
94
Confronting the Credibility Gap for Crewed Exploration of Mars
http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2016/09/mars-society-talk-confronting.html
97
19
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96
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/human-cells-eat-nanowires
91
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http://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-graphics/
88
60
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https://googleblade.com/
87
5
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-court-privacy-idUSKBN14A13I?il=0
85
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https://blog.parsec.tv/the-loyalty-to-amds-gpu-product-among-amd-cpu-buyers-is-decreasing-9647c70a6da4#.1te2mdi4i
72
3
https://hub.zhovner.com/geek/how-skype-fixes-security-vulnerabilities/
70
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http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.125.2438
69
18
The Proposal of the Neutrino (1930)
http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-proposal-of-the-neutrino