TIOBE has published a ranking of the popularity of programming languages for 2019. The leaders remain Java, C, Python and C++. Compared to the edition of the rating published a year ago, the ratings of C# (from 7 to 5), Swift (from 15 to 9), Ruby (from 18 to 11), Go (from 16 to 14) and D (from 25 to 17) have increased. XNUMX). Decrease […]
You go to Habr more than once a day, right? Not to read something useful, but just to scroll through the main page in search of “what to add to the list to read later”? Ever noticed that posts published in the middle of the night get fewer views and ratings than those published during the day? What can you say about publications that appeared in the middle of the weekend? When I published the previous […]
10 years ago, the game VVVVVV was released - an indie puzzle platformer in 8-bit style with beautiful chiptune music and unusual controls - instead of jumping, the hero changes the direction of gravity. The first version was on flash, then the author ported the game to C++ and SDL. The game received a lot of good reviews and, it seems, was awarded something. On the occasion of the anniversary of January 11, the author […]
Mozilla has begun testing the Firefox Voice add-on with the implementation of an experimental voice navigation system that allows you to use speech commands to perform common actions in the browser. Currently only English commands are supported. To activate, you need to click on the indicator in the address bar and issue a voice command (the microphone is muted in the background). From typical voice control systems […]
The final implementation of the BLAKE3 algorithm has been published, offering a cryptographic hash function designed for applications such as file integrity checking, message authentication, and generating data for digital signatures. BLAKE3 is not intended for hashing passwords (for passwords you need to use yescrypt, bcrypt, scrypt or Argon2), as it is aimed at calculating hashes as quickly as possible with a guarantee of no collisions, protection against finding a preimage […]
Corsair has announced the A500, a large-size cooling solution suitable for use with AMD and Intel processors. The solution includes an aluminum radiator with dimensions 137 × 169 × 103 mm. On its opposite sides there is one 120 mm ML120 PWM fan installed. The fan speed is adjustable in the range from 400 to 2400 rpm. The declared noise level does not exceed 36 […]
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Diagram of the ARPA computer network for June 1967. An empty circle is a computer with shared access, a circle with a line is a terminal for one user Other articles in the series: History of the relay The method of “fast transmission of information”, or the Birth of the relay Long-range writer Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay Talking telegraph Just connect The forgotten generation of relay computers Electronic era History of electronic computers […]
Other articles in the cycle: History of the relay The method of "rapid transmission of information", or the birth of the relay Long-ranger Galvanism Entrepreneurs And finally, the relay The talking telegraph Simply connect The forgotten generation of relay computers The electronic era The history of electronic computers Prologue ENIAC Colossus The electronic revolution The history of the transistor darkness From the crucible of war Repeated reinvention The history of the Internet The backbone […]
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I recently read an article in which Mark Zuckerberg made predictions about the next decade. I really like the topic of forecasts, I try to think along these lines myself. So, this article contains his words that every decade there is a change in the technology platform. In the 90s it was a personal computer, in the 10s it was the Internet, and in the XNUMXs it was a smartphone. On […]
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