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Mentally detach yourself from the usual perspective on work — both yours and the company's. I invite you to consider the flow of money within the company. You, your neighbors, your boss — we all stand in the path of money. We are used to seeing money in the form of tasks. You might not think of them as money. If you are a programmer, then […]
Some time ago, we introduced you to a smart thermostat. This article was initially intended to demonstrate its firmware and management system. However, to explain the logic behind the thermostat and what we have implemented, it is essential to outline the entire concept as a whole. Regarding automation, automation can be conditionally divided into three categories: Category 1 — individual “smart” devices. You […]
According to a tweet from an organization employee (Chris Hartjes), Mozilla has recently laid off 70 workers (out of a total of 1000), including all lead designers from Mozilla Quality Assurance, whose main responsibilities include testing new features and fixing bugs. In response, a hashtag #MozillaLifeboat was launched by the laid-off employees on Twitter, allowing them to share […]
The author of the Rust-based web framework actix-web deleted the repository after facing criticism for the "incorrect use" of the Rust language. The actix-web framework, which has been downloaded over 800,000 times, allows for the integration of HTTP server and client functionality into Rust applications, focusing on maximum performance and leading in many tests […]
Development of the SeaMonkey internet application suite has resumed, which integrates a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, and Lightning are no longer included). The first beta release of the new SeaMonkey 2.53 branch has been proposed for testing. The browser engine used in SeaMonkey has been updated to the status of Firefox 60 (previously […]
WhiteSource analyzed the licenses of 4 million open packages and 130 million code files across 200 different programming languages and concluded that the share of copyleft licenses is steadily decreasing. In 2012, 59% of all open projects were licensed under copyleft licenses such as GPL, LGPL, and AGPL, while the share of permissive licenses like MIT, Apache, and […]
"The greatest of all programming languages" — Alan Kay, "on Lisp" When McCarthy developed Lisp in the late 1950s, it was radically different from existing languages, the most notable of which was Fortran. Lisp embodied nine new ideas: 1. Conditional Statements (Conditionals). Conditional statements are the if-then-else construct. We now take them for granted. They were invented by McCarthy during […]
Guiding Philosophy 1. Programming Languages for People Programming languages are how people talk to computers. A computer is happy to converse in any language that is unambiguous. The reason we have high-level languages is that people cannot cope with machine language. The essence of programming languages is to prevent our poor fragile human […]
Paul Graham is one of the most respected figures among tech professionals, founders, and investors. He is a first-class programmer (having created two programming languages), a hacker, the founder of the bold accelerator Y Combinator, and a philosopher. With his thoughts and intellect, Paul Graham dives into a wide range of fields: from predicting the development of programming languages a hundred years into the future to human qualities and ways to fix/hack the economy. And […]
On January 16, a major release of GNU Guile took place — an embedded implementation of the Scheme programming language with support for multithreading, asynchrony, network operations, and POSIX system calls, a binary C interface, PEG parsing, network REPL, XML; it has its own object-oriented programming system. The main feature of the new version is full support for JIT compilation, which has allowed for an average speedup in program execution by two […]
An update for Chrome browser version 79.0.3945.130 is now available, which fixes four vulnerabilities, one of which has been classified as critical, allowing bypass of all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment. Details about the critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-6378) have not yet been disclosed, only that it is triggered by accessing a previously freed memory block in the speech recognition component. […]
The release of the Mir 1.7 display server has been announced, the development of which continues under Canonical, despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand for Canonical's projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Mir can be used as a compositing server for Wayland, allowing it to run in environments […]
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