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How to work with dates and time with Python

Get a better understanding of datetime in Python with this primer.

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Boostnote is simple note app, code manager, snippet manager and memo app for software programmer. Boostnote save all of your information about devepment. Be a hacker's brain.

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If you’ve ever used C or C ++ for sure you’ve had to use methods that make your job easier, no one likes to re-invent the wheel (unless you’re a caveman). And is that many times we find cases where we have to do the calculation of a square root with sqrt, or we just want to use printf to print a message on the screen.

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Converting from BIOS to UEFI Using the Windows 10 Creators Update MBR2GPT Tool

Windows Program Manager, Desmond Lee, demonstrates the new MBR2GPT disk conversion tool that’s part of Windows 10 Creators Update. This is a comprehensive yet concise overview that explains h…

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We've been talking about writing less complex JavaScript. We do this by choosing the right abstraction to solve a problem. But how do you know which abstraction to use? So far, we haven't looked at any concrete examples of how to do this. In this article we look at how to deal with JavaScript arrays, without using any loops. The end result is less complex code.

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Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!

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802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.

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I honestly think most people simply are unaware of how much personal data they leak on a daily basis as they use their computers. Even if they have some inkling along those lines, I still imagine many think of the data they leak only in terms of individual facts, such as their name or where they ate lunch.

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Bind is an extremely flexible DNS server that can be configured in many different ways. In this guide, we will discuss how to install Bind on an Ubuntu 14.04 server and configure it as either a caching or forwarding DNS server. Leveraging a DNS server

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How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

Vim is big; so big that it does some very useful things that are often overlooked. Plugins can buy us a lot of functionality, but they can add a lot of burde...

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A live blockchain demo in a browser.

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Thrill – Big Data Processing with C++

Yesterday, I discovered an experimental Big Data processing framework written in C++ called Thrill. As most of you surely know, the well-known frameworks of this kind are mostly based on JVM, like Apache Spark or Apache Flink. This, of course, has many advantages, like easily accessible interfaces and a more domain-oriented approach, as we don't have to deal with "Ceremony Code" or any internals that don't touch our domain logic. However, everything comes at a cost and utilizing a VM is a price to be paid no matter how optimized your code is. It's no wonder these projects often resort to Unsafe and similar tricks to keep the JVM GC away from their precious resources. Anyway, this article's intention isn't to attack these projects or JVM but simply to show a fast yet easily usable framework that runs on native code. Although the project's source code is portable and can compile under Windows (I tested it) some important interfaces, like networking, are currently only available as mocks.

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Until a few months ago I didn't use Emacs themes. A `custom-set-faces` form in my init file gradually accumulated face specs like a lint-roller. Then I started to use Solarized. Mostly light, sometimes dark. Switching between them using M-x load-theme ...

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Network programming using the Go language