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June 22 - 28, 2017
Book Reviews
- Clojure Recipes
Alex Armstrong awarded this book a rating of 4 out of 5:
This book is mostly about the infrastructure that surrounds Clojure and isn't a traditional language-based recipe book. It doesn't tell you much about Clojure itself but it does tell you about using Clojure with other Clojure- based tools.
- Statistics Done Wrong
Mike James awarded this book a rating of 4 out of 5, with the verdict:
If you already know enough stats to follow, this is a good read and should convince you that we need to teach statistics much better than we do.
News
Open Source Friday Wednesday 28 June
GitHub is inviting every one - individuals, teams, departments and companies - to join in Open Source Friday, a structured program for contributing to open source that started inside GitHub and has since expanded.
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DIY AI To Sort 2 Metric Tons Of Lego Wednesday 28 June
This is an interesting story because it suggests that machine learning and neural networks in particular have graduated to being useful in an almost casual sort of way. No longer is the use of a neural network a research project. For want of a better term, it's a maker project.
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The Future Development Of Kotlin Wednesday 28 June
With Google's promotion of Kotlin to a supported Android language, the way that it is going to develop is much more important. We now have the results of the JetBrain's survey of what programmers want in the language.
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Julia 0.6 Improves Type Handling Tuesday 27 June
The latest version of Julia has been released with what has been described as a sweeping overhaul of the type system and numerous improvements to syntax and to the standard library.
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Scratch 2.0 Offline In Raspbian Tuesday 27 June
An update to the Raspberry Pi version of Linux, Raspbian, has an unexpected extra - the ability to run Scratch 2.0 locally, without the need for a browser connection, and with custom extensions which allows the user to control the Pi’s GPIO pins.
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Apache Kudu Improves Web Interface Monday 26 June
Apache Kudu 1.4 has been released with improvements to the usability of the Kudu web interfaces, and a new file system check utility.
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$2 Million To Reinvent The Internet Monday 26 June
This US-only contest comes from Mozilla and the National Science Foundation who have joined forces to call for big ideas that will keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. There are two challenges each with two phases, for design concept and working prototype, each with multiple cash prizes.
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Q.bo One - Second Generation Robot For Developers, Hobbyists and Kids Saturday 24 June
A new robot from the TheCorpora Robotic Company has been launched on Indiegogo, where you can order them, in kit form and fully built, for delivery in December. Q.bo One is an open source standard robot that uses a combination of Raspberry Pi and Arduino and can be programmed in Scratch.
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D Gets A Boost From GCC Friday 23 June
D is the language that should have followed C. Well it should have if languages progressed as letters of the alphabet, but this really isn't the case. D did get some attention, but it never achieved the number of users need to put it in the same category as C or C++. However, it isn't dead. In fact it is far from dead as it has just been added to the GCC. Is D a language you should consider?
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Open Source Valued Despite Poor Documentation and Bad Behavior Thursday 22 June
Findings from an Open Source Survey designed by GitHub together with researchers from academia, industry, and the community, provide interesting insights about the attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software. The full results are available as an open data set available on GitHub.
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The Core
The Programmers Guide To Kotlin - Control Tuesday 27 June
All programming languages have to give you ways of modifying the flow of control - making loops, conditional execution and so on. Kotlin uses a fairly traditional approach, but there are some exceptionally nice touches that if used correctly can make your programs much easier to understand.
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Dangerous Logic - De Morgan & Programming Thursday 22 June
Programmers are master logicians - well they sometimes are. Most of the time they are as useless at it as the average joe. The difference is that the average joe can avoid logic and hence the mistakes. How good are you at logical expressions and why exactly is Augustus De Morgan your best friend, logically speaking?
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