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Kotlin provides many new ways to work with functions but in the end it all comes down to how these map onto Java's way of doing things. In this extract from the book on Kotlin by Mike James we look at how to work with and understand inline functions. 
There is a rule about not optimizing code too soon. Perhaps we should add to that the rule that being too tidy is often a mistake. Here we have a JavaScript example where things go wrong because of an attempt to keep the code compact and understandable. 
Undoubtedly OpenAI's Neural Network for deep text generation was built with good intentions, but can its sheer power become a recipe for disaster? 
A free online course that brings together the most popular programming language with one of today's hottest topics has just started and you can still enroll with plenty of time to complete it. 
Microsoft has bought Pull Panda to add more collaborative tools to GitHub. The acquisition came exactly a year after Microsoft bought GitHub. 
Open Source vs. Commercial, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud? Which one? Last month ScaleGrid attended Percona's Live event, got the insight on the most used "databases" by Percona's clients in 2019 and made a report out of it. 
The Raspberry Pi 4 is now available, and for the same base price of $35, but the specifications are much improved. This is a Pi that you can use as a desktop machine. 
A system that automatically generates optimized cryptography code is in use in Google Chrome. The details were revealed at the recent IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy by MIT researchers. 
The plaque proclaims BASIC as "the first user-friendly computer programming language" and is located on New Hampshire Route 120, close to Dartmouth College where it was created in 1964. 
Vistitors to last month's 2019 Big Data Expo held in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, southwest China were treated to a nightly light show staged using 526 drones. The quality of the display is exceptional, proving that drones can replace fireworks for spectacular large-scale displays. 
Google's workshop for experimental products has created Game Builder, a way of creating multiplayer games without the need to know how to program games. 
Nim has been updated with what the developers say is the release candidate for version 1.0. Nim (formerly called Nimrod) is a statically typed and compiled systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness. 
Software development is flooded with IDE's and text editors, the general consensus being that VSCode is the most popular. What about Vim? 
A new open source development workflow framework for creating machine learning code has been released. Kedro has PySpark integration and an SDK for working with datasets.