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Closures are logical but subtle and you need to make sure that you really understand them. This is made easier if you think about a closure as a preserved execution context. In this extract from my recent book the emphasis is on when functions share that context.
In the second part of our mini-series on Google's alternative to C, it is time to come face to face with Go's most interesting features - objects and interfaces. 
There is a move to reduce the amount of code in the Python standard library - to remove the dead or dying batteries. The suggestion is that the PyPI package library could take the strain. New research suggests that there might be some difficulties in this. 
Java? I hear you say. Does this old horse stand a chance in the era of cool programming languages? Yes indeed says Nikos Vaggalis who is about to embark on Udacity's latest nanodegree in order to give us an Insider's Guide. 
Mozilla Developer Network, generally referred to as MDN, has been rewritten using React. MDN is Mozilla's multilingual resource for web documentation. 
A course introducing Kotlin to experienced Java developers with Kotlin's lead developer as one of the instructors is available on the Coursera platform. Sounds too good to miss. So we tried it. 
You will have heard of pair programming when two programmers team up to work on the same problem. Now there is mob programming which is pair programming raised to the power of however many people you can throw at it. But does it work? 
Microsoft has open sourced BrowseCloud, an AI-based application that summarizes feedback data via smart word clouds, called counting grids. The application supports creating custom visualizations with your own data set and correlates metadata with topics. 
Siggraph 2019 started today and runs to August 1st. No doubt there will be some interesting things to look at. Here is a preview of what is on offer. 
Recent results have confirmed that the neuron is more than just a single active unit. Its connections do a computation that makes it a two-layer network in its own right. Perhaps the brain is far more capable a machine than we ever imagined. 
LinkedIn has open-sourced its tool for streaming data between systems. Brooklin is described as a distributed service for streaming data in near real-time and at scale. 
Languages are a matter of fashion and style - and I'm not being rude, well perhaps about the fashion part. The point is there are features that fit with a language's style and ethos and there are features that don't. Recently the Go community rejected a little syntactic sugar that could have made error handling much easier. 
Facebook has released a collection of map-editing services and tools called Map with AI. The collection has been developed in conjunction with OpenStreetMap and includes an editor interface, RapiD, which can be used to review, verify, and adjust the map as needed. 
Microsoft has released a new set of SDKs that developers can use to work with Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Event Hubs. The SDKs can be used from Java, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, and .NET.