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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's quite likely that during their lifetime, machine learning will completely change the nature of programming. The programming languages they are now using will seem as quaint as Cobol, and the coding skills they are learning will be of little use.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

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Scala for the Python Geeks

Abhishek Tiwari

Scala is a JVM languages designed by Martin Odersky in early 2001 and it brings features of object-oriented programming and functional programming together. Scala is competing again several new JVM languages including but not limited to Groovy, Clojure, JRuby and Jython.

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World’s youngest C++ programmer?

Sutter's Mill

The precocious youngster was programming game emulators from the age of four and his achievements have already received extensive media coverage in his home country. He has also gained knowledge of C++, the programming language developed by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup, without any formal training.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. Status checks are small programs to lint, run tests, or anything else you’d like to measure. Online, and live.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Karypis, J.

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