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In 1991 Guido van Rossum released the first version of the Python programming language. About that time the world began to witness a major change...

Forcing the user to choosing a username is a terrible user experience. No one wants to use an online service that forces a name you don't like.

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#ThrowbackThursday It's safe to say many of us don't know much about what lies beyond the standard QWERTY keyboard. Well, there's so much more. Let's take a look at some popular and regional keyboard layouts.

In this article, we look at why a global approach to NLP is so important for the future of machine learning.

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If you are here for the first time and looking to start from scratch. Here's the order I have learned about Algorithms. To properly learn…

How to learn Japanese: start with the kana

A bygone relic of an old computing era? Or a productivity must? We dive in.

Hundreds of special characters, from accent marks to tiny icons, are a few clicks away.

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A curated list of delightful Unicode tidbits, packages and resources. Foreword Unicode is Awesome! Prior to Unicode, international communication was grueling- everyone had defined their separate extended character set in the upperhalf of ASCII (called Code Pages) that would conflict- Just think, German speakers coordinating with Korean speakers over which 127 character Code Page to use. Thankfully the Unicode…

How I halved my typing speed in one day with this one simple hack.

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You heard that right. \, the backslash character, has no basis in any historical punctuation: computer scientist Bob Bemer added it to Ascii, the original text encoding standard for computers and whence "Ascii art", in 11961. The backslash was intended so that the symbols ∧ and ∨, used in the Algol programming language to represent "and" and "or" respectively, could be represented in Ascii as /\ and \/, saving…

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