Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince you to switch. Java continues its fast and feature-packed release schedule, ...

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Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...

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In the world of showing off, there is alongside ‘Does it play Doom?’ that other classic of ‘Does it play Bad Apple?’. Whereas either would be quaint in the context of the Vim editor, this didn’t deter ...

A known-plaintext attack (KPA) occurs when a hacker uses pairs of both encrypted and unencrypted data to figure out the encryption algorithm or key. In this attack, the hacker has access to both the ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...

Compassionate care is a person-centered approach to delivering healthcare. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and support, which can help improve health outcomes. Compassionate care is a holistic ...