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5 ways to motivate technical employees

These five leadership tips can help anyone motivate employees to do their best work.

How to speed up your MySQL queries 300 times

Before you can profile slow queries, you need to find them. MySQL has a built-in slow query log. To use it, open the my.cnf file and set the slow_query_log variable to "On."…

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How to deal with leaving an open source project

Leaving an open source project differs from regular job turnover.

How to draw primitive shapes with BRL-CAD

Primitive shapes can be used for geometric modeling of more complex shapes.

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Solving the cross-platform emoji problem

Emojificiate is a server-side implementation of web-accessible emoji written in Python.

What's holding your conference back

In 2006, the United Nations passed the Convention on the Rights of the Disabled. Now signed by over 160 countries, the Convention calls for disabled persons to be able to live…

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