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Here's a teaser that poses a practical problem - one that crops up in everyday Python programming. See if you can work out the answer before looking at its solution and the pattern to follow to avoid it. The question in this case is where did the global variable go? 
Scheduling is complicated and generally it is assumed that Linux can't do realtime scheduling but now there is deadline scheduling which solves many problems. This extract is from my book on using C in an IoT context.
of extinction. VBScript is one of the variations Microsoft created of the original VB. Now it has decided to drop default support in Internet Explorer. Clearly VBScript is on its way out. 
The developers of DeepCode, a code review tool that uses AI techniques, have announced extra funding and a free tier for small teams and educational use. 
The focus of the 2019 GitLab Developer Survey was DevOps. It attracted responses from over 4,000 software professionals across various industries, roles, and geographic locations and here are some of its findings. 
There's a new release of React with improvements including an asynchronous testing utility, a programmatic profiler, and an updated roadmap.
The University of London now offers a fully online Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science on the Coursera Platform.The applications deadline for the October 2019 intake is September 2nd. Enrollment is also open for several online Master's Degrees. 
The latest update of V8, Google's JavaScript engine, has been released in beta prior to its final release in coordination with Chrome 76 Stable in several weeks. This version, 7.6, speeds up JSON parsing and adds support for native stack walking. 
A bike that follows you around? Sounds good and it's not just self-driving it is also self-balancing. Can spiking neuromorphic networks be the future? Researchers in China seem to think so. 
Taking high frame rate video is both fun and often useful, but a video camera that can do the job is very expensive. A small project involving a Raspberry Pi and its $6 camera has produced reasonably good quality video at 660fps. Take a look. 
Hard on the heels of the announcement that MSDN is giving up publishing on paper or online, we have the news that Linux Journal is going the same way - but in this case it isn't even clear that the online presence will be maintained. 
Amazon has announced PartiQL, a SQL compatible query language designed to let you query data no matter what database it's stored in. A reference implementation of the language has been open sourced. 
HackerRank has released rankings that identify which universities around the world have students with the strongest key developer skills. The rankings reveal that the best student developers attend universities that emphasize practical skills, and that student performance doesn’t always align with university reputation. 
SCADE, the cross platform Swift compiler that can be used to develop native apps for both ARM and X86 Android platforms, has been updated to Swift 5.