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    Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin

    Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to...

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    Magical Thinking: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (2011)

    I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. —Ray Bradbury, 1992

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    The Engineering of Wildlife Crossings

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    Efficient German Language Learning: Is Anki the Answer?

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