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Cassandra on RocksDB can improve the performance of Apache Cassandra significantly (3–4 times faster in general, 100 times faster in some use-cases). [citation needed] The Instagram team at Facebook developed and open-sourced their code, along with benchmarks of their performance results.
Roblox (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ⓘ, ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. It was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004, and released to the public in 2006. As of August 2020, the platform has ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
George's Secret Key to the Universe is a 2007 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard.Upon its release, the book received mixed reviews, and was followed by five sequels, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011, George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014 and George and the Blue Moon in 2016 and George and the Ship of Time [] in 2018.
The game is considered a classic among the Roblox userbase, due to it being one of the oldest still-popular games on the platform—first released on November 3, 2007 [119] —with the creator attributing its success to the game's ability to encourage socializing. [66] The game has received praise for its driving mechanics. [68]
George and the Unbreakable Code is a 2014 children's book written by Stephen and Lucy Hawking. The book is the fourth book in the George series, following George's Secret Key to the Universe , George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt , and George and the Big Bang , and preceding George and the Blue Moon .
George and the Blue Moon is a 2016 children's book written by Lucy and Stephen Hawking with Christophe Galfard. The book was preceded by George's Secret Key to the Universe in 2007, George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt in 2009, George and the Big Bang in 2011 and George and the Unbreakable Code in 2014. [1] The book was aimed at readers aged 8+years. [2]
The word cryptex is a neologism coined by the author Dan Brown for his 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code, denoting a portable vault used to hide secret messages. It is a word formed from Greek κρυπτός kryptós , "hidden, secret" and Latin codex ; "an apt title for this device" since it uses "the science of cryptology to protect information ...