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Rachel by the Bay

rachelbythebay.com

Popular posts: 128
Total points: 36,485
HN comments: 20,042
Rank: #11 personal

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Systems & Performance 50 Career & Management 46 Software Engineering 27 Networking & Internet 19 Life, Learning & Writing 18 Security & Privacy 14

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1

A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

2021842 points450 comments Databases & Data details

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fork() can fail

2014760 points430 commentscited by 4Systems & Performance details

3

“Just remove the duck” (2013)

2015682 points384 commentscited by 11Career & Management details

4

Remote code execution, git, and OS X

2016616 points370 commentscited by 7Security & Privacy details

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1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856

2016522 points100 comments Math & Algorithms details

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Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything

2018490 points147 comments Software Engineering details

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We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing

2020402 points302 commentscited by 6Software Engineering details

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Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal

2020395 points280 comments Systems & Performance details

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Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

2023375 points137 comments Software Engineering details

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Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks

2023356 points138 comments Systems & Performance details

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You can do a lot with an empty file

2022332 points117 comments Software Engineering details

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Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

2023282 points261 comments Software Engineering details

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One second per second is harder than it sounds

2014225 points123 comments Systems & Performance details

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Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not

2023219 points155 comments Software Engineering details

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Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon

2024213 points164 comments Software Engineering details

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Problems with the heap

2025211 points94 comments Systems & Performance details

17

Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”

2023206 points124 comments Tools & Productivity details

18

The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct

2021188 points99 comments Career & Management details

19

Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere

2021179 points157 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

20

A nice story about Unix processes “infecting” each other

2022164 points42 comments Systems & Performance details

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Don't setenv in multi-threaded code on glibc

2017150 points104 comments Software Engineering details

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Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it

2020146 points145 comments Systems & Performance details

23

File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness

2020134 points72 comments Software Engineering details

24

Spammy syscalls in strace dumps

2023129 points47 comments Systems & Performance details

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Web programs written in C++ are no big deal

2012118 points126 comments Software Engineering details

26

A mystery with memory leaks and a magic number

2016117 points8 commentscited by 5Systems & Performance details

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Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries

2020112 points56 comments Software Engineering details