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Joe Damato

timetobleed.com

Popular posts: 13
Total points: 1,270
HN comments: 333
Rank: #1,569 personal

Visit timetobleed.com → On Hacker News Apr 2009 – Jul 2011

Systems & Performance 9 Software Engineering 9 Security & Privacy 4 Tools & Productivity 2 Databases & Data 1

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1

American Express fails miserably at basic security

2010252 points69 comments Security & Privacy details

2

The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV

2011149 points65 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

3

An obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes

2010132 points28 comments Systems & Performance details

4

6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec

2009107 points35 comments Systems & Performance details

5

Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap

201099 points27 comments Software Engineering details

6

EventMachine: scalable non-blocking i/o in ruby

201082 points37 comments Software Engineering details

7

Detailed explanation of a recent privilege escalation bug in Linux

201075 points8 comments Security & Privacy details

8

Memprof: A Ruby level memory profiler

200970 points3 comments Software Engineering details

9

Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Destroy You

200969 points16 comments Software Engineering details

10

MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD

200963 points12 comments Systems & Performance details

11

Extending ltrace to make your Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP apps faster

200961 points8 comments Software Engineering details

12

Fix a bug in Ruby’s configure.in and get a ~30% performance boost

200960 points11 comments Software Engineering details

13

Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost

200951 points14 comments Software Engineering details