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My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie
One of the first things I do every morning is check the Twitter chatter about my website ( @SecurityTube ) . I was pleasantly surprised to ...
Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London
(NB: this was very hastily written, so I hope the logic flows – I just wanted to get it out…) I think many people thought I was joking when I boldly declared it would be cheaper for me to rent a tw…
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
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WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
The news has just come out that Opera is switching all of their browsers (both mobile and desktop) to use WebKit (specifically, Chromium). I’ve seen a lot of gnashing of teeth on Twitter and I feel like I can respond because I use to feel the same way back in 2008-2009. However this is 2013 and the Chrome/Chromium…
How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
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Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow
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How Software Companies Die (1995)
Home Page for Charles Rosenberg
Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption
WhatsApp has been plagued by numerous issues in their security: easily stolen passwords, unencrypted messages and even a website that can change anyone’s status. But that streak is not yet over.
How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)
I was talking with a friend the other day about that perennial subject of conversation in the Valley, Google. And finally she gave me the clue that made the whole place make sense. “It’s about infantilizing people,” she explained. “Give them free food, do their laundry, let them sit on bouncy brightly-colored balls…
How to build great products
If you believe that sales fix everything, it follows that most startups fail because they don’t ship a great product in a growing market before they run out of money. Assuming you’ve picked an explosive market, how do you go about building a great product?1
Today I saw the future
Mozilla and OTOY deliver the power of native PC applications to the Web, unveil next generation JavaScript video codec for movies and cloud gaming
The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
Marketo filed for IPO. They have $60m in revenues and a nice growth rate; unfortunately they're *losing* $35m/year. Why do SaaS business fall into the trap of being forever unprofitable, and what is the secret to the ones who overcome this trap?
A rich new JavaScript code editor spreading to several Microsoft web sites
I noticed yesterday that some C#, JavaScript and CSS files I had sitting in ...
Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js . Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced ( mirror ) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.js – and that it ran…
Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies
Mozilla has a long running interest in fostering greater transparency, trust and accountability related to privacy and the many cookie-based practices we see today. On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox ...
Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
Updated 2011 by Steve Carlip, and 1998 by Steve Carlip, Matthew Wiener and Geoffrey Landis. Original by Steve Carlip.
Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
How phone batteries measure the weather
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