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Supreme Commander – Graphics Study
Total Annihilation has a special place in my heart since it was the very first RTS I played; it was with Command & Conquer and …
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 646 posts.
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Apple and IPv6 – Happy Eyeballs
Search IETF mail list archives
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Why are interest rates so low?
Ben Bernanke says that low interest rates are not a short-term aberration, but part of a long-term trend and explains the rationale behind the Federal Reserve's continued policies.
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A Path to Enlightenment in Programming Language Theory
Learning about Programming Language Theory can be a tough journey, particularly for programming practitioners who haven’t studied it formally. This resource is here to help. Please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for improvement.
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Running Rust on the Rumprun Unikernel
The Rust programming language has been able to run on bare-metal without the standard library for quite some while now. However, most Rust applications depend on the std crate, and therefore still need a full operating system to run.
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System design implications of declining network latency vs. disk latency
Hardware performance “obviously” affects software performance and affects how software is optimized. For example, the fact that caches are multiple orders of magnitude faster than RAM means that blocked array accesses give better performance than repeatedly striding through an array.
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What makes Nim practical?
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
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Computer Science by Mail
Hypothetically, how would you teach Computer Science or programming to someone who has no access to a computer, and with whom your only communication is books and postal mail?
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Moving all your data, 9TB edition
At GitLab B.V. we are working on an infrastructure upgrade to give more CPU power and storage space to GitLab.com. Learn more here!
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Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study
This article documents Hacking Team’s third-party acquisition of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities and exploits. The recent compromise of Hacking Team’s email archive offers one of the first public case studies of the market for 0days. Because of its secretive nature, this market has been the source of endless debates…
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Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (2009)
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research At Microsoft Research, there are computer scientists and mathematicians who live in a world of theory and abstractions. Then there is Nachi Nagappan, who was on loan to the Windows development group for a year while building a triage system for software bugs. For Nagappan, a…
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Playing Fasttracker2 .XM files in JavaScript
Hit the play button above and it will play music; specifically, music composed with (or at least, compatible with) a program released in 1994 called FastTracker 2; this is a Javascript homage I wrote in a fit of nostalgia. The source code is on GitHub if you'd like to check it out.
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What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?
[ Update : this post has been updated with significant new information. Look to the end.]
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The Next Feature Fallacy
A few weeks ago, I read this tweet, and found myself nodding my head in vigorous agreement.
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Implement a programming language from scratch
Implementing a programming language is an experience no programmer should go without; the process fosters a deep understanding of computation, and it's fun!
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard
My last post documented my initial exposure to the wild world of custom keyboards and the numerous ways it's possible to improve on the conventional design. As I dug deeper into the topic, I was struck with the simplicity of the underlying concepts. While the Ergodox is a notable and admirable achievement of…
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Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness
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Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 1
Out for a walk one day, a woman came across a construction site and saw three men working. She asked the first man, “What are you doing?” Annoyed by the question, the first man barked, “Can’t you see that I’m laying bricks?” Not satisfied with the answer, she …
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Homemade synthetic aperture radar
Second version of the 6 GHz FMCW radar now with SAR images
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Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
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The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt (2014)
In 1999, America Online's volunteer chat room monitors sued the company for back wages. Do today's hot Internet companies risk the same fate?
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AEADs: getting better at symmetric cryptography
I gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at the Yahoo Unconference . The conference was at the end of a particually hard week for a bunch of reasons and I fear that the talk wasn't that great. (Afterwards I got home about 3pm and pretty much slept until the following morning.) This post is a, hopefully clearer…
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Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer
There is a classic thought experiment in the field of artificial intelligence which is often used to explain how an AI might inadvertently cause the destruction of humanity as a by-product of tryin…
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Considering performance in the small is not “premature optimization”
DISCLAIMER : The following are my own personal opinions and are not shared, sanctioned or endorsed by anybody in particular, especially my employer. Any criticisms expressed herein are of a general nature and are neither inspired by nor directed at any person, entity, or product in particular. Links to other online…