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A better introduction to Objective-C
Khám phá những chuyển động mới nhất của thể thao thế giới với tin tức, sự kiện, giải đấu, màn trình diễn ấn tượng và câu chuyện nổi bật từ nhiều bộ môn hấp dẫn.
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User experience design for APIs
Writing code is rarely just a private affair between you and your computer. Code is not just meant for machines; it has human users. It is meant to be read by people, used by other developers, maintained and built upon. Developers who produce better code, in greater quantity, when they are kept happy and productive…
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)
7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected.
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignm…
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Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (2013)
Research based at Princeton University found that poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life.
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Crafting Interpreters
We’ll spend the rest of this book illuminating every dark and sundry corner of the Lox language, but it seems cruel to have you immediately start grinding out code for the interpreter without at least a glimpse of what we’re going to end up with.
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The Little C Function From Hell
Does the standard say whether or not “char” is “unsigned char” or “signed char”? (I guess not from what you wrote above.)
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Do the Real Thing
Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead.
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SQLite 3.33
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF)
Over a year ago siguza published a write-up about Apple’s APRR - a custom ARM extension that redefines pagetable permissions and protects certain parts of the kernel from itself. Since then Apple has released their M1 chip which not only features an updated version of APRR but also easily allows to run bare-metal code…
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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
I think there’s something messed up about the startup culture in the USA. The belief is that you have to work 6-7 days a week and spend all your mental cycles on your company. Nothing but pledging your soul to your startup yields success, right?
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The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
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SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance
This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.
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A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…
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Tracking One Year of Malicious Tor Exit Relay Activities (Part II)
>25% of the Tor network’s exit capacity has been attacking Tor users
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uBlock, I exfiltrate: exploiting ad blockers with CSS
Ad blockers like uBlock Origin are extremely popular, and typically have access to every page a user visits. Behind the scenes, they're powered by community-provided filter lists - CSS selectors that
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I can’t believe that I can prove that it can sort
When an enthusiastic Ada programmer and a SPARK expert pair up to prove the most "stupid" sorting algorithm, lessons are learned! Join us in this…
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Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows
Beginning with Windows Insiders builds this Summer, we will include an in-house custom-built Linux kernel to underpin the newest version of the Windows
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Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software
For the first time since Fog Creek Software was founded more than sixteen years ago, we have a new CEO, Anil Dash.
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails
There was a Simpsons episode, I can’t recall correctly, but I think Bart recorded Lisa when her heart broke and he watched it in slow motion to stop exactly at that point. I thought of this e…
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NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
In 1983, the PX-1000 pocket telex used DES encryption. But with help of Philips, the NSA managed to replace DES with an alternative (weaker) algorithm that they could break. That NSA algorithm is now broken.
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.