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Google search is in the news. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google search is a monopoly and is behaving in a manner that suppresses search competition with their distribution agreements. The debate on this has started,...
The future of online media
Articles about PaintCode's new features, interviews, application development topics.
While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links.We un…
It’s been nearly two and half years since I was an active contributor to the Rust project. There are some releases that I’ve been very excited about since then, and I’m heartened by Niko’s recent blog post emphasizing stability and polish over grand new projects. But I’ve also felt a certain apprehension at a lot of…
Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.
tl;dr: In August 2017, I reported a vulnerability to Panera Bread that allowed the full name, home address, email address, food/dietary…
In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, ...
This PIR is available in the following languages:日本語 Letter from our co-founders & co-CEOs We want to acknowledge the outage that disrupted service for customers earlier this month. We understand that our products are mission critical to your business, and we don’t take that responsibility lightly. The buck stops with…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
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…
Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.
Update: I originally quoted the average price of office space as $36 / square foot / month, where ...
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
Random thoughts
We’re rolling out NotebookLM, an experimental offering from Google Labs to summarize information, complex ideas and brainstorm new connections.
LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level…
A couple of days ago I watched a How Computers Learn talk by Peter Norvig. In this talk, Peter talked about how Google did machine learning and at one point he mentioned that at Google they also applied machine learning to hiring. He said that one thing that was surprising to him was that being a winner at…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Explaining Ethereum's consensus mechanism after The Merge
