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Culture Fit Interview Questions
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Tethered Jailbreaks Are Back
Earlier today, a new iPhone Boot ROM exploit, checkm8 (or Apollo or Moonshine), was published on GitHub by axi0mX, affecting the iPhone 4S through the iPhone X. The vulnerability was patched in devices with A12 and A13 CPUs. As of this writing, the iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max […]
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New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics
New Nebraska U-led research reports nearly 40% of Americans say politics is stressing them out, and one in five are losing sleep. The study published in PLOS ONE Sept. 25.
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GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge
We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.
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HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make the web faster and more reliable for all.
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An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle
I recently found myself racing to fill out Chipotle’s online order form before my mother could find her credit card. In the process, I discovered a bug that could cost Chipotle $4.4 million annually. My parents are retired. They continue to try to pay for meals. I don’t want them…
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Nim's author on v1 launch: Personal words about version 1
When I started Nim's development I had a small simple language in mind that compiles to C; its implementation should not be more than 20,000 lines of code. The core guideline has always been that Nim should be a small language with a macro system, which should be capable of extending Nim with all the features that the…
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If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
As a rule of thumb business owners should be primarily focused on delighting their customers in any way possible. Every subtle interaction should be closely optimized for customer enchantment, and a decision as simple as where to park your car can subconsciously attract or detract a customer.
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Efficient GraphQL Queries in Ruby on Rails and Postgres
We discuss what N+1 queries are, how they are easily produced in GraphQL, and how to solve them using the graphql-batch gem along with a few custom batch loaders.
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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience.
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WARP is here
Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP+ to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic.
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Drilling open a smart door lock in 4 seconds
The BBC asked us to have a look at some smart locks for a TV show recently. We didn’t have much prep time, but were genuinely shocked by just how easy this one was to compromise. Usually, we spend time looking at Bluetooth/RF, the mobile app, the API and then move on to hardware. This […]
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Performance metrics for web apps
Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
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Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth…
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ReactOS 0.4.12
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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CentOS Stream
Today, Red Hat has introduced a new Linux development model into the CentOS community: CentOS Stream, a developer-forward, faster-moving distribution that helps community members, partners and others take full advantage of open innovation.
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How to Cold Email Investors [video]
Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel [https://twitter.com/mwseibel] on how to cold email investors. Topics 00:00 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=0s] – Intro 00:17 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=17s] – Make it short, i.e. 60 seconds or less to read 00:58 [https://youtu.be/A3MmYbH1hbs?t=58s] – Interested in: the…
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Comparing Database Types
Many types of databases exist, each with their own benefits. In this guide, we compare the different types of databases and what each of them offer.
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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.
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.NET Core gRPC
The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core. We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! How to get it? grpc-dotnet packages have just been released to…
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Crystal 0.31
Crystal 0.31.0 has been released!
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Nim 1.0
The Nim Team is very proud and happy to announce the much-anticipated version 1.0 of the language.
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.NET Core 3.0
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more…
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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.
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Update from Chef
IT Automation for everything from configuration management to continuous delivery.