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The Secret Button
There's a secret button hidden in Windows 7. At least, it's a secret to some people. Many modern users won't know about it, whereas some like me have used it every day for over 25 years.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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Grokking Deep Learning
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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My Letter to the Tor Project
N ow I a fourfold vision see A nd a fourfold vision is given to me T is fourfold in my supreme delight A nd three fold in soft Beulahs night A nd twofold Always. May God us keep F rom Single vision & Newtons sleep. — W illiam B lake
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Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees
Yesterday all of us who work for NVIDIA got an email from our flamboyant CEO Jensen Huang. With some really quite startling positive changes to employee benefits for maternity and parental leave af…
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Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel
Getting new people into OSS projects is always a challenge. The Linux kernel is no different and has it’s own set of challenges. This is a follow up and expansion of some of what I talked about at Flock about contributing to the kernel.
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Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
Go 1.7—out today!—features an new SSA-based compiler backend. SSA is a method of describing low-level operations like loads and stores that roughly map to machine instructions, with the special difference that SSA acts as though it has infinite number...
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This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
With only three more years of savings, you can finally afford that two-bedroom condo
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Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
Many of my students have been asking questions lately about how to do technical interviews, so I've decided to write about my interviewing experiences. I will start by giving a number of anecdotes because they're interesting to everyone, but the later parts of this post are mainly targeted at prospective students who…
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Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands
By using a combination of curl, grep, cut, sort, uniq and other common bash utilities it is possible to extract structured data from Wikipedia and compute insights without writing a full program.
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Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
AVFoundation, the low-level audio/video framework in iOS and macOS, does not accurately seek within VBR MP3s, making VBR impractical to use for long files such as podcasts. Jumping to a timestamp in an hour-long VBR podcast can result in an error of over a minute, without the listener even knowing because the…
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Tyre – Typed regular expressions
I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.
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JetBrains IDE Remote Code Execution and Local File Disclosure
TL;DR From at least 2013 until May 2016 JetBrains' IDEs were vulnerable to local file leakage, with the Windows (EDIT: and OS X) versions …
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A Container Is a Function Call
There’s something missing from the Docker ecosystem: a type-checker.
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The Four Flaws of Haskell
Summary: Last year I made a list of four flaws with Haskell. Most have improved significantly over the last year. No language/compiler ecosy...
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Python packaging is good now
setup.py is your friend. It’s real sorry about what happened last time.
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Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People
The time has come that I must speak out against the inappropriate rhetoric used by those who (ostensibly) advocate for FLOSS usage in automotive applications.
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135M messages a second between processes in Java (2013)
Taking a lock free queue off heap and using it as an IPC mechanism to deliver 135M messages a second between processes in Java.
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How I got tech support scammers infected with Locky
There’s been this debate for a while now, about AI being either the greatest or the worst or maybe the least interesting thing to happen to humanity so far. I have to say I’m not 100% sure where I land on this one myself. AI has empowered me to do things I had been putting off forever, multiplied my productivity and…
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The Beauty of Roots (2011)
Around 2006, my friend Dan Christensen created a fascinating picture of all the roots of all polynomials of degree ≤ 5 with integer coefficients ranging from -4 to 4: