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Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous
I am a software engineer based out of Seattle, WA
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,981 posts.
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Recovering deleted files using only grep
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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A Cover Letter in Brainfuck
Warning: another technical post.I wrote this cover letter many years ago, when I wanted to get accepted to the Matzov unit of the Israeli Defense Force (in Israeli, every male is conscripted…
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Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034
This should be titled Keynote talk for YAPC::NA 2014 . What's up with the title?
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The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted
A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last summer has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of trafficking in stolen credit card accounts, among other things, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned.
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Improved default settings for Linux machines
A quick overview of Linux settings I change on almost every machine I manage.
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Every C99.php shell is backdoored
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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The Entrepreneur Who Captivated Me
On January 12th, 2012 I went to Airbnb to give a talk about Storm at their tech talk series. It wa...
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Doom on ZPU
The last few days I spend some time on porting the beloved game DOOM to the ZPU CPU. For you who don't know what I am talking about, DOOM wa...
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Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
Lotus is a complete web framework for Ruby with a strong emphasis on object oriented design and testability. If you use it, you employ less DSLs and more objects, zero monkey-patching, separation of concerns between MVC layers. Each library is designed to be small, fast and testable.
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A beginner's guide to funemployment
I recently stopped working for 5 months, and aside from writing a few blog posts and getting to Gold League in Starcraft, I achieved very little. It was wonderful.
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Put Yourself Out There: The Myth of the Genius Programmer
A year ago I decided to put myself out there and face my fear of being vulnerable by starting a blog. I look at what has happened since then and how great of an experience it has been.
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Inside the Mirrortocracy
There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Fixing it will be painful. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists. But I believe it should be fixed before it…
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Live Google transit directions change the value of transit
On my recent wanderings in Europe, I became quite enamoured by Google's latest revision of transit directions. Google has had transit directions for some time, but they have recently improved them, and linked them in more cities to live data about where transit vehicles actually are. The result not a mere incremental…
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Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower
Mark Twain:There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. If this is true of all science, it is doubly true o…
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The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (2012)
If there is one highly underrated concept in philosophy today, it is computation . Why is it so important? Because computationalism is t...
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Butchering HQX pixel art scaling filters
The HQX filters , namely hq2x, hq3x and hq4x, are well-known pixel art scalers. They are mainly used by old console (such as NES) emulators to provide a smooth rendering of the games. It was developed around 2003 by Maxim Stepin.
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Eigenmorality
This post is about an idea I had around 1997, when I was 16 years old and a freshman computer-science major at Cornell. Back then, I was extremely impressed by a research project called CLEVER, wh…
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Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014
A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot a few of them down before they’re…
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Finding Compiler Bugs by Removing Dead Code
What has caused you to slack off on the bug reporting? The cost of computer time or the human effort side? (I’m guessing the second.)
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Boring SSL
Earlier this year, before Apple had too many goto fails and GnuTLS had too few , before everyone learnt that TLS heart-beat messages were a thing and that some bugs are really old , I started a tidy up of the OpenSSL code that we use at Google.