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Metaclasses: Thoughts on generative C++
I’ve been working on an experimental new C++ language feature tentatively called “metaclasses” that aims to make C++ programming both more powerful and simpler. You can find out about it here: Curr…
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What is Windows doing while hogging that lock?
Earlier this month I wrote about how Windows 10 holds a lock during too much of process destruction, which both serializes this task and causes mouse-cursor hitches and UI hangs (because the same l…
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Kerbal Space Oddities
This was my first successful craft, which lifted off, flew a short distance from the pad, then (after several botched attempts and the deaths of several Kerbal pilots) touched down.
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Successful Solo Founders
Note* Since publishing this, a research study came out by MIT with more information and data on this. See 2 founders are not always better…
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How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey & Duo Mobile make for great usable security. A travel Chromebook for modern development, online and offline.
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JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover
There are striking similarities between Microsoft today and IBM in the Lou Gerstner era, but today’s IBM should be a warning to Redmond.
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Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
In the beginning, things were simple: you had two strings (a username and a password) and if someone knew both of them, they could log in. Easy. But the ecosystem in which they were used was simple too, for example in MIT's Time-Sharing Computer [https://www.wired.com/
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Why I’m Learning Perl 6
Nothing! Just kidding, you’ll see a lot of distressed messages from tasks that passed out wait for the phone to ring, and woke up wearing someone else’s OS thread. 1
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Docker operations slowing down on AWS
I’m CC’d on mails when things get slow, but never when things work as expected or are fast…oh well. Like an umpire in baseball, if we are doing our jobs, we are invisible. Subjec…
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Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (2011)
One of life's minor annoyances is having to wait on my devices to connect to the network after I wake them from sleep. All too often, I'll open the lid on my …
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How to create a private Ethereum network
Omar Metwally, MD University of California, San Francisco DDASH – Ethereum Operating System for Knowledge Creation and Sharing ============================================= Github repo…
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A Guide to Synthesizing Adversarial Examples
Synthesizing adversarial examples for neural networks is surprisingly easy.
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The Road to Superintelligence (2015)
Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
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The future of latency profiling in Go
The roadmap for latency profiling in Go
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Fire And Motion (2002)
Sometimes I just can’t get anything done. Sure, I come into the office, putter around, check my email every ten seconds, read the web, even do a few brainless tasks like paying the American E…
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Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices
I'm trying to learn ways to minimize my reliance upon large companies for handling my day-to-day personal data. So I figured calendar and contacts should be on my list of things to self-host. This post is about how I migrated all my Google calendars and phone contacts to my own server without losing any features...
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Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
Postgres Explain Visualizer (Pev) is a tool I wrote to make EXPLAIN output easier to grok. It creates a graphical representation of the query plan.
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