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Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (2015)
Outlook.com and hotmail.com is silently discarding email messages from our SMTP server.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Don't ignore the janitor
The importance of seeing, smiling and talking to people
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Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
It's never been easier to self-host your email. It's never been harder to self host your email.
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Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It’s not going to be a simple Copy/Paste to run your own mail server. You have been warned.
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Unreal Rust
A few months ago I asked myself "What if I could write a game in Rust, but use Unreal as a renderer?". After a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that exposing the Unreal renderer to Rust via C ffi was way more work than I was willing to do. But what if I could just build on top of Unreal instead? I could just…
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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
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Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview
Question : Do developers in your organization have full admin rights on their own computer? Rationale : While blocking admin rights might ma...
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Reviving the Pakon film scanner
Introduction
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The Trouble with 5G
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week
…and why I think it'll work for everyone
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On Device Learning
Before asking the question, how do I build AGI, you first must ask the question, what would I recognize as AGI?
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Thunderbolt, Displayport and Docks
Blog post — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks
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Biomanufactured materials are coming
And they hint at a future with vastly better products
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The IKEA Effect – Why managers fall in love with their own ideas
When and why the IKEA effect causes people to overvalue their own ideas. Examples of organisational pitfalls of the IKEA effect. 4 ways you can defend against the IKEA effect: 1) Acknowledge your unconscious bias; 2) Spike rough prototypes; 3) Talk to customers; 4) Run growth experiments
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The Timeless Way of Programming
What can software learn from Christopher Alexander? Many programmers know that the idea of design patterns comes from architecture, but Christopher Alexander's writing has much more for us than just the Gang of Four design patterns. This post is a somewhat assorted collection of ideas for better software and…
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A Short Chronology of Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Occasionally, I share research papers proposing new deep learning approaches for tabular data on social media, which is typically an excellent discussion…
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Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?
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Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM
Constant Meiring - Technology Product Builder
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Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
In 1995 Netscape partnered with Sun Microsystems to create interactive websites . Famously Brendan Eich spent only 10 days to create the first version of JavaScript - a dynamic programming language with a roughly syntactic lineage from Sun’s Java language. As a result of this partnership Sun held the trademark…
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I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.
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Less is more agile
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room…
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A small Stripe fraud story
A story post about the time a Stripe account I used years ago had thousands of pounds worth of unexpected payments flood in.
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The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
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From Prison to Programming
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that's all…
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Science is political, and that's a bad thing
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
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Why have I never heard of the Ene-Farm? (2017)
While reading up on architecture in Japan recently, I came across a technology that I hadn’t heard of before: the Ene-Farm. It’s a domestic energy system that is being used in Japan and…
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My Contribution to Markdown
At long last revealed.