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Is Software Engineering Possible?
When the textile industry arose in the 18th century, craft was the norm in manufacturing. As the industrial revolution progressed, one after another sector of the economy made the transition from c…
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A Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed history
This article has previously been published in Norwegian in Aftenposten Historie no. 6, 2015 and Biolog no, 1, 2014. Due to several reques...
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Neural Translation of Musical Style
Can we teach a neural network to perform like a human?
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Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
You can use of UUIDs as the primary key to avoid database scale problems. But should you? I propose an alternative.
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Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
Update2: Stripe sent an update and it sounds like Coinbase will credit the BTC to my Coinbase account soon:
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Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.
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A theory of modern Golang
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
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Reading OpenBSD source code daily
I made a new years resolution to read at least one C source file from OpenBSD daily.The goal was to both get better at C and to contribute more to the base s...
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Can you figure out how this single part boost converter works?
If you think this is easy, then I think you are missing something. This is hard. You need to know your hardware intimately to figure this one out.
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How Torch broke ls and made me vulnerable
If used incorrectly, LD_LIBRARY_PATH can cause a plethora of issues
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Working with time in Postgres
A massive amount of reporting queries, whether really intensive data analysis, or just basic insights into your business involving looking at data over a certain time period. Postgres has really rich support for dealing with time out of the box, something that’s often very underweighted when dealing with a database…
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Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
A review of Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
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Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis
In May, some friends and I built Tagger News, a real-time automatic classifier of Hacker News articles based on their text (see here for more about how we built it). This process started me down some interesting paths, particularly analyzing trends in titles. By finding words that became more or less common in Hacker…
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Rust Performance Pitfalls
Overall, Rust is pretty good for performance. Write the most simple, naive stuff, and it will usually run within a factor of two from optimized C/C++ code, without any further performance work on the code. With some investment into optimizations, matching or exceeding C’s speed should be possible in most cases…
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A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD
A map of the roads of ancient Rome, in the style of a transit diagram.
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Software Companies Tech Competency Matrix
In this post I will unfold my understanding of what makes a tech team competent in 4 levels with 6 main criteria and 25 sub criteria.
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Getting started with the F# and .Net ecosystem
PAKBOLA88 hadir sebagai situs sepakbola pilihan dengan informasi pertandingan terkini serta peluang odds menarik untuk menemani aktivitas sepakbola Anda setiap hari.
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Reducers, transducers and core.async in Clojure
This is a whirlwind tour of some of the cool new features that appeared in Clojure in the past few years. I find it fascinating how one good idea (reducers) morphed into another (transducers), and ended up mating with yet another, apparently unrelated concept (concurrent pipelines) to produce some really powerful…
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Set up a malware analysis lab with VirtualBox, INetSim and Burp
In this post we will set up a virtual lab for malware analysis. We’ll create an isolated virtual network separated from the host OS and from the Internet, in which we’ll setup two victim virtual machines (Ubuntu and Windows 7) as well as an analysis server to mimic common Internet services like HTTP or DNS. Then…
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Options vs. Cash
I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Snapchat. One thing I don’t understand about this claim is, if the claim is true, why shouldn’t the startup go to an investor, sell their options for…
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Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
I stumble upon eigenvectors and eigenvalues regularly when reading about machine learning topics. They seem to be important. They are not introduced in those...
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APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unicode normalisation issues
APFS is not currently safe to use with names which might have Unicode normalisation issues – which means it is only safe with a limited ASCII character set.
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Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
If you run a small SaaS business, you need a recurring billing solution, and there are a lot of options out there. There’s Chargify (from $149/month), Chargebee (from $99/month), Recurly (from $99/month), MoonClerk (from $15/month), etc. All of these platforms have features beyond recurring payments, which increases…
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Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor ...