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Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (2014)
Turbinia - An Uninvited Guest
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The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced
I promise you this story is true. Many years ago, when I was very young and you were even younger... Work was not going well. Our recently launched product was a flop. Rumours of job cuts were swirling. Things were tense. I was sat in work, headphones on, trying to drown out the sound of the open-plan office. Grinding…
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Fixing a Small Calc.exe Bug
tldr; saw a Windows Calculator bug on reddit . Since calc.exe was open-sourced I thought I’d try to find the bug and fix it. Cloned the code, recreated the bug, and found a minimal fix .
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Go Creeping In
I’ve seen the inside of the Google and Amazon tech stacks. There are common threads that run through them and also, I bet, through most BigTechCos. Here and there down the stack is a lot of C++ and vestigial remnants from earlier days, Perl or PHP or whatever. Out in front of humans, of course, JS. But in between…
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Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (2017)
Do adventure games have dead ends? The author of The Teeny Tiny Mansion proves the absence of dead ends in that game via formal verification (in particular, with the help of the cbmc model-checking program ). Here I’ll demonstrate how to prove the same thing via Markov theory. The Markov approach requires more…
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Classes vs. Data Structures
Or rather, an object is a set of functions that operate on implied data elements.
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Minnesota court decision means doctors can be sued by patients they don't treat
By KIP SULLIVAN (30) On April 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court published an opinion holding that doctors who deny services to patients may be sued even if they did not have a doctor-patient relation…
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FBI agent accidentally reveals own 8chan posts
Updated August 4, 2019: Added link to “A.C.L.U. Says F.B.I. Funded ‘Army’ To Terrorize Young War Dissidents” The unsealing of an application for a search warrant by the federal governme…
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This TRS-80
A first-hand story about the TRS-80 Model 100 and journalism
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In Defence of the Technical Interview
Coding puzzles and their prevalence
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Slack will never replace email
Hello Mr Butterfield,
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People Met in Hotel Lobbies (2017)
Selections from the Washington Post's Gilded Age coverage of notable visitors to the city
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Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
During my final term at UWaterloo I took the CS444 compilers class with a project to write a compiler from a substantial subset of Java to x86, in teams of up to three people with a language of the group’s choice. This was a rare opportunity to compare implementations of large programs that all did the same thing…
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Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s
I was thinking recently that here in the West we take our video game history largely for granted. Look back at the Golden Age of video games, and it’s apparent that we had it pretty good R…
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Uniform Structured Syntax, Metaprogramming and Run-Time Compilation
Real world example where uniform syntax enables unthinkable solution
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Hacking Water
From water insecurity to offgrid, solar pumped, gravity flow 1000 gallons of running water.
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Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem
Okay, folks. This is new territory for me. I'm stepping into the world of.... t h i n k p i e c e s...
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Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)
The Piano Player Confessions I recently received a message from an accomplished piano player. Let’s call him Jeremy. This is someone who majored in piano ... Read more
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