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The Suicide of Venezuela
I never expected to witness the slow suicide of a country, a civilization. I suppose nobody does. Let me tell you, there’s nothing epic about it. We who have the privilege of travel often look down…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling
📍 This article has moved. Read the current version at This is the third part in a short series of blog posts about quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). The series is derived from an introductory lecture I ga…
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On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
A Go board has 19 × 19 points, each of which can be empty or occupied by black or white, so there are 3 (19 × 19) ≅ 10 172 possible board positions, but "only" about 10 170 of those positions are legal. Here are some of them:
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Rebol vs. Lisp Macros
Author: HostileFork, Title: Rebol vs. Lisp Macros, Date: 19-Apr-2016, Length: 2220 words
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Multithreading in modern C++
With the new C++11 Standard, C++ faces the first time challenges of multicore architectures. The 2011 published standard defines how a C++ program has to behave in the presence of multiple threads. The C++11 multithreading capabilities are composed of two components. This is, on the one hand, the defined memory model…
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What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
A week ago I saw an article on Hacker News titled – What’s awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?. The article was spot on and it got a lot of attention. It also left me feeling…
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UDP for games – encryption and DDoS protection
Quote: Yes, you DO need to encrypt your UDP traffic. And no, using UDP is NOT a valid excuse to skip encryption Another Quote: Personally, I prefer to think ...
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My Favorite Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Five
Hi everyone! Here's part five of my favorite programming, computer and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one, part two, part three and part four. I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so it's been close to 15 years of book research…
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Have Software Developers Given Up?
Over the last month I've had so many 'fails' from (mostly) large companies that my twitter timeline has started to read like failblog. Have we given up?
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Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
I will attempt to convince you, in two lines of code, that Elixir is more interesting than any programming language you’ve ever used.
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“American Scientist” Understands Nothing about the Traveling Salesman Problem
I like to think there are some solid foundations to my life. I will be able to do the Monday New York Times crossword and I will not be able to do the Thursday version. My dental hygienist will not be satisfied with the amount of flossing I do. I will get my favorite spaghetti meal served on my birthday.
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Docker for Mac Beta Review
I finally got access to the Docker For Mac beta. My initial impressions are extremely positive. With Docker packaged so well for end users…
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Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
Location Voiture Electrique à la journée, le week-end ou au mois. Dès 50€/jour. Oubliez les agences de location. Assurance tous risques.
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Dropbox as a Git Server
git-remote-dropbox is now on PyPI!
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Programming blogs
This is one of those “N technical things every programmer must read” lists, except that “programmer” is way too broad a term and the styles of writing people find helpful for them are too different for any such list to contain a non-zero number of items (if you want the entire list to be helpful to everyone). So…
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Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At
You and me, we’re bad at a lot of things. But email isn’t one of those things, no matter how much it seems like it.
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Dissecting a spammer's spam script
Let's dissect a PHP spam script and find out how spammers send spam messages and how they have tried to obfuscate the actual code they use.
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The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010)
When Windows NT was first being developed, one of the goals was to make the kernel separate from the programming interface. NT was originally intended to be the successor to OS/2 but Microsoft also…