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Python Language Features and Tricks
A list of Python tips and tricks. See how many of them you already know.
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Google+ names policy discriminates against American Native Indians
I find it absurd that Google+ doesn't recognize certain names. The latest outrage was when they rejected Elaine Yellow Horse . It was only a...
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Myths about /dev/urandom
Randomness, entropy, and the Linux kernel.
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Yes, The CIA Spied On Congress
Why? The torture report, of course: Late last night, McClatchy reported that the CIA inspector general has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the CIA illegally monitored C…
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2,000 NHS Security Vulnerabilities Disclosed
This is part 3 of a series of blog posts looking at the security of the UK Government's web infrastructure. Britain's National Health Service is riddled with old and insecure WordPress-based websites. Many of these sites have severe flaws including being vulnerable to XSS attacks. There is absolutely no suggestion…
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The Best Tools for UI Hacking (not jsFiddle)
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Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned
Last year, I shared our story of applying, our application, and some advice on the YC application. Now that the Winter batch is in full swing and the application is open for the summer, I thought I...
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BioShock Infinite Lighting
Programmers don't generally have reels, but we do have blogs. I've been explaining the rendering work I did on BioShock Infinite quite a b...
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What is a Web Framework?
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Unyielding
Be as the reed, not the oak tree. Green threads are just threads.
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Goodbye Academia
I have enjoyed research and teaching for the last twelve years. Yet, I have resigned from my postdoctoral position at MIT a week ago, givin...
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Help me distribute $100,000 to new entrepreneurs in Africa
I love the idea of microlending, small loans of a few hundred dollars made to entrepreneurs in impoverished areas so that they can start or...
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Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible
Let’s say you have a brand-new Windows laptop and you’re just oh, so happy. You’re pretty sure the NSA did not interdict it during shipment , and thus that it comes only with the flaky goatware Microsoft, Lenovo, and any number of Lenovo’s business partners intended for it to have. Now all you need is an SSH client so…
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Dear Google, am I pregnant?
Here in the UK, we are a signatory to the European Convention of Human Rights, which among other things includes an explicit right to privacy (considerably stronger than the implicit privacy rights acknowledged in the US, which are not enumerated directly by the US constitution).
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The programming error that cost Mt. Gox 2609 Bitcoins
In October 2011, Mt Gox lost over 2609 bitcoins by accidentally creating transactions that can never be redeemed. (At the time, 2609 bitcoin...
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The myth of the fall
I was a historian before I was an activist, and I’ve been reminded recently that a lot of younger hackers have a simplified and somewhat mythologized view of how our culture evolved, one which tends to back-project today’s conditions onto the past.
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New partition function record: p(10^20) computed
The partition function p ( n ) counts the number of partitions of n , i.e. the number of ways n can be written as a sum of positive integers when disregarding the order of the terms. For example, 4 has the five distinct partitions 4, 3+1, 2+2, 2+1+1, 1+1+1+1, so p (4) = 5. This week, I set a new record by computing…
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Laying Out iOS UIs in Code
Software Engineer in New York specializing in Apple platforms