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David J.C. MacKay, Machine Learning pioneer, dies
Thank you so much to lots of lovely friends who have offered to visit me in hospital! Ramesh and I are wanting to keep life really simple...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach
Remember when OPM got breached last year [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach]? There was a lot of excitement in various parts of the world (namely the US) because here we had a government department (Office of Personnel Management), and they’d just lost 21.
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Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming
Lately I’m writing lots of Rust , and I’m particularly interested in systems programming on unix. I’ve been using and contributing to a library called nix 1 , whose mission is to provide ‘Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs’.
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Don’t design like a programmer (2010)
Get honest, expert UX feedback on your AI-built product before you ship. Prioritized recommendations within 24 or 72 hours.
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Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU
Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.
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Cruise
There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line. This has just happened to Cruise, which is run by my friend...
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CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware
I needed a simple set of good outdoor surveillance cameras for a friends home. Like everything else I buy, I turned to Amazon. I found (what seemed like) a great deal for a set of 6 poe cameras and...
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My personal burnout – Lessons learned
Last week I was on the My Life For The Code podcast and had a really good talk with Shawn Rakowski (He has Continue Reading
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Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy
We want professional ethics and a great FP conference
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Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
The book starts with a story about a time Margaret Hamilton brought her young daughter with her to NASA, back in the days of the Apollo program. During a simulation mission, her daughter caused the mission to crash by pressing some keys that caused a prelaunch program to run during the simulated mission. Hamilton…
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Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide
RayHightower.com - Tech company founder. Commercial real estate investor. Building teams, software, and companies. Located in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
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What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
In this notebook we'll compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income (GDP per Capita) in 50 countries.
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Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book
A while ago, I bought the book “ The Go Programming Language ” written by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan. I have always been a fan of Brian Kernighan’s writings. I should admit that I bought the book mainly for his great examples and writings than for the Go language itself, but since then have got interested in the…
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Performance Culture
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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Your Life
every rectangle represents one week
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Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
The Scala language is large and complex, and it provides a variety of tools that a developer can use to do the same thing in a variety of ways. Given the range of possible solutions to every problem, how can a developer choose which one should be used? This is the first in a series of blog posts aiming to provide…
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Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014)
This is the third of a series of four posts based on a presentation I did at the Barcelona Ruby Conference called “20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord.” (posts: one two four and video ).
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