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Emac’s Org Mode will improve your software engineering
Your brain is chaos
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript
Open Source Freelancer
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How your data is collected and commoditised via “free” online services
I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer
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Thomas Jefferson and Apple versus the FBI
When Prohibition began, anti-alcohol crusaders demanded that the St. Louis Public Library burn every book that explained "the home production of alcohol for drinks". The librarian insisted on keeping the books but agreed to hide them from the "general public".
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Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation
“Markdown” is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...
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Scala’s Types of Types
This blog post came into being after a few discussions about Types in Scala after some of JavaOne’s parties in 2013. After those discussions I figured that many questions are often repeated by different people, during their learning of Scala. I though that we didn’t have a full list of all tricks what we can to with…
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The web's original sin
What do a recent A List Apart article , the ad blocker discussion of a few months back, and my browser testing plans have in common?
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On asking job candidates to code
At DigitalOcean, we are making some changes to the recruitment process of back-end developers. We simplified the job description and the interview process, and added a step that asks the candidate ...
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Diving into Other People's Code
This post will walk you through an exercise in diving into someone else's code. The goal will be to make an arbitrary change to the code of the Spyder Python IDE , a project I have never touched before in my life, and learn just enough about it to accomplish what I want without getting bogged down. You will learn how…
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The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad
One thing that works well in practice in cases where you really don’t want to process single bytes at a time is to use a union for going from one type to another. Granted, writing one member of a union and reading from a different one also isn’t allowed per the standard, but every compiler I’ve come across allows it…
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A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back
A collection of photos from my trip to North Korea, with historical context.
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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
Stéphane Graber's website -
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Ditching tmux
This week I started an experiment. I wanted to know whether I would be able to completely ditch tmux. Don’t get me wrong here, I absolutely love how tmux makes terminal multiplexing transparent for me. I’m also very used to <C-b>c, <C-b>1-0 and so on. I also have a custom set of keymaps and plugins I use frequently…
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Deep Q-Learning: Space Invaders
Ever since I learned about neural networks playing Atari games I wanted to reimplemnted it and learn how it works. Below you can see an AI playing Space Invaders. I trained it during my batch at Recurse Center on little over 50M frames.
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Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
US President Obama had...
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Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
I am an indie iPhone developer, and I’ve been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way to work for me.
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I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
10 Mar 2016 | self-Amos , making , orthodontics , laser-scanning , prototyping , somatic feedback
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A better offer letter
At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta often don’t…
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Data is a Toxic Asset
Thefts of personal information aren’t unusual. Every week, thieves break into networks and steal data about people, often tens of millions at a time. Most of the time it’s information that’s needed to commit fraud, as happened in 2015 to Experian and the IRS. Sometimes it’s stolen for purposes of embarrassment or…
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Breaking homegrown crypto
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A technical guide to SEO
Complete technical SEO checklist covering HTTPS, meta tags, sitemaps, robots.txt, page speed, duplicate content, and Google Webmaster Tools setup.