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Chrome gets faster as you use it. Chrome learns the topology of the web, browsing patterns, and critical resources on every page to optimize your browsing! A look under the hood of how it all comes together...
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about power and the Internet, and what I call the feudal model of IT security that is becoming more and more pervasive. Basically, between cloud services and locked-down end-user devices, we have less control and visibility over our security—and have no point but to trust those in power…
A company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge that the 64GB edition of Surface Pro will have 23GB of free storage out of the box. The 128GB model will have 83GB of free storage. It appears that the Windows 8 install, built-in apps, and a recovery partition will make up the 41GB total on the base Surface Pro model.
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There's plenty of discrimination and intolerance in our world, but never forget that pixels don't care.
When the TSA brought nude body scanners to the airports, demanding that the citizens allow the government to photograph them naked in order to get on a plane, there were some who said, “If yo…
A few months ago Evan Miller wrote an essay called The Mathematical Hacker . While an interesting post he does make a mistake when he gives ...
Outside of initial page load problems, “layout thrashing” is the most common performance problem I see in dynamic web applications. This is particularly true for Single Page Applications which build and destroy views on the fly. However, I’m often amazed by the number of web developers I run into who are unaware of…
Listen to the Post Here Website In the past month or so, I met with a handful of groups who sought guidance on putting together an iOS minimum viable product with a fully functioning backend. These…
Edit(2013/1/29): http-kit is a event driven HTTP server & client for Clojure. It’s open source, https://github.com/http-kit
It is June 2, 2010 and Mark Zuckerberg is sweating. He's wearing his hoodie—he's always wearing his hoodie—and he's on stage and either the lights or the questions are too hot. His hosts are asking him about the privacy overreaches of Facebook. He's uncomfortable. He's mopping his brow. He apologize
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I discovered a profound outcome of Go's support for static type checking and duck typing: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go.
I’ve been looking for the past year for a suitable programming environment for my two boys (10 & 7) that moves them beyond graphical environments like Scratch and Lego Mindstorms and into the land of real programming (a [few years ago](http://an.ton.io/blog/articles/2008/11/08/go-get-scratch) we had great success with…
A little fun for the last day of 2012: how to crash a program via division? x86’s IDIV instruction traps not only on division by zero, but also on INT_MIN / -1 (signed integer overflow).
The arithmetic-logic unit is a fundamental part of any computer, performing addition, subtraction, and logic operations, but how it works i...
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If you are a scientist, you confront ignorance as soon as you open your eyes. For example -- I am typing this post on a laptop computer that is powered by a lithium battery. No one has the slightest idea how and why it works. Metallic lithium can intercalate between the graphene sheets in graphite…
The following are just a collection of some useful shortcuts and tools I've found in Python over the years. Hopefully you find them helpful.
As you hopefully have heard, we at scikit-learn are doing a user survey (which is still open by the way). One of the requests there was t...
