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Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML
I made a very explicit, pragmatic design decision with afl-fuzz : for performance and reliability reasons, I did not want to get into stati...
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Java for Everything
I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I didn’t like.
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Rust borrow and lifetimes
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
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An age-old question
Back to: Let's put the future behind us | Forward to: On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
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Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain
The days of thinking of time as a river—evenly flowing, always advancing—are over. Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain.
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Hard-won lessons about money and investing
Any time you talk about money, you risk sounding like a jerk. I’m going to take that risk in this post. I’ll start out by talking about a couple ways I shot myself in the foot financial…
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An argument against call/cc (2012)
Why a programming language should not offer a primitive to capture undelimited continuations (call/cc).
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What's wrong with statistics in Julia?
Introduction Link to heading Several months ago, I promised to write an updated version of my old post, “The State of Statistics in Julia”, that would describe how Julia’s support for statistical computing has evolved since December 2012. I’ve kept putting off writing that post for several reasons, but the most…
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How speakers make sound
Check out Animagraffs on youtube > .
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Inline PGP signatures considered harmful
People often suggest that inline PGP signatures in e-mail are somehow more compatible or more acceptable than using PGP/MIME . This is a mistake. Inline PGP signatures are prone to several failure modes, up to and including undetectable message tampering.
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Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer
One of the best things about modern cryptography is the beautiful terminology. You could start any number of punk bands (or Tumblrs) named after cryptography terms like ‘hard-core predicate&#…
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A Japanese-based multinational made a CD-based console once
Even today, plenty of disinformation still abounds regarding the WIZ code. A 22.050Khz wobble that was used to identify legitimate CD's. Maybe one day we'll put them to rest... :)
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How Not to Write a Signal Handler
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Why browse the Web in Emacs? (2008)
“Are you browsing Slashdot in Emacs?”, W- asked me after he glanced at my screen.
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Getting Organized with Org Mode
I’ve been using Emacs Org mode for nearly a year now. For a while I mostly just used it to take and organize notes, but over time I’ve discovered it’s an incredibly useful tool for managing projects and tasks, writing and publishing documents, keeping track of time and todo lists, and maintaining a journal. Project…
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Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012)
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul." -John Carmack When the complexity of modern computing gets fatiguing, I look back to the simpler machines of my childhood. I grew up surrounded by various 8-bit and 16-bit machines (most of them already a few years outdated at the time),…
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Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?
Self-examination for Seed and Series A startups
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Hard disk hacking
Apart from this article, I also gave a talk at OHM2013 about this subject. The video of that talk (minus the first few minutes) is now online .
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The Animated Guide to Emacs Paredit
Dan's blog
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The Increasing Trend of Online Extortion
I heard about this guy, walked into a federal bank with a portable phone, handed the phone to the teller, the guy on the other end of the phone said: “We got this guy’s little girl, and if you don’t give him all your money, we’re gonna