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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
TLDR: Google suddenly claims a “terms of service” violation on a route plotting site that has been built on the Maps API for a decade.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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How to Name Clojure Functions
This is a guide on naming Clojure functions. There are exceptions to every rule. When you’re defining something based on natural language, there are more exceptions than rules. I break these rules more often than I follow them. This guide is just a starting point for thinking about how to name things.
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Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
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Category Theory and Declarative Programming
This is part 11 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Natural Transformations. See the Table of Contents. Introduction to Part II In the first part of the book I argued that both category theo…
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The Trouble with the TPP, Day 5: Rights Holders “Shall” vs. Users “May”
The Trouble with the TPP series concludes the first week with a look at how the TPP treats the interests of rights holders and users completely differently (prior posts include Day 1: US Blocks Balancing Provisions, Day 2: Locking in Digital Locks, Day 3: Copyright Term Extension, Day 4: Copyright Notice and Takedown…
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A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in endings of German town names
A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.
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Nvidia GPUs can break Chrome's incognito mode
When I launched Diablo III, I didn’t expect the pornography I had been looking at hours previously to be splashed on the screen. But that’s exactly what replaced the black loading scree…
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Don't Assume It's Difficult Until It Is
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!
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Fast Servers
There's a network-server programming pattern which is so popular that it's the canonical approach towards writing network servers:
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An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff
Three steps to gain a new superpower.
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How to fend off a jerk
When I was fifteen, I worked for a full-service gas station and auto repair shop. I know what you're thinking (unless you're in New Jersey or Oregon), "what is a full-service gas station?" Yes, there was a time when a smiling gas jockey would greet your car and fill up your gas. You didn't
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FreeBSD Jails the hard way
There are many great options for managing FreeBSD Jails. iocage, warden and ez-jail aim to streamline the process and make it quick an easy to get going. But sometimes the tools built right into the OS are overlooked.
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Why I'm joining the Dart Team
UPDATE May 2018: It’s 2 years later and this article still gets hundreds of reads a month. I should note some of the things below are outdated. For example, when I say “soon, you’ll be able to …
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How to C in 2016
This is a draft I wrote in early 2015 and never got around to publishing. Here’s the mostly unpolished version because it wasn’t doing anybody any good sitting in my drafts folder. The simplest change was updating year 2015 to 2016 at publication time.
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Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person
“Universal love,” said the cactus person. “Transcendent joy,” said the big green bat. “Right,” I said. “I’m absolutely in favor of both those things.…
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The format of strings in early (pre-C) Unix
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)
Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours, and while these societies have had far less consumer goods and what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far…
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Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
About a year ago, we made the decision to use Paypal as the primary payment method for our company, Hacker Paradise. After about a month…
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The internet has made defensive writers of us all
I was struck by this passage in Steven Pinker’s article about why academics’ writing stinks :
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Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%
Sea of Red in Asia There's another bloodbath in Asian equities his morning, the second in a week. click on chart for sharper image C...