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2015 was a pretty good year for Intel. Their quarterly earnings reports exceeded expectations every quarter. They continue to be the only game in town for the serious server market, which continues to grow exponentially; from the earnings reports of the two largest cloud vendors, we can see that AWS and Azure grew by…
Major upheavals in printing technology, language, politics, and religion converged in the fourteenth century, setting the stage for a brand…
When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for both a bytecode compiler and a runtime interpreter was a shift in thought. The compilation model…
Experiences navigating disintegrating American health care institutions, and what they might imply for life in 2037
Atlassian didn't jump through the standard hoops. Instead, they chose an unconventional path that would ultimately help them build a $10 billion business.
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Why do we need to talk about robust JavaScript and how do we achieve it?
The internet is full of dogmatic commandments for choosing and using keys in relational databases. At times it verges on a holy war: should you use natural or artificial keys? Auto-incrementing integers, UUIDs?
Talk to yourself to make sure your tests help you achieve your aims
For a long time I was looking for some time to play with Lasp: Lasp is a suite of libraries aimed at providing a comprehensive programming system for planetary scale Elixir and Erlang applications. Ye
In early 2016 I realized that it was possible to use zero-width characters, like zero-width non-joiner or other zero-width characters like the zero-width space to fingerprint text. Even with just a single type of zero-width character the presence or non-presence of the non-visible character is enough bits to…
The transparency movement has finally come of age. Power has shifted to the users. Their trust has to be earned in different ways now.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) 1944 Simple Sabotage Field ManualA Timeless Classic Answer: Read the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. A while back I went to the inaugural meeting of a ‘commun…
