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Performance Culture
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Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
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Your Life
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Guns and suicide: A fatal link
In the United States, suicides outnumber homicides almost two to one. Perhaps the real tragedy behind suicide deaths—about 30,000 a year, one for every 45
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Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
The Scala language is large and complex, and it provides a variety of tools that a developer can use to do the same thing in a variety of ways. Given the range of possible solutions to every problem, how can a developer choose which one should be used? This is the first in a series of blog posts aiming to provide…
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Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014)
This is the third of a series of four posts based on a presentation I did at the Barcelona Ruby Conference called “20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord.” (posts: one two four and video ).
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The 3DS Cryptosystem
I think one of the biggest challenge for system engineers is designing security. Recently, at the 32c3 conference, plutoo, derrek, and smea presented a series of hacks that completely defeated the security of the 3DS. As a result, people have implemented boot-time unsigned code execution (called “arm9loaderhax” in the…
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How a Car Engine Works
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Knuth versus Email (1999)
I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
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Frog and Toad are Cofounders
The Characters you loved as a child, all grown up and working in San Francisco
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Why Go gets criticized so much
Obviously, not everyone hates Go. But there was a [quora question]( https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Go-seem-to-be-the-most-heavily- criticised-among-the-newer-programming-languages?srid=uCiY&share=1) recently about why everyone criticizes Go so much. (sorry, I don’t normally post links to Quora, but it was the…
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WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users
End-to-end encryption has just gone massively mainstream. In an update on March 31st, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp quietly pushed an update adding end-to-end encryption enabled by default to its chat and call functionality. They announced the change publicly on Tuesday, allowing...
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Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector
Each Erlang process has its own stack and heap which are allocated in the same memory block. When the stack and the heap meet, the garbage collector is triggered and memory is reclaimed. Find out more on our blog.
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I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver
If any of you reading this have decision-making ability along those lines, I would appreciate your assistance in making this happen. If you're wondering why: they are still shipping a version of my software that I released in 2014. Since that's roughly a decade in software years, it recently began popping up a single…
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Why Erlang Matters
Everything you need to integrate your application with 8x8 products, or embed 8x8 products into your own platform.
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Signal Desktop beta now publicly available
For the past few months, the Signal Desktop beta has been available through an invitation program. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback, made a lot of improvements, and are now ready to open the beta up for public access.
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Exploding offers are bullshit
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers.
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Android Studio 2.0 Released
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
(Also see my follow-up post on getting organized, and sign up to my tiny letter to get contacted about fixing housing affordability in SF). San Francisco’s housing system is broken. The only way...
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Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
Back in November we wrote a blog post about one latency spike. Today I'd like to share a continuation of that story. As it turns out, the misconfigured rmem setting wasn't the only source of added latency. It looked like Mr Wolf hadn't finished his job.
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NYC subway math
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data.
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