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Dragon: A distributed graph query engine
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GitLab Enterprise Edition price change
We are announcing an update to pricing for GitLab Enterprise Edition. We have replaced the three subscription plans with one simplified plan.
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Andy Grove has died
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Sustaining Digital Certificate Security
Posted by Ryan Sleevi, Software Engineer This post updates our previous notification of a misissued certificate for google.com Followin...
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Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage
Today’s Washington Post has a story entitled “Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption”, which describes the results of some research my students and I have bee…
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Postgresql 9.6: Support parallel aggregation
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer.
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StartSSL domain validation vulnerability
StartSSL certificate authority is well known for offering free domain validated SSL certificates, and also sells organisation and extended v...
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Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta
We’re excited to announce that the Node.js runtime on Google App Engine is going beta. Node.js makes it easy for developers to build performant web applications and mobile backends with JavaScript. App Engine provides an easy to use platform for developers to build, deploy, manage and automatically scale services on…
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Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
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The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early OO Programming
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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My Passion Was My Weak Spot
For many years in the beginning of my career I’d been more than happy to work for free or even at a loss as long as the work was interesting. I was so totally in love with computer programming and the feeling I got from making something work and then seeing that creation be used by other people that I completely lost…
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We only hire the trendiest
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a lot of people I know. Like me, Mike has 11 years in industry. Unlike me, he doesn't know a lot of folks at trendy companies, so I passed his resume around to some…
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The IQ Halo effect
On desirable correlates of intelligence
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Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside but dangerous inside
What's inside a counterfeit Macbook charger? After my Macbook charger teardown , a reader sent me a charger he suspected was counterfeit. ...
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Bypassing Antivirus with Ten Lines of Code
I had originally set out to write a long winded blog post on different antivirus bypass techniques. I went through what was supposed to be s...
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Full-Stack Redux Tutorial
Tero Parviainen
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Becoming an expert through deliberate practice
How do you become an expert? Here's an interview with the professor who created the 10,000 hours theory of expertise that will teach you how to be the best.
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Curl is 18 years old tomorrow
Another notch on the wall as we've reached the esteemed age of 18 years in the cURL project. 9 releases were shipped since our last birthday and we managed to fix no less than a total of 457 bugs in that time. On this single day in history... 20,000 persons will be visiting the web … Continue reading curl is 18 years…
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Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)
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Giving Up on TDD
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
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FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
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Somali Law
“ Few societies can so conspicuously lack those judicial, administrative, and political procedures which lie at the heart of the western conception of government. The traditional northern Somali political system has no chiefs to run it and no formal judiciary to control it. Men are divided amongst political units…
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Arguments Supporting Warrantless Surveillance Wither When Exposed to Sunlight
The government recently declassified a secret letter, written in 2002 laying out the executive branch’s initial legal justifications for the vast expansion of electronic surveillance after September 11, 2001. Like many others, it was written by former DOJ Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo,...
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Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies
Yesterday one of the major Russian business newspapers ("Vedomosti" -- it's like Financial Times or WSJ in Russia) published an …