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Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch – C64 Demo Effect (2016)
This article describes the inner workings of Massively Interleaved Sprite Crunch ( MISC ), a new C64 demo effect introduced in my demo Lunatico .
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
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Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
"Move fast and break things: A cautionary tale from Facebook's code quality woes."
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A comment left on Slashdot
The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for “intelligence”) worship at the altar of youth. I don̵…
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We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
12 Mar, 2017 The Web we have is not broken for Google and Facebook. People farmers are reaping the rewards of their violations into our lives to the tune of tens of billions in revenue every year. How can they possibly be our allies?
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Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)
What follows is a set of short essays that collectively encourage a philosophy of clarity in programming rather than giving hard rules. I don't expect you to agree with all of them, because they are opinion and opinions change with the times. But they've been accumulating in my head, if not on paper until now, for a…
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The Patriot Missile Failure
On February 25, 1991, during the Gulf War, an American Patriot Missile battery in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, failed to track and intercept an incoming Iraqi Scud missile. The Scud struck an American Army barracks, killing 28 soldiers and injuring around 100 other people. A report of the General Accounting office…
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We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to describe our software
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
👋 Linux commands, bash scripts, and tech pro-tips.
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An Encyclopedic Treatment of Type Design, Typefaces and Fonts
An encyclopedic site about typefaces and type design, managed by Luc Devroye
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Convertible and SAFE notes
Angel/seed rounds used to be done via priced equity securities, either common or preferred. Then, starting about ten years ago, we started to see convertible debt being used in the angel and seed rounds. By 2010 this was the norm and Paul Graham tweeted this in Aug 2010: Convertible notes have won. Every investment so…
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Benedict’s Newsletter
What mattered in tech this week? A weekly email newsletter.
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EFF Applauds Amazon for Pushing Back on Request for Echo Data
The number of Internet-enabled sensors in homes across the country is steadily increasing. These sensors are collecting personal information about what’s going on inside the home, and they are doing so in a volume and detail never before possible. The law, of course, has not kept up. There are no...
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Linting HTML using CSS
Articles on frontend development and more.
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The Senators that introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your internet history
Protection of your Internet history is up in the air thanks to new, pending legislation. A new bill coming before Senate aims to completely dismantle the
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The no excuses culture
Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raini…
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Reaching new records in speech recognition
IBM Watson Speech to Text converts audio into accurate text, enabling real-time transcription, captions and insights with scalable AI APIs.
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Crazy Eddie Fraud
The Crazy Eddie fraud may appear smaller and gentler than the massive billion-dollar frauds exposed in recent times
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Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
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Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust
(N.B. The word “fuck” appears multiple times in this post. I recommend that the reader temporarily not consider “fuck” as profanity, as it isn’t used that way here.)
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Goodbye Mac App Store
While Jettison and HistoryHound are still supported and sold on the St. Clair Software website, I’ve pulled them from the Mac App Store. The versions that were in the Mac App Store were older revisions, and it just didn’t make business sense to rearchitect the apps to meet Apple’s current requirements for approval so…
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The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet
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A response to “How to never complete anything”
The following is my response to Ewan Valentine’s blog post “How to never complete anything” that I discovered on Hacker News. Once again, I ask for people’s indulgence for posting a reply on my own blog rather than in the Hacker News comments. I find writing on my own blog a bit easier than wading […]
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How to Scale PostgreSQL on AWS: Learnings from Citus Cloud
Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1B Business
Trello was so focused on building its free customer base first and monetizing later that by the time it looked to its paid subscribers, it was too late.
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