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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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A new set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME
UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.UPDATE (5/14/18): More information has been released. See EFF's more detailed explanation and analysis here.A group of European security researchers have...
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How to start a Go project in 2018
This post is fairly old. See the updated version Starting a Go project in 2023 Getting started with a Go project in 2018 is frankly a little more painful then getting anything else started IMHO. With …
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“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”
I have been job hunting in the last 2 months or so. Thankfully, I am settled with a company I admire now, and it seemed like I had more luck than the average job applicant. But among the handful of companies that I had the pleasure to interview with, I had my fair share of interesting moments.
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On null
I've had an interesting conversation on the topic of null over the last few days, spurred by the logical disaster of null. I disagreed with the statement in the post that: Logically-speaking, there is no such thing as Null This is true in some logics, but not in all logics. Boolean logic as described in...
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A guide to better embedded C++
Disclaimer: this, by no means, is not a definitive description of the whole embedded-specific development. This is just a small good practice about interaction with hardware.
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Git submodules revisited
Possibly not as horrible as I'd thought
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Nerves v1.0 Released
We are thrilled to announce Nerves v1.0 is finally out. This has been 4219 commits by 102 contributors since the initial commit on October 29th, 2013! This would not have been possible without our corporate sponsors and individual backers.
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Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)
Michael Snoyman's personal homepage and blog, featuring writing about programming, open source, health, finance, religion, and whatever else catches his interest.
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Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
I decided to write an article about a thing that is second nature to embedded systems programmers – low level bit hacks. Bit hacks are ingenious little programming tricks that manipulate integers in a smart and efficient manner. Instead of performing operations (such as counting the number of 1 bits in an integer)…
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Glom – Restructured Data for Python
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
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My struggle to learn React
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF).
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Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming
My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…
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Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods
Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods | Mirantis
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Core Erlang by Example
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Sublime Text 3.1 Released
Since version 3.0 we've been shipping frequent dev builds , refining Sublime Text for a more polished experience all-around. Those dev builds are now rolling out to everyone as Sublime Text 3.1. The full changelog for 3.1 includes every detail, but the following are some we'd like to highlight:
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Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking
After we published this paper, Matthias Hauswirth kindly pointed out similarities between this work and the PL-detective , a body of work that is very closely related that we did not previously know. Less similar but also related---and entertainingly written up---is smeagol . Since we published the paper, we have…
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The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async
A blog where I write down my thoughts, ideas and notions, as an exercise to cement them in my memory and improve on their concepts.
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Java’s Mysterious Interrupt
One of the lesser known parts of Java is InterruptedException. With its vague-sounding name and non-committal Javadoc, few people are able to figure out what they need to do with it. Since I myself didn’t really grok it, I decided to put together a post explaining how interruption works. If you are looking for a more…
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More fun with reactive-banana-automation
My house knows when people are using the wifi, and keeps the inverter on so that the satellite internet is powered up, unless the battery is too low. When nobody is using the wifi, the inverter turns off, except when it's needed to power the fridge.