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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
Previous: I'm Briefly Discussing President Obama's Reported Internet Wiretapping Proposal Tonight on "Coast to Coast AM" Radio
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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
Why does this matter? As Steve Yegge said , "If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work." Yegge describes 8 problems that can be solved with compilers (or equally well with interpreters, or with Yegge's typical heavy dosage of cynicism).
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Big Android Market expansion
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Wiretapping the Internet
On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies are changing, the administration argues, and modern digital systems aren’t as easy to monitor as traditional telephones. The government wants to force…
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An illusionist explains why Apple products really are magical
Andrew Mayne is an AI keynote speaker, OpenAI's original prompt engineer, former OpenAI science communicator, OpenAI Podcast host, creative educator, and WSJ bestselling novelist.
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Tuning Canabalt (explaining all the basic systems)
Canabalt's designer published the dimensions, speeds, jump rules and building sizes that made the game feel fair. Every number, explained.
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Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered
Complexity scientist and VC Samuel Arbesman
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Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast)
Fractal Tree of the Gods A while ago , I was disappointed to discover that a certain fractal tree program was visibly slower in Clojure...
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Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k
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I'll Tell You What is Causing Pain for Almost Everyone in the Western World
If you're one of the millions of knowledge workers slaving away in your cubicle all day, you deserve to work pain free. This article...
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Mysql "Swap Insanity"
Update: Also read A brief update on NUMA and MySQL. The “swap insanity” problem, in brief When running MySQL on a large system (e.g., 64GB RAM and dual quad core CPUs) with a large Inno…
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Bitbucket Joins Atlassian
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee
(Update: we've added a few engineers who asked to sign on right as the letter was going out; the final count is 96 signatures) Today, 87 prominent Internet engineers sent a joint letter the US Senate Judiciary Committee, declaring their opposition to the "Combating Online Infringement and...
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What happens when it's all glass?
Apple’s design dominance over the past decade has been due to industrial design first, software design second. Their hardware designs have inspired a generation. Over those last 10 years their software has gotten better and better too (it’s really damn good now), but it’s been…
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Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black, & Why You Shouldn't Either
Monet’s paintings evoke a sense of energy and life, they leap off the canvas with color and contrast, but Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career. By avoiding black in your own designs, you can replicate some of this dynamism. Monet and Other Impressionists Explored…