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Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances using Docker on an external volume
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary
Fairchild’s rapid growth in revenue, number of employees, and impact on the local community can be compared to Google 40 years later
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No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
To solve Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, many so-called layer 2 protocols have been proposed. All of these protocols operate on the same, relatively simple, principle:
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Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (2003)
A notorious ‘second-system effect‘ often afflicts the successors of small experimental prototypes. The urge to add everything that was left out the first time around all too frequently leads to huge and overcomplicated design. Less well known, because less common, is the ‘third-system effect’; sometimes, after the…
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Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project ZeroPatch diffing is a common technique of comparing ...
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A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor
This post is my attempt to write an easy to understand introduction to the main ideas behind building a real-time col...
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A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder
This week I took a crack at writing a branchless UTF-8 decoder: a function that decodes a single UTF-8 code point from a byte stream without any if statements, loops, short-circuit operators, or other sorts of conditional jumps. You can find the source code here along with a test suite and benchmark:
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Testing Cliqz in Firefox
About a year ago, Mozilla announced a strategic investment in Cliqz GmbH, the Munich, Germany-based provider of search and privacy tools. Today, we want to tell you about an important ...
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Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
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The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November
[UPDATE: This post was originally said that the SegWit2X fork will happen on November 1. In fact it is scheduled to occur on block 494,764 ...
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Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift
Lack of ABI stability, slow compile times, poor Xcode support, and more hold Swift back
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Open Source Certification:Press Releases
Announcement of “OSI Certified” Open Source Mark On June 15 1999 ZDNet broke the news that OSI’s application for an Open Source trademark had lapsed, anticipating the public state…
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Lost Laughs in Leisure Suit Larry
Heads up: This post is going to have some rougher language than what I normally post. We’re going to be talking about the kinds of things teenagers type into videogame text parsers, which means we’re going to get into some naughty words and otherwise unusual subject matter for this blog. I don’t know why I’m warning…
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Joining Google to better explain search
When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday.
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NNVM Compiler: A New Open End-To-End Compiler for AI Frameworks
You can choose among multiple artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to develop AI algorithms. You also have a choice of a wide range of hardware to train and deploy AI models. The diversity of frameworks and hardware is crucial to maintaining the health of the AI ecosystem. This diversity, however, also introduces…
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The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open
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Hazelcast 3.8.3
2017-10-07: IMap is not the only datatype supporting merge: ICache is mergable as well.
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Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
Got compute- and memory-hungry applications? We’ve got you covered, with new machine types that have up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory—a 50% increase in compute resources per Google Compute Engine VM. These machine types run on Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Skylake), and offer the most vCPUs of any cloud…
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
Here at Mozilla, we’re extremely excited about next month’s release of Firefox Quantum, with massive speed improvements, a brand new UI, and many Developer Tools upgrades -- available now in ...
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Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets
A while back I wrote that Robert Martin was ruining software by being too good at programming. That was supposed to be a joke. Since then he’s done his damndest to actually ruin software by telling people they’re doing it wrong. His most recent response where he yells at software correctness was the breaking point for…
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Building on Rock, Not Sand
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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How to defeat Ed25519 and EdDSA using faults
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