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How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.
ZFS keeps winning over btrfs on many fronts. Here's a short list that explains exactly how.
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Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job
I have long been a fan of Wired's coverage of privacy and security issues, particularly the insightful reporting and analysis by Ryan Singel...
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Countering "Trusting Trust"
Way back in 1974, Paul Karger and Roger Schell discovered a devastating attack against computer systems. Ken Thompson described it in his classic 1984 speech, “Reflections on Trusting Trust.” Basically, an attacker changes a compiler binary to produce malicious versions of some programs, INCLUDING ITSELF. Once this is…
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Riak 1.2 Officially Released
Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Riak team announced Riak to the world. To say we've come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we’re pleased to announce the release and general a
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The weakest link by far is Apple
Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web…
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Racket v5.3
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Release Highlights:: Submodules are nested module declarations that can be loaded and run independently from the enclosing module. See also the overview of su...
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Please turn on two-factor authentication
You should read Mat Honan’s heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple’s security practices, but I would stil…
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Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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One Thousand Dollars an Hour
Update: I've since adjusted my rate to $300/hr since I wanted to start taking clients. This crazy was designed to prevent getting work unless it...
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An Unexpected Ass Kicking
One afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea to do some work. Instead, I had an encounter with the guy who invented the computer: Russell Kirsch
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Elsevier charges authors to make items "Open Access", then charges to read them.
[This is a long post – in summary Elsevier breach licences and charge readers for Open Access. I also ask the world to verify and amplify my conclusions].
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Principles of UI design
A list of important principles of user interface design.
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Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time,...