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PuTTY 0.63 released, fixing four security holes
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Ways to make yourself happier
Looking for some low-lift ways to make yourself happier? Here's some of the best research that we've found on personal happiness.
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Play Framework Security Advisory
Play Framework - The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala
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Security advisory: Breach and Django
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on Aug. 6, 2013
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Wild Ideas
A wild idea is one that many people think is obviously quite unlikely. I'd say at least a third of these wild ideas are likely true. (Parenthetic links are to more of my writings .)
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Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August
Many software companies don't A/B test. Unfortunately, their reasons for doing so are all wet.
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Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox
Testing on multiple mobile devices is costly, time consuming and the default Android emulator is notoriously slow. What to do? Start using a fast one.
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Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software
The "software obfuscation" system encrypts software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it.
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Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code
In 2009, a brilliant software engineer Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the FBI at Newark Liberty International Airport. The allegation? He stole Goldman Sachs source code, about 8 megabytes of it....
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A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009)
This is the second post in the article series about Unix utilities that you should know about. In this post I will introduce you to the netcat tool or simply nc. Netcat is often referred to as a Swiss Army knife utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army…
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Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the “condensed time line” section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so. <iframe…
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The idea maze
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Open letter to Sal Khan
Dear Mr. Khan, A year ago, I expressed my concerns on the Washington Post’s blog that your decimal place value videos and exercises failed to incorporate very basic knowledge about how people…
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Thoughts on Colocation
After a week of slogging servers around northern California, I thought a brain dump on colocation might be useful to readers, and to future me.
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Why does Ember.js rock?
In response to this blog post about why Angular.js rocks, I thought I’d write something similar about Ember.js.
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100,000 DOM Updates
Click the table of zeroes once. Note that the text input field remains responsive even as we run 100,000 updates on the DOM. The colors of the table show the render batching boundaries. Note, I would not try this on a mobile device ;)
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