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Turkey's Financial Crisis
Earlier this week, Mohamed El-Erian was lost for words.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.
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Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December
Update 22 December (22.00 CET): launch confirmed for 25 DecemberUpdate 21 December (22.30 CET): new target launch dateESA and NASA will be broadcasting live as the James Webb Space Telescope is launched to space on ESA’s Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 12:20 GMT / 13:20 CET on Saturday 25 December.
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Building Remote Teams for Startups
Most of the companies in the last year had to try out remote work in one way or the other. These are my highly notes on #remote #teams.
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Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic
Cinia agreed to start a project to build a new subsea cable in the Arctic with Alaskan company Far North Digital.
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Best practices for writing code comments
While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than…
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Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
With companies taking advantage of Free and Open Source Software far more often than they contribute back, and harming users in the process, is it even worth working on anymore?
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The Sucker Complex
One is killed every minute
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Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
Unum builds the Search, Storage, and Networking engines powering the modern data stack. Deployed on 100M+ devices, our technology serves DBMS unicorns and frontier AI labs.
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Advent of Code Surveys: Results
Results dashboard with the yearly (unofficial) Advent of Code participant survey
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Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)
*Couple of weeks ago we have noticed the article getting attention around twitter. As it is using our WMS EOxMaps endpoint we have asked Erin Davis if we could host her idea here. At EOX we endorse brilliant and unique ideas that utilize our tools and data. Thank you for this most interesting contri ...
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State of Valhalla
This is the first of three documents describing the current State of Valhalla. The second is The Language Model ; the third is The JVM Model .
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Be curious, not judgmental
The trigger
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Krita 5.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
Kestrel : A completely open computer design.
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Step Away from Stack Overflow
Notes that I mostly write for myself, but you can read if you want.
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Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012)
I have been programming in Lua for about 9 months and it seemed like a good time to pause and reflect on my experience with it. I have used various languages over the years -- Perl ( soaplite.com and other projects, including my current consulting work), C ( a DHCP /DNS server for Arduino and a ping-pong juggling…
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Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
PortableApps.com has hit the 1 billion portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 1,000,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users in dozens of languages all over the world. All of the 1 billion portable apps served from PortableApps.com were freeware or open source software which run on our open source, free…
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Saying goodbye to an old friend
Our tracker blocker for iOS and macOS, Better, was poisoned by a rotten apple and died.
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Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand
The late 90s saw the emergence of Capcom in the world of arcades. The Osaka based company seemed to produce one hit after another with Ghouls'n Ghosts in 1988, Final Fight in 1989 and Street Fighter II in 1991 among a myriad of other excellent games.
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Cache Poisoning at Scale
Identifying and exploiting over 70 cache poisoning vulnerabilities across major bug bounty programs, including GitHub, GitLab, Shopify and HackerOne.
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Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
Okay, but apart from generics and fuzzing, what has Go 1.18 ever done for us?
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This Year in Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications