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Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)
Checked exceptions have always been a controversial feature of the Java language.
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Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
Professor Sir Martin Hairer is the single winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
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Let employees sell their equity
Sometimes people choose to work for one company over another for reasons related to the work environment, for example what the company does, and whether the other employees create a place that's pleasant to work at. But a major factor is compensation. If Company A and Company B are largely comparable, but Company A…
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How I operated as a staff engineer at Heroku
I was incredibly lucky to spend 5 amazing years at Heroku. By the end of my time, I was operating in a Staff capacity, although I’m honestly completely uncle...
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Nikola: How to Parlay an Ocean of Lies into a Partnership with GM
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Nikola Corp. This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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How Do Routers Work, Really?
An accessible overview of how exactly a router works, with code examples.
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Caddy Server Is Acquired By Apilayer
Ardan Labs partnership with Caddy Server has led to the acquisition of the popular free open-source web server platform by Apilayer. …
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Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF
How to use Rust and BPF to intercept the data sent and received by programs that use OpenSSL.
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Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
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Removing email registration improved retention
Why email registration is dead. How removing it improved retention by a solid 4.5%
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What Clojure Spec is and what you can do with it
This is the blog version of a talk I gave on the 2017-12-13 at the Athens Clojure Meetup, which was kindly hosted by Skroutz . The video of the talk is available (the talk was given in Greek, but there are English subtitles). This blog entry is not an exact transcript of the talk, I've added links and more information…
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Decision Table Patterns
Decision tables are easy, simple, and powerful. You can teach them in five minutes and write one in half that time. You can look at a table and understand what it’s saying, see if it matches your problem, and check for design flaws. So it’s kinda weird that there’s basically nothing about them online. I wrote an…
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Letsencrypt, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Letsencrypt is a pretty neat concept: free secure certificates for web servers, in order to increase the adoption of HTTPS across the web. The basic idea is that certificates should be free, that the barrier to install them should be as low as possible and that updating certificates should be automated. It protects…
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Assange Hearing Day 8
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defence witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler – he would), and more importantly, why? QC’s representing governments usually seek to radiate calm control, and treat defence arguments as almost…
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Go modules have a v2+ problem
Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2 , and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.
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Annoying website features I face as a blind person
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Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference?
Have you heard people say that async Python code is faster than "normal" (or sync) Python code? How can that be? In this article I'm going to try to explain what async is and how it differs from…
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Promoted Add-ons Pilot
Today, we are launching a pilot program to give developers a way to promote their add-ons on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This pilot program, which will run between the end of September ...
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Async Views in Django 3.1
This tutorial looks at how to get started with Django's asynchronous views.
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Classes are a way of writing higher order functions
Joe and I recently kicked off a re-read of SICP . I can say that it is the most interesting textbook I have gone through. Imagine, you begin with just 4 or 5 constructs, and you end up building algebraic equation solvers, circuit simulators, and even logic programming languages. Because you start off with such few…
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More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy
Google searches for privacy-focused Gmail alternatives have steadily increased since 2019. We examine the numbers and potential reasons why.
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State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
The landscape has changed for self-serve business website design and hosting. Our review of three most practical DIY approaches, suitable for a simple static website up-to a full Content Management System (CMS).
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Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting
New Yale research represents the first known attempt to deploy a mobile, bedside MRI, which promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting.
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Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards
This story, like another in the past , started as an eBay purchase that I would soon regret. I was scrolling through my favorite eBay supplier when I found a listing titled Job Lot Of Roughly 350 Various Network Cards . This of course piqued my interest. Some close photo inspection identified a whole load of cards in…
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Important update for LTSE Equity customers.
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Vue.js Creator Evan You Interview
We spoke with Evan about the release of Vue 3, his opinion on no-backend & fullstack approaches, Vue use cases and the work-life balance of the creator of the technology.
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Assange Hearing Day 7
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH This morning we went straight in to the evidence of Clive Stafford Smith, a dual national British/American lawyer licensed to practice in the UK. He had founded Reprieve in 1999 originally to oppose the death penalty, but after 2001 it had branched out into torture, illicit detention and…