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Sabotaged by Polish orthography
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Cargo cult data science
Data science as a cargo cult
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B2fJ – A Java Virtual Machine to run on the 8-bit home computers of the 80s
Back to the Future Java (b2fJ) aims at bringing the power of Java to 8-bit home computers of the ’80s. This project provides a toolchain to cross-compile Java programs under Windows.
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300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords
Edit 1: The following day, I loaded another set of passwords which has brought this up to 320M. More on why later on. Edit 2: The API model described below has subsequently been discontinued [https://www.troyhunt.com/enhancing-pwned-passwords-privacy-by-exclusively-supporting-anonymity/] in favour of the
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How I implemented my own crypto
Despite advice to the contrary, I have implemented my own crypto for serious use. Here's how.
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‘This’ in JavaScript
Master JavaScript 'this' keyword: Learn six contexts where 'this' changes value. Essential for OOP and frameworks.
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Languages Which Almost Became CSS
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences
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Krita Foundation: Update
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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How to find a remote job
Join DeeKit's global community of digital nomads. Find friends, work opportunities, and adventure anywhere in the world.
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Grokking Diesel, Rust's ORM
Diesel (http://diesel.rs) is an ORM (Object-relational mapper) and Query Builder written in Rust. It supports Postgresql, Mysql and SQLite…
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Explaining Programming to Six-Year-Olds
It was more fun than I expected! I treated this seriously and I was well prepared, and it paid off. The kids were interested and I think they might even remember something.
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Microsoft didn’t sandbox Windows Defender, so I did
Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a sandbox. This surprised me. Sandboxing is one of the most effective security-hardening techniques. Why did Microsoft sandbox other high-value attack surfaces such as the JIT code in Microsoft Edge, but leave Windows Defender…
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Decrypting Amber Rudd
1 Aug, 2017 Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube (Google/Alphabet, Inc) have formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and Amber Rudd is asking them to quietly drop end-to-end encryption from their products. You should not believe a single word any of those companies tells you about end-to-end…
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Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper?
With peak submission season for machine learning conferences just behind us, many in our community have peer-review on the mind. One especially hot topic is the arXiv preprint service. Computer scientists often post papers to
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Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Practical Guide to SQL Transaction Isolation
You may have seen isolation levels in the documentation for your database, felt mildly uneasy, and went on with life. Few day-to-day examples of using transactions really mention isolation. Most use the database’s default isolation level and hope for the best. It’s a fundamental topic to understand however and you’ll…
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, August 1, 2017.
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Routing & Network Namespaces
Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.
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Krita Foundation in Trouble
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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