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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Glacier redux
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture , Cloud computing & storage , Object storage | 14 comments
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Porting 600k Map Views to OpenStreetMap/MapBox
This past week, we here at DoubleMap made a big change that users probably won’t notice. Instead of Google Maps, all of our public maps are …
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You Don't Want XTS
XTS is the de-facto standard disk encryption mode, which makes it look like a good general-purpose one. It isn't. What disk encryption actually promises, and why XTS's guarantees don't travel.
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Bitcoin Price Pressure
The price of bitcoin keeps trending down. [1] This causes a lot of people to declare the end of bitcoin. It’s important to understand that the default price pressure of the bitcoin ecosystem is...
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Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
Improved privacy options put better controls in your hands.
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JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail
GOPAY303 adalah platform game digital yang menyediakan strategi pola RTP paling ajaib saat ini. Menyajikan analisis akurat, navigasi kencang, dan aksesibilitas ramah mobile 24 jam.
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When TDD Doesn't Work
Over the years many people have complained about the so-called “religiosity” of some of the proponents of Test Driven Development. The recent brouhaha over TDD has, once again, brought these complaints to the fore. So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about when TDD does not work.
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The Morality Police in Your Checking Account
In the latest example of a troubling trend in which companies play the role of law enforcement and moral police, Chase Bank has shut down the personal bank accounts of hundreds of adult entertainers. We’ve written before about the dire consequences to online speech when service providers start...
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A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
We present a new type of augmented mechanical keyboard, sensing rich and expressive motion gestures performed both on and directly above the device. A low-resolution matrix of infrared (IR) proximity sensors is interspersed with the keys of a regular mechanical keyboard. This results in coarse but high frame-rate…
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Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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What's New in Mercurial 3.0
HgLab is a powerful self-hosted Mercurial Server and Repository Management for Windows with Push and Pull server, Active Directory and LDAP integration, built-in Pushlog and other goodies
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The origin of “log in” (2011)
We do it dozens of times a day, every day, but why do we call it logging in? “Log in” is one of those phrases that sounds weirder the more you say it. It’s ubiquitous in online li…
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Introducing the new PHP on Heroku
PHP developers are makers at heart. The core strength of PHP has always been in creating a tight feedback cycle between developers and their audiences.
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Programming Sucks
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 [1] you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.”
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Android betrays tethering data
Software engineer, Free, Open Source Software Consultant, Innovator, Fedora & Debian Developer
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Become a better programmer with programming challenges
When I went to university me and some friends spent time on practising algorithm implementations for the national programming contests that ...
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers
Rust is a systems language and therefore must give you raw access to memory. It does this (as in C++) via pointers. Pointers are one area w...
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Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
It’s not an interface adjustment or tweak. It’s not a bug fix. It’s a complete re-envisioning of Firefox’s user experience, and it’s been brewing for the past five years.
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The 64-core Parallella is alive
Adapteva is now Zero ASIC - www.zeroasic.com
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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More
Sometimes growth hides the fact that a business is on the verge of failure. Here's how.
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