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DAOs, Hacks and the Law
“The DAO” is in the midst of an epic hack due to an exploit on the originating smart contracts. Unfortunately it may seem that their own…
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Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
It’s a throwaway line in a longer talk and we probably shouldn’t make too much of it, but I will anyway. In five years time Facebook “will be definitely mobile,
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Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability
<span style="font-weight: 400;">An attack has been found and exploited in <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413">the...
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The 100:10:1 method – the heart of my game design process
This is the second post of a series on practical game-design techniques. Here’s the first. In my years designing games, my methods have evolved from Games-Randomly-Emerging-from-the-Inchoate…
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Long Names are Long
One smart thing Google does is rigorous code reviews. Every change, before you can land it, gets reviewed in at least two ways. First, someone on the team does a normal review to make sure the code does what it’s supposed to.
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Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm
If you are looking to synthesize the sound of a plucked string, there is an amazingly simple algorithm for doing so called the Karplus-Strong Algorithm. Give it a listen: KarplusStrong.wav Here it …
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Buffer Layoffs
Some tough news: Buffer has made 10 layoffs, 11% of the team. We want to share openly how we got here, the financial details and how we’re moving forward.
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The illegal city of Somerville
Zoning is complicated. It’s complicated on its own, with even small towns having dozens of pages of regulations and acronyms and often-inscrutable diagrams; and it’s complicated as a policy issue, with economists and lawyers and researchers bandying about regression lines and all sorts of claims about the micro and…
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Generative Models
This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they…
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Gone Full Unikernel
Unikernels, once a niche computing topic, have become a subject of intense interest and exploration. One particular evolution in this domain is “Going Full Unikernel.” Continue readingGone Full Unikernel
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Sub-10ms roundtrip audio latency on Android
The Superpowered Media Server solves Android's audio latency problems.
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PHP Sucks
I think PHP sucks, but not for the obvious reasons. Today I got into a mild discussion on twitter, sparked by the following tweet:
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Contextual Identities on the Web
The Containers Feature in Firefox Nightly enables users to login to multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously and gives users the ability to segregate site data for improved privacy and security. We all portray different characteristics of ourselves in different situations. The way I speak with my son is much…
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Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router
Building an Elm demo app to show how Elm can be used in a project.
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Announcing Google Research, Europe
Posted by Emmanuel Mogenet, Head of Google Research, EuropeGoogle’s ongoing research in Machine Intelligence is what powers many of the products be...
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Guccifer 2.0: DNC's servers hacked by a lone hacker
Worldwide known cyber security company CrowdStrike announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers had been hacked by “sophisticated” hacker groups. I’m very please…
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Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database
Digital Democracy is now Awana Digital
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ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t
Prologue (2006) I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of their DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple…
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Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
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Nuclear Power in China
China has become largely self-sufficient in reactor design and construction, as well as other aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. The strong impetus for nuclear power in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants.