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Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA protects the websites you love from spam and abuse. So, when you go online—say...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Why my book can be downloaded for free
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Incident Report – DDoS Attack
On Monday, December 1st, 2014, we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack aimed at a customer's domain. Here is our full report.
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Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Resumes suck for hiring engineers
In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
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PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type
This post walks through a conversion funnel analysis that wouldn’t be possible in PostgreSQL 9.2
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Publish and Perish at Imperial College London: The Death of Stefan Grimm
Jump to follow-up This week’s Times Higher Education carried a report of the death, at age 51, of Professor Stefan Grimm: Imperial College London to ‘review procedures’ after death of academi…
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The Magpie Developer
I’ve often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. But we are too easily distracted by shiny new toys and playthings. I no longer
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Deep learning for chess
Erik Bernhardsson
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A Shark on the Network
DISCLAIMER: I do not condone monitoring network traffic with intent to spy or otherwise cause harm to people. My interest in the techniques described below is academic. I write in the hope that I can improve Internet security, or at least increase public awareness of vulnerabilities. If you are attempting to replicate…
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You could have invented Parser Combinators
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
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The Case for Slow Programming
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I progr…
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Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn't input the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you which one is actually incorrect.
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CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Microsoft acquires Acompli
I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Acompli, provider of innovative mobile email apps for iOS and Android. This acquisition is part of our company-wide effort to help people accomplish more with their mobile devices. This year we brought Office to the iPad and the iPhone, and we recently announced that…
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Chinese Mobile UI Trends
A summary of common idioms and visual language found in Chinese smartphone apps.
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How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment