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Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
If you run a small SaaS business, you need a recurring billing solution, and there are a lot of options out there. There’s Chargify (from $149/month), Chargebee (from $99/month), Recurly (from $99/month), MoonClerk (from $15/month), etc. All of these platforms have features beyond recurring payments, which increases…
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Chrome 59 stable released
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 59 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ov...
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Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor ...
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Linux Bridge – How it works
developer. curious. learner
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How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor ...
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Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing
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Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead (2016)
Writing productivity courses and coaching programmes from the authors of Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit that Lasts
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Comma Separated Vulnerabilities
A Accenture oferece oportunidades que surgem a partir da disrupção tecnológica em todas as indústrias, em todos os países, todos os dias. Saiba mais!
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JSC loves ES6
Update: The previous version of this post showed performance data from ARES-6 version 1.0.
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Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss
Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss Stephen Arthur, Software Engineer Jun 1, 2017 Yelp has over 100 million user-generated photos ranging from pictures of dinners or haircuts, to one of...
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A peek under Bitcoin’s hood: Writing a client that can create a transaction
Sam Lewis is a Melbourne based geek who develops cool bits of code. He likes data, embedded stuff and AFL.
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How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (2016)
It's difficult to get the Windows Console to display Unicode characters, so here's a C++ WinForms program that will display the arguments in a TextBox.
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Faster, Better, Cheaper – The Art of Making Software
Nobody wants to deliver late, over-budget software. I don’t know a single software developer who wakes up in the morning and thinks “I’d like to do a rubbish job today. How can I cost my employer more money?” And yet, so many software projects don’t go well. And with every new project, there seems to be more and more…
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The IBM PC, Part 1 (2012)
What with the arrival of the category-defining Commodore VIC-20 and the dramatic growth of the British PC market, 1981 has provided us with no shortage of new machines and other technical developments to talk about. Yet I’ve saved the biggest event of all for last: the introduction of the IBM PC, the debut of an…
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Using select(2) the right way
This started out as a Hacker News comment about a blog post about select being fundamentally broken After that the same author wrote why epoll is broken as well. I don’t know what problem author is trying to solve but let’s pick this one:
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On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
We've all heard how expensive college is getting, along with plenty of criticism surrounding its value in a changing job market. Of course, there are many benefits beyond the monetary ones that should be considered when exploring college options, but for the purpose of this post I'm going to limit the scope and purely…
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A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust
One feature of Rust that I'm rather enamoured with is its macro system. Known as "macro by example" (MBE) or sometimes referred to as macro_rules , it provides you with an impressive amount of power whilst not allowing for the sort of evil tricks you can pull in C/C++.
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The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier
Over the past year or so, I’ve been loading up SyncTerm and logging in to various telnet-accessible BBSs here and there — nothing too consistent. But, thanks to a piece of kit released by Paul Rickards, over the past month … Continue reading →
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report
A project cannot survive for nearly fourteen years without making some difficult decisions. Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong, but, to be successful you have to learn from each and every one. One of the most difficult decisions made for Dolphin was the deprecation and removal of D3D9 despite it being the…
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Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: 1 – Vector Spaces
This article is a starting article in a series that is going to briefly skim through a good engineering textbook on linear algebra, making notes that help yo...
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Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case
There's been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancom case, in which the court found that the GPL was an enforceable contract. I'm going to try to explain the whole thing in clear terms for the legal layman.