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Get your loved ones off Facebook
I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read b
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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The Advantage of Being a Little Underemployed
To realize how outdated the five-day, 40-hour workweek is, you have to know where it came from.
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HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
Today, we deployed HTTPS by default on Stack Overflow. All traffic is now redirected to https:// and Google links will change over the next few weeks. The ac...
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Laptop Ban a Reaction to X-Ray Equipment Stolen by ISIS
On March 21st, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered airlines flying to the U.S. out of 10 airports, mostly in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, to refuse to transport …
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Little Lisp interpreter
Little Lisp is an interpreter that supports function invocation, lambdas, lets, ifs, numbers, strings, a few library functions, and lists. I wrote it for a l...
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How a 64k intro is made
The demoscene is about producing cool real time works (as in “runs on your computer”) called demos . Some demos are really small, say 64 kilobytes or less, and these are called intros . The name comes from “crack intros”. So an intro is just a demo that’s small.
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Writing a second video game for the Micro:bit in Rust
I recently published a story about bitflyer, a simple game for the BBC micro:bit.
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SaaS Pricing (2013)
SaaS pricing is a mystery to many developers. Here is how to do it better.
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Linux utils that you might not know
I’ve used Linux as my primary operating system for well over ten years, yet I still stumble upon things that are completely unknown to me. For example...
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How Powerful Are Microsoft Azure’s Free Jupyter Notebooks?
For a while now, Microsoft have provided a free Jupyter Notebook service on Microsoft Azure. At the moment they provide compute kernels for Python, R and F# providing up to 4Gb of memory per sessio…
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Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
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Topics in Core Mathematics at Graterford Prison
Topics in Core Mathematics sounds like the blandest possible math class. The course title is meant to convey the one important aspect of the class for many students: this class fulfills the core math requirement for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Box checked. However, the advantage of blandness is that it…
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People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2016)
Understanding the features vs benefits phenomenon is one of the hardest things to do in product marketing. Here're some examples for features vs benefits products
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Postgres performance analysis resulted in a 10x improvement in CPU use
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Mono 5.0 Ships with Concurrent Garbage Collector
In Mono 5.0 we are shipping a new operation mode for our Garbage Collector: Concurrent Garbage Collection.
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Writing a lexer in Go with Lexmachine (2016)
This article is about lexmachine , a library I wrote to help you write great lexers in Go. If you are looking to write a golang lexer or a lexer in golang this article is for you.
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Engineering management lessons (2014)
Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. Here is a short guide to get you started.
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Coinlist
Some interesting developments that we have been working on came public yesterday. Protocol Labs, a company that builds blockchain-based protocols laid out its ambitious roadmap and finally got around to announcing the seed investment USV and others made in it last year. My partner Brad Burnham wrote a blog post on…
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Learning to break ciphers
Every now and then, I read a question about learning how to break ciphers, or more generally how to become a cryptographer/cryptologist. From my viewpoint, the most important part of learning this…
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Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime
Now that the CoreCLR is open-source we can do fun things, for instance find out if it’s possible to add new IL (Intermediate Language) instruction to the runtime.
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Introducing zetcd
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P: A programming language for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
To address the challenges of asynchronous computation, we have developed the P programming language for modeling and specifying protocols.
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An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling
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Making a Neural Synthesizer Instrument
In a previous post, we described the details of NSynth (Neural Audio Synthesis), a new approach to audio synthesis using neural networks. We hinted at furthe...
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Scastie: use any Scala compiler and Scala library in the browser
The Scala Center team is extremely happy to announce that Scastie is out of beta! That means anyone can use Scala in the browser over at scastie.scala-lang.org !