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Fix your damned data races
Nathan Froyd recently wrote about how he has been using ThreadSanitizer to find data races in Firefox, and how a number of Firefox developers — particular in the networking and JS GC teams — have been fixing these.
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Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
There are many tech hubs in the United States (which this article will cover exclusively, sorry) but which ones are able to maintain low costs of living while also having high average salary for software developers? This post will address that question using a few calculations and data sourced from publicly available…
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EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System
San Francisco - The U.S. patent system is in crisis, but there are clear steps Congress and the White House can take to mitigate the impact of vague patents, patent trolls, and a weak legal process to protect competition and creativity, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) explains in a new...
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The Emterpreter: Run asm.js code before it can be parsed
I'm excited to announce a new Mozilla Research experiment: the Emterpreter, a pure-JavaScript interpreter that can start running large Emscripten-compiled apps faster than JavaScript engines can, giving developers control over ...
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Hacking Oklahoma State University's Student ID
READ THIS AFTER - a full follow up here: http://snelling.io/following-up-hacking-oklahoma-state-universitys-student-id
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Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture
If you’re like me and you wanted to go further with React, you more than likely would’ve checked out Flux , had a glance, closed the tab and then reassessed…
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On meta-design and algorithmic design systems
The rise of the meta-designer, and the use of algorithmic design systems.
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React Tips and Best Practices
I've spent a good deal of the past year working with React. I've written, refactored, and re-written many components in that time, and I've seen some best practices and anti-patterns emerge. I'm not going to get into what React is...
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Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OS X
I’ve been sitting on this information for some time, waiting to get more research done before I publish a post. But since word has come out about how Lenovo preloads what amounts to very bad spyware on their PCs, I thought I should also just go right ahead to spill the beans on the Mac.
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Apple invests €1.7B in renewable energy data centres in Denmark and Ireland
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Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" The saying (also known as Linus' law) doesn't say that the bugs are found fast and neither does it say who finds them. My version of the law would be much more cynical, something like: "eventually, bugs are found", emphasizing the 'eventually' part. (Jim Zemlin apparently…
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Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job
A structure where software architects work on a team separate from the development team can lead to dysfunction, reduced quality, and poor morale.
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“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tonight's Oscar win recognizes not only the incredible...
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Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
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ECMAScript 6
An overview of some of the most interesting features of ECMAScript 6, the latest version of the JavaScript specification.
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If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice
I assumed this was probably due to some shutdown corruption (though I rarely hit those in OS X). It just wouldn’t come back up and showed me some font error
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On Rust and Nim
I was recently contacted from a person I had never met before, asking for some comments on Nim and Rust. Since I have taken a little time to answer, I figured I might as well publish my thoughts.
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Internet of Crappy Things
There is a flood of appliances which could be connected - and some are connected - without a second thought as to whether or not it’s necessary or secure.
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Interviewing for a JavaScript Job
“The Carpenter” was a JavaScript programmer, well-known for a meticulous attention to detail and love for hand-crafted, exquisitely joined code. The Carpenter normally worked through personal referrals, but from time to time a recruiter would slip through his screen. One such recruiter was Bob Plissken. Bob was…