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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,497 posts.
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Solving the regex of madness, and snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)
This infamous answer [https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7488] on StackOverflow have reached meme status. The question is about finding opening tags in XHTML using a regular expression, and the answer makes it abundantly clear that this is not possible - and you will surely go mad if you try. The
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Unpacking Interview Questions
A series sharing some of the questions I use when I interview for technical roles. I’ll unpack the question, when to ask it, and how to evaluate answers.
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Why you should NOT use NativeScript
It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App.
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Chrome client “variations” can be used to identify you (2020)
Until now I used Chrome with a few settings tweak like disabling sending usage statistics, uBlock origin, no crash reports and so on.
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Routing the Technical Interview
The interviewer couldn’t help but notice her name, Nephele . It sounds Greek. But he didn’t ask, not wanting to get off on the wrong foot with the promising candidate. He made a mental note to look up the name afterwards.
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Things to do before and after you write code
The most effective engineers I’ve worked with were effective not just because of how they wrote code, but because of things they did when they were not writing code. Here’s my (growing)…
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Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels
To: Oversight Board Good day, My name is Igor Petrov, I am an independent historian. The list of my publications, including those for Cambridge University Press, is available at https://independent.academia.edu/IgorPetrov40 On August 6, 2021, whilst conducting archival research and working with…
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R, OpenMP, MKL, Disaster
The answer should be something close to ALPHA , i.e. 0.01 . What R was printing out was weird numbers like 1e-10 .
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Raspberry Pi Floppy Controller Board
If there’s one criticism I hear more often than any other about the pi, it’s “ I wish my Raspberry Pi had a floppy drive “. It’s really shocking that the pi doesn’t have the ubiquitous 34-pin floppy header that we all know and love. How else are you supposed to interface your Tandon TM100-2A or your Teac FD-55BR or…
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Debugging Lisp (2015)
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest
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Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (1969)
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Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process
Authoritarian muscle memory and the twists and turns of lying
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Linux Networking: MAC VLANs and Virtual Ethernets
This website is for sale! pocketnix.org is your first and best source for information about pocketnix. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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BGP in a Nutshell
PhD student at University of Texas at Austin 🤘. Doing systems for ML.
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Turkey's Financial Crisis
Earlier this week, Mohamed El-Erian was lost for words.
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What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
In this text I will explain what makes OpenBSD secure by default when you install it. Do not take this for a security analysis, but more like a guide to help you understand what is done by OpenBSD to have a secure environment. The purpose of this text is not to compare OpenBSD to other OSes but to say what you can…
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How Laravel Livewire works
<p>The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP code and everything just works.</p> <p>A...
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Does the Universe Have Higher Dimensions? Part 1
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The Dig
As you would imagine, a lot of the things you can do in a comedy game just don’t work when trying to remain serious. You can’t cover up a bad puzzle with a funny line of self-referential dialog. Er, not that I ever did that. But anyway, it was also a challenge to maintain the tone and some semblance of a dramatic arc…
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Difficult math is about recognizing patterns
Jeff Bezos tells a great story about the smartest guy he knew at Princeton. He and a classmate were working on a really tough partial differential equation and getting nowhere. They spent 3 hours on the problem and gave up.
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Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs
Cattle not pets The majority of AWS EC2 I need to operate these days are members of Kubernetes clusters. For remote access to them I’m more commonly authenticating to the Kube API to spawn a privileged ephemeral debugger pod rather than accessing the host directly. I have little need for host access even for the…
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PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
The PiDP-11 is a modern replica of Digital Equipment Corporation’s influential PDP-11 minicomputer. Before, we had a computer on every desk and in every home–and long before they were in every pocket–computers were large, intimidating, and locked in special rooms at universities and corporations. The PDP series paved…