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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,098 posts.
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Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex
Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe.
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The Disappointing Surprise From Apple
Fully custom responsive WordPress development using semantic and accessibility coding practices for web developments agencies and designers.
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#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers
Navigation: #1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers - You MUST Deny It ASAP. #2 top secret(will be published on April 1) #3 Another Ra...
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The Sex Tape Litmus Test
My approach focuses on nervous system regulation and uses somatic awareness and emotional embodiment to help you get out of your own way and grow beyond unhelpful patterns.
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Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
I’m in the middle of taking the Coursera Machine Learning class -- which has been amazingly good -- and it recently covered how one could implement a machine-learning algorithm to power driverless cars.
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True Scala complexity
Due to the recent php2shell vulnerability , to save time and effort for both users and maintainers alike, and out of an overabundance of caution, all Scripts sites have had PHP (php-cgi) disabled until a patch is available and backported.
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Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5
I have the bloody habit to look for cheap deals on some websites and today I’ve got the featured offer to buy more than 1 million Facebook entries containing Full Name, e-mail and Facebook profile URL. I make a quick check over the data and surprise, surprise: most of them are real and I even know some of those users.
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Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
As with Instagram, the change does not seem to have affected sharing outwards, but will impede users’ ability to follow friends that they may know from Twitter. This is part of Twitter turning the screws on sharing information about the users of its network out to other services like Instagram (and by extension…
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The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
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Things I like about programming in Go
I recently wrote a blog post for CloudFlare about our use of Go . I thought it was worth following up with a bit more detail about why I li...
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Nobel Prize winning biochemist says all biofuels are nonsense
Similar posts from ClimateSanity Taking Measure of Biofuel Limits 9/24/2009 Biofuels Leading to Disasters 12/28/2011 Hartmut Michel won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on photosynthesis. …
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HBO No Go
I put the awesome HBO GO app on the family's iPad yesterday and tried to Airplay into our family room TV. I got audio on the TV but not video. I thought I was doing something wrong. So I rebooted everything and tried again. Same thing. So I did a web search on the topic […]
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Programmer Time Translation Table
An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number. 1 day converts to 3.14 weeks. He had learned the hard way that programmers are bad at estimating times . To get a more precise…
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Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software com
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Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (2010)
Studying how an individual's thoughts, emotions, ideas, and aspirations are formed through their interactions with others is the focus of social psychology as
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Many Core processors: Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong
David Ungar is "an out-of-the-box thinker who enjoys the challenge of building computer software systems that work like magic and fit a user...
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How To Crash A Party
In college I would crash expensive parties (even got to hang with Elton John & Lance Armstrong) with a few tricks I developed. I demonstrate them inside: