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Reversing the effects of long programming sessions
Programming for long periods is like walking a high tight rope for a really, really long period of time, or at least I imagine it is... ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,330 posts.
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Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
From Java 11 its time to think beyond Oracle's JDK. Time to appreciate the depth of the ecosystem built on OpenJDK. Here is a list of some ...
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The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe
In every day life we all do our calculations, whether for the taxman, our purchases, paying the household bills or in some academic discipline, using the place value decimal number system. It consi…
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AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality
It is no surprise that a judge allowed the AT&T-Time Warner acquisition to proceed given the government’s poor case; the question is if a better case could have been made. What is ultima…
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Running JRuby on the Graal JIT
Hello, friends! Long time no blog!I'm still here hacking away on JRuby for the benefit of Rubyists everywhere, usually slogging through compatibility fixes and new Ruby features. However with the release of JRuby 9.2, we've caught up to Ruby 2.5 (the current release) and I'm spending a little time on performance.I…
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Making Light of the “Dark Web”
I'll start this post where I start many of my talks - what does a hacker look like? Or perhaps more specifically, what do people think a hacker looks like? It's probably a scary image, one that's a bit mysterious, a shady character lurking in the hidden depths
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From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN
I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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Problems with CSVs (2016)
Much of my professional work for the last 10+ years has revolved around handling, importing and exporting CSV files. CSV files are frustratingly misunderstood, abused, and most of all underspecified. While RFC4180 exists, it is far from definitive and goes largely ignored.
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How do plutonium-powered pacemakers work?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping
There have been many announcements about what would be the next generation Intel Xeon platform with integrated FPGA, also on this blog. Now Intel has finally announced that they are shipping their …
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Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee
Draft: v1.1 | Posted: 1/9/2018 | Updated: 1/29/2018 | confidence of success: 85% | estimated time to completion: 1/15/2018 | importance: High
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Examples of marketing tactics
Learn how the world's fastest growing companies have hacked their way to success with innovative products, viral promotions and ingenious marketing campaigns. [6500 words]
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What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
The question on the lips of everyone in the Linux community is, "What if Linus Torvalds (affectionately known to the trade press as 'Linux Torvalds') gets hit by a bus?" Reams of virtual paper have been wasted on idle speculation about the results of what is a fairly simple experiment. We decided it was high time…
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The Power to Revoke Lies with the Certificate Authority
For those that read my blog often you may have seen me talk about EV certificates before. From a technical perspective there are many things that I don't agree with about EV certificates and from a non-technical perspective there are many things I don't like about the
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APFS encrypted plaintext password found in another log file
UPDATE: PLEASE HELP ME TEST At some point you just need to stop looking and be blissfully ignorant...this was not one of those days. In and update to my previously updated blog article , I have found another instance where the plaintext password was written to system logs. Thi
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Making a low level Linux debugger, part 3: our first program
This continues a series where we make a debugger and live editor for (re)creating assembly and C programs.
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