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Don't Fly During Ramadan (2013)
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to fly from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. I was racially profiled, detained, and interrogated for hours.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,470 posts.
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Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime
I recently blogged about discontinuing Positron. I’m trying a different tack with a new experiment, codenamed qbrt, that reuses an existing Gecko runtime (and its existing APIs) while simplifying t…
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Coding Machines
After a minute Patrick came back with a small dusty cardboard box. Dave and I stared as Patrick opened it and pulled out a network switch, the old kind from the days when they were made with metal cases. He plugged in the power supply and carefully straightened out a CAT -5 cable to hook the switch up to our network…
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Reprogramming a $13 consumer wifi-enabled outlet
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Why is memory reclamation so important for lock-free algorithms?
As it so happens, object lifetime tracking (or Memory Reclamation as I prefer to call it) is the current most difficult open problem in sha...
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Why I’m leaving 18F
On Election Night 2016, a few hours before the results were fully in, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I’m staying at 18F”. I felt it was…
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Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine
After having fun reverse engineering the Comprehend Adventure game (Recomprehend) I was looking for a new DOS game reverse engineering project. Over the years various people have reversed a lot of …
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The practice of programming, 18 years later
Over the new year holiday time I had a chance to get away from it all, and snuck up to Finland to sit in a lodge on the Gulf of Finland, sip coffee, take saunas and read. I brought along a few books, the only programming one being Brian W …
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Why I left Japan after 10 years
It's a year to the day since I left Japan after exactly 10 years and 1 day of living there.
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How should you build a high-performance column store for the 2020s?
Though most relational databases (like MySQL) are "row oriented", in that they keep rows stored together... experience has taught us that pivoting the data arrow so that columns, and not rows, are stored together can be beneficial. This is an old observation that most experienced programmers know about as the…
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Using Rust in Windows
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The language of programming
Coding as a non-English speaker, or what Excel, Illustrator, and functional programming can teach us about names.
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Baking Bread with the Romans: Part II – Panis Quadratus
Taste the daily life of Romans with this recipe for Panis Quadratus: The infamous sectioned bread excavated at Pompeii and preserved for millenia after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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Command line interfaces are reified UIs
Many of the advantages of Command Line Interfaces can be attributed to the fact that they reify the user interaction: the interaction itself is made into som...
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Reducers, transducers and core.async in Clojure
This is a whirlwind tour of some of the cool new features that appeared in Clojure in the past few years. I find it fascinating how one good idea (reducers) morphed into another (transducers), and ended up mating with yet another, apparently unrelated concept (concurrent pipelines) to produce some really powerful…
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How do Ruby and Python profilers work?
How do Ruby & Python profilers work?
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Delete an inline function, save 794 kB
In the previous episode of “Simple Changes to Shrink Chrome” I discussed how deleting ‘const’ from a few key locations could lead to dramatic size savings, due to a VC++ com…
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Password reuse and credential stuffing
The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions
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How to Learn Hadoop for Free
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The Arrival of AI
What is artificial intelligence? Is it really any different than technology? In my estimation machine learning is truly something new, and the effects on society will be significant.
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What Challenges and Trade-Offs Do Optimising Compilers Face?
After immersing oneself in a research area for several years, it’s easy to feel like the heir to a way of looking at the world that is criminally underrated: why don’t more people want what I want? This can be a useful motivation, but it can also lead to ignoring the changing context in which most research sits. So…