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Twitter's Moment
Twitter has had a rough stretch, and most are pessimistic about its chances. I was previously, but I think the upside is looking much brighter than it did before this week.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,895 posts.
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Incorporating and accessing binary data into a C program
Blog about Ubuntu from a kernel engineer
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Top mathematical achievements of the last 5ish years, maybe
I have recently been going through my book Maths 1001 making updates for a forthcoming foreign edition (of which more in future). So I have been looking over mathematical developments since approxi…
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Real-time Drone object tracking using Python and OpenCV
After flying this past weekend (together with Gabriel and Leandro) with Gabriel's drone (which is an handmade APM 2.6 based quadcopter) in our town (Porto Alegre, Brasil), I decided to implement a tracking for objects using OpenCV and Python and check how the results would be using simple and fast methods like…
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WebRTC file sharing broker using Elixir Phoenix
WebRTC was created primarily for video and voice communication but it has the API to send raw binary data between two browsers as well. This opens up a lot of opportunities to create more peer to peer web application which are supported by modern browser. There are already a lot
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Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free
[An in-depth blog post by Daniel J. Bernstein, crossposted between the ECRYPT blog and the cr.yp.to blog .]
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Which topics get the upvote on Hacker News?
Hacker News is a popular social news website, mostly covering technology and startup topics. It relies on user submissions and moderation, where each submitted story can be upvoted and commented by users, which in term determines whether the story reaches the front page and how long it stays there.
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The pace of major breakthroughs has declined
One of the prevailing narratives of our time is that we are innovating our way into the future at break-neck speed. It’s just dizzying how quickly the world around us is changing. Technology is this juggernaut that gets ever bigger, ever faster, and all we need to do is hold on for the wild ride into the infinitely…
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Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
Ah the good old days. Stocks up $25, $50, $100 more in a single day. Day trading was all the rage. Anyone and everyone you talked to had a story about how they had made a ton of money on such and such a stock. In an hour. Stock trading millionaires were being minted by the week, if not sooner.
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I was interviewed by Fog Creek
I just had my minute of fame! I was just interviewed by Fog Creek on their development blog. Fog Creek is Joel Spolsky's company. We talked about how I got into software development, what I currently do, my current setup and my favorite books. I've been a lifetime fan of Fog Creek Software and it just feels so great…
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Interview Humiliation
(All these great ideas, but no one is listening? Check out my book: Convincing Coworkers )
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Opportunistic Encryption for Firefox
Firefox 37 brings more encryption to the web through opportunistic encryption of some http:// based resources. It will be released the week ...
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Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text
This is a companion to my post on the expression problem and tables . In this post I explore ways we can benefit from manipulating rich representations of programs (structural editing).
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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws
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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed in a Large Corporation
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cu…
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The MS-DOS Showcase
2,400 MS-DOS games and programs have gone live on the Internet Archive. The full collection is here and the games-specific section (basically all of them, for now) is here. But wait before you clic…
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Bell inequality violation finally done right
A few weeks ago, Hensen et al., of the Delft University of Technology and Barcelona, Spain, put out a paper reporting the first experiment that violates the Bell inequality in a way that closes off…
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HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks
I attended a TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm meetup yesterday and did a talk about HTTP/2. Below is the slide set, but as usual it might not be entirely self explanatory... HTTP/2 - for TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm from Daniel Stenberg
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