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Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,981 posts.
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The value of an engineering degree
Six years ago, in the summer of 2008, NYU and Polytechnic University came together to create NYU Poly, NYU’s engineering school in downtown Brooklyn. When I saw the news, I called NYU President John Sexton and asked for a meeting. He agreed and I went down to Washington Square to meet with him. I told […]
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What's wrong with systemd
So many weird little demands on time, mostly spinning out of the Signal groups set up to counter ICE and now being used for general community stuff.
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references
In the last post I introduced unique pointers. This time I will talk about another kind of pointer which is much more common in most Rust p...
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What is Meteor.js?
Learn more about what Meteor.js is...
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The R language, for programmers
Some things about the R programming language that programmers coming from other languages are likely to trip over.
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The Etherkiller (2002)
This led to some general discussion that this particular device really is in a class of devices, now called the "killers", which need to be made.
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D’s Garbage Collector Problem
One of the biggest issues with Higgs, the JIT compiler I’m working on, is that the compilation times are too slow. The performance of the compiled machine code that Higgs produces is now fair…
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Hermitage: Testing the “I” in ACID
tl;dr: I have created a test suite for comparing the transaction isolation levels in different databases. I did this as background research for my book . This post explains why.
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Working on The Witness: The Nebraska Problem
The search for a “random” distribution with the most favorable qualities for ground cover.
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TLS Symmetric Crypto
At this time last year, the TLS world was mostly running on RC4-SHA and AES-CBC. The Lucky 13 attack against CBC in TLS had just been published and I had spent most of January writing patches for OpenSSL and NSS to implement constant-time CBC decoding. The RC4 biases paper is still a couple of week away, but it's…
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Grumpy Gamer – SCUMM Notes from the C64
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Your language sucks
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos , I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in li...
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Compiler Design in C
Compiler Design in C Download a copy! My book Compiler Design in C is now, unfortunately, out of print. You can download a complete copy, with the above button (pdf 19.1Mb OCR/Searchable—thanks to Marvin Hernández for adding the OCR). If you don’t want to print it out (the book is 984 pages long), you can…
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The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management
Back in 2014, this article was intended to draw attention to several serious problems with babl/GEGL/GIMP color management, all of which revolved around the idea of using sRGB chromaticities to edit non-sRGB images. If you peruse the GIMP developers' list and users' list for the months of October and November 2014…
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Bash 'shellshock' scan of the Internet
NOTE: malware is now using this as their User-agent. I haven't run a scan now for over two days. I'm running a scan right now of the I...
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How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application
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Adventures in Wearable Electronics – Making a Light-up Dress
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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The Skip
At the time when I was coming of age musically, when we listened to music on LPs, the listening experience was very different than it is today. For one, if you didn’t like the currently playi…
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Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010)
The Riemann zeta function $latex {\zeta(s)}&fg=000000$ is defined in the region $latex {\hbox{Re}(s)>1}&fg=000000$ by the absolutely convergent series $latex \displaystyle \zeta(s) = \su…
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