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Fast enough VMs in fast enough time
Updated (February 07 2013): If you enjoy this article, you may also find the more academically-inclined article The Impact of Meta-Tracing on VM Design and Implementation interesting.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,221 posts.
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Hash-based Signatures: An illustrated Primer
Over the past several years I’ve been privileged to observe two contradictory and fascinating trends. The first is that we’re finally starting to use the cryptography that researchers h…
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The Rejection Book: Good luck, bad luck, who knows?
I've been rejected by a lot of people and organizations over the years. The number of my rejections became so comical, that my parents put together a book. This was a special book, since many of...
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Every bug/quirk of the Windows resource compiler (rc.exe), probably
Fuzz testing decades-old software can turn up some curious behaviors
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Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
It all started with a project I was working on called “Fixing Gran Trak 10” about the first car racing arcade video game from 1974. I had completed the electrical repairs and was trying to intervie…
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Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. (Okay…
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Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features
Python is my favourite programming language. Since I discovered it in 2004, programming in Python became my favourite hobby. I've tried to l...
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What comes after Git
Git was born from the collaboration problems in the Linux kernel. Nearly a decade later, new problems arose when Kubernetes (the operating system of the cloud) brought open-source collaboration to a new level.
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Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)
The struggle for distinction
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GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language
When the machines make machines, we're in a new world.
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The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
I started a new job recently so I had the opportunity to get one of the new M1 MacBooks, I decided to go with the Air. The reviews have been very positive and I’m here to tell you: it is indeed an amazing device. The performance feels a lot better than my MacBook Pro 16”, which is only a year old and about 3x the…
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Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
Glimpse NX didn't have a great solution for missing menu, but this new 3D CAD application has
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Moving Away from Python 2
About a month ago I tweeted this: Thought: get the maintainers of a bunch of big Python libraries to sign something saying that they WILL drop Python 2.7 support in 2020.— Aaron Meurer (@asmeurer) Mar
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I used to know how to write in Japanese
Somehow, though, I can still read it
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All of the vehicle license plates available in America
States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations, professions, sports teams, causes and other groups.
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How about trailing commas in SQL?
Anecdotally, this might be the most requested feature in SQL: Allow some trailing commas.
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David Rosenthal on cryptocurrencies
I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford's EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers...
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Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books
A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?
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YouTube addiction, one month sober
Today marks my first month clean from YouTube . It was the right choice, but that's not to say it was easy.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad. This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective. Most graduate…
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Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point
An overview of all the tools, standards and special languages used in the automotive industry where the official language is actually C.
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Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective
fhur's blog
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Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker
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My favorite interview question
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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My favorite things that are coming with Julia 1.0
If I were more musically talented I would be writing a song ♫ Arguments that are destructured, and operator characters combine-ed; Loop binding changes and convert redefine-ed… ♫ no none of that, please stop.
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Little Things That Made Amiga Great
To most people, the Amiga is probably synonymous with the Amiga 500 and that machine was, above all, a video game: something into which you plonked 3.5" floppy disks that transported you to strange, wonderful worlds and hours of fun. To this group, the gamers, the operating system wasn't important. They probably…
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Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
(There is also a Russian language version of this post available, translated and published by SoftDroid on 2017-04-12.) I love Twitter. I love that by following certain people, my timeline has become a stream of interesting and entertaining information. I love that sometimes I am able to fit my little publication just…