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Pete Davies: The ‘Invadar’ Arcade Collection
One of the very early committed arcade collectors here in the UK was a guy called Pete Davies. Known on the arcade forums as Invadar, he was by all accounts, very well liked. I can’t say that…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,307 posts.
1952
A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley
A tour of Silicon Valley
1953
On the Road to Recap
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” By…
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I Am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He Is Wrong About Women in Tech
My name is Amilia St. John and I am the daughter of Alex St. John. Yes, that one. For those not following the horrific toddler meltdown my…
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Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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Security Risks of TSA PreCheck
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA’s PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which seeks to verify an applicant’s identity. We know verification is a challenge: A 2011 Government Accountability Office report…
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Moving away from HDF5
Cyrille Rossant,
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HTTPS' massive speed advantage
I tweeted this the other day, and the internet was not pleased: > HTTPS is slow. No - wait - is it HTTP that's slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc [https://t.co/cfnYOpXMWc] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 8, 2016 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/751317949349130240] In fact, a
1965
When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination
Part of a recent assignment for one of my classes involved calculating the Fibonacci sequence both recursively and iteratively and measuring the speed of each method. (BONUS: For a fun diversion, here is a paper I wrote about using the Golden Ratio, which is closely related to the Fibonacci sequence, as a base for a…
1966
Spikey Spheres
A word of warning ... I'm presenting here something called an analogy. It's not perfect, it has problems, it's not exact, but there are ways in which it can aid your thinking. I'm giving a way of visualising high-dimensional spheres, a way that has its limitations, but which can help avoid making mistakes based on…
1967
The Elixir of concurrency
Elixir is a fairly young language that was born when José and a few Rails developers tried to create a modern language optimized for concurrent, distributed, lightweight processes They wanted a modern Ruby-like syntax with a well-tested process ma
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“Write Every Day” Is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects
A Flawed Axiom Write every day. If you’ve ever considered professional writing, you’ve heard this advice. Stephen King recommends it in his instructional memoir, On ... Read more
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I made a cheap home motion sensor and controller
After designing my first PCB , I went on a designing spree. It turns out that making PCBs (printed circuit boards, basically a piece of plastic that includes all the connections of your components in it. It helps make your project smaller and cut down on the amount of wires floating around) is so enjoyable, I’m PCBing…
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 9: tracing a crash through software and hardware
Last week, after months of restoration, we finally got the vintage Xerox Alto computer to boot ( details ) and run programs. However, so...
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Porting Day of the Tentacle to Linux
Cheese talks to himself (about Hive Time finances and…2016116 points24 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Cheese Talks: A website about games and game related topics, featuring interviews, articles and neat visualisations.
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XKCD's StackSort Implemented in a Vim Regex
Which is the first answer to the first question if you search for 'sort a list' on Stack Overflow (which was answered by Devin Jeanpierre ).
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Making an MSX font
I figured, for this and future posts I have planned about MSX, that I wanted an MSX font face. I browsed the web a bit for one and found nothing that I liked...
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Perceptrons – the most basic form of a neural network
A Go implementation of a perceptron as the building block of neural networks and as the most basic form of pattern recognition and machine learning.
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The lack of a case against Python 3
A point-by-point rebuttal of Zed Shaw's Unicode and 2to3 complaints, with a trainer's view on which Python version to teach beginners in 2016.
1978
The Impact of Index Investing: A Follow-Up
The prior piece received a much stronger reaction than I expected. The topic is complicated, with ideas that are difficult to adequately convey in words, so I’m going to use this piece as a follow-up. I’m going to look at the specific example of the Tech Bubble, which is a clear case in which the broad adoption of a…
1979
Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo
Imagine a contest in which we are going to pit man against machine. But instead of measuring who is best in playing the game of ‘Go’ we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control…
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