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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps
This was 2 1/2 years ago, what happened? Hunting down an app that fits the icon ad in my notification bar.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,129 posts.
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Update on Go 1.1 crypto performance
Some time ago I integrated OpenSSL's MD5, SHA1 and RC4 functions into Go because Go's native implementations were slow. The Go team has ma...
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Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research
I gave a brief talk last night at the Mozilla Research Party (first of a series), which happened to fall on the virtual (public, post-Easter-holiday) celebration of Mozilla’s 15th anniversary .
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Hardware startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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When Things Don't Work Out
I have said many times that early stage VC is a lot like baseball, if you get a hit one out of every three times, you are headed to the hall of fame. And if I look back over my career, and also over the track records of the firms and funds I have helped […]
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The Factoring Cryptopocalypse
The key detail to understand about the work in the Joux papers is that it is limited to solving discrete logarithm problems over fields of small characteristic . As interesting as the work is, mathematically, it should not be a great surprise to cryptographers: We've known for over a decade that small-characteristic…
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The NSA, Germany, and journalism
Look at the home pages of two major German news sites today, August 20. The Süddeutsche Zeitung talks about the government forcing the Guardian to destroy...
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Inside the ALU of the 8085 microprocessor
The arithmetic-logic unit is a fundamental part of any computer, performing addition, subtraction, and logic operations, but how it works i...
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Data Parallelism in Rust
Rust currently has very strong support for concurrency in the form of actors which exchange messages and do not share memory. However, there are many tasks for which actors are not a good fit. The unbounded lifetime of actors means that they cannot safely access stack-allocated memory from another task, even if it is…
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Don’t worry that your job is pointless
Software engineer and consultant with >15 years experience. Specializing in product engineering, design systems, and full-stack web development with React and TypeScript.
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How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases
Confession time: While I like to rationalize my blog’s recent silence with changing jobs and moving to a new city, the truth is, the single biggest drain on my free time lately has been Super…
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Why DRM is such a fucking stupid idea
Digital comics publisher JManga is collapsing . Two weeks from now you will no longer be able to "purchase" anything from them. Two months from now, anything that was "purchased" from them will cease to exist. If you spent hundreds of pounds in their store then, well, that's bad luck for you. This…
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Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons
Use share buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus in your blog, that does not expose your users to tracking, or violate their privacy. Use share links to do this
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Most TOR servers are vulnerable (NSA crackable)
After more revelations, and expert analysis, we still aren't precisely sure what crypto the NSA can break. But everyone seems to agree that...
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SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type
Every time we press a key in an interactive SSH session, the SSH Client sends that keystroke as a TCP segment to the SSH Server. Here is a Wireshark …
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