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Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
Dr Craig Steven Wright: interdisciplinary researcher, founder and research leader. Qualifications, programme-building and research across economics, law, computing and digital scarcity.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,307 posts.
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The Technology Behind Making the Internet Archive into the Worlds Worst DVR
Take a moment to go back in time with me, back to when life was simpler and the biggest threat to humanity was Y2k…
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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
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V8: Behind the Scenes (December Edition)
Personal website of Benedikt Meurer, JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.
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We don't need a Tech Lead
When it comes to medium to large teams it is quite common the presence of a full-time tech lead responsible for important leadership activities such as:
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Critiques of the DHS and FBI’s Grizzly Steppe Report
On December 29 th , 2016 the White House released a statement from the President of the United States (POTUS) that formally accused Russia of interfering with the US elections, amongst other activities. This statement laid out the beginning of the US’ response including sanctions against Russian military and…
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Google recruitment mistakes: part 3
It has been a while that I have been contacted by a recruiter, and the last few ones were fairly decent conversations, where they made an effort to research me first, and even if they did not get everything right, they still listened, and we had a productive talk. But four days ago, I had another recruiter reach out…
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How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Signed integers are not allowed to overflow in C and C++, and this helps compilers generate better code. I was interested in how GCC is tak...
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AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
Serverless computing is the new buzzword. AWS describes Lambda (their implementation of Serverless) as the way how you’ll do things post containers. Go figure …
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The Computer Revolution Has yet to Happen
A combination of this “carry anywhere” device and a global information utility such as the ARPA network or two-way cable TV, will bring the…
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Exploding offers are bullshit
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers.
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A Letter to the Berlin Startup Scene
Dear Berlin Startup Scene,
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Plan9 from?
I have been saying for years that I am seeing the same phenomonon today that I saw thirty years ago when the microprocessor was first invented. At that time I argued a lot with all the computer scientists. They insisted that microprocessors were not really computers because they did not run the same software that…
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X86 Register Encoding
If you've ever look at the disassembly output for C or C++ code, you'll probably notice that there are a lot of push/pop instructions. And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the compiler prefers to use certain registers over others. In particular, compilers will prefer pushing "old" registers like…
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How I rolled my own explainer video for my Saas in a weekend
Being totally boot strapped, and non funded, I have to market my web app HR Partner, on the smell of an oily rag, plus do all the marketing…
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Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens
Many are going to ask, "What's so weird about this one corner?" and I'm here to answer. The end of Irving Avenue, where it meets Moffat Str...
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Hacked: Investigating an Intrusion on My Server
tl;dr I have received a nice “your server is sending spam” email on a Saturday morning, this is what happened next. As a foreword, this server is not holding critical information and his mostly used to host static content and maintain former projects. Basically this is what happens when you leave upgrade undone on…
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Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts
“” is published by John Hudson in VariableFonts.io.
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Music Language Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Moving Past the Scaling Myth - Discontinuous Transition in Process and Architecture
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Redefining Work
The most modern definition of work is “an exchange in which the participants benefit from the interaction”. Interestingly, cooperation is…
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My Letter to the Tor Project
N ow I a fourfold vision see A nd a fourfold vision is given to me T is fourfold in my supreme delight A nd three fold in soft Beulahs night A nd twofold Always. May God us keep F rom Single vision & Newtons sleep. — W illiam B lake
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That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA
You may ask yourself, “How did I get here?” - Talking Heads
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