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Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
How CEO Tobi Lütke Applied StarCraft Gaming Strategies & Concepts To Build Shopify
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,668 posts.
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Travel without a phone
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services
I've recently read about a couple of boycotts trying to call attention to Amazon's bad labor practices. The most recent of these boycotts hopes to lead a boycott on Amazon's induced buying holiday "Prime Day", in solidarity with striking workers in several fulfillment centers in Spain. I support anyone fighting for a…
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Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2017)
In this post we describe and demonstrate a neat trick to exfiltrate sensitive information from your browser using a surprising tool: your smartphone or laptop’s ambient light sensor. In short: 1. We provide background about the light sensor API and current discussions to expose it more broadly to websites.
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The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself
Here’s a common pattern that I see play out very often in software teams: There is a need to change the existing system behavior to accomplish new functionality. The software engineer l…
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“Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (2016)
"Rule the Waves" is hard to buy, hard to look at, and hard to play. But you should play it anyway, because the actual game is so good it's worth it
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Can We Catch the Next ‘Oumuamua?
Awesome plan! But, how frequently are suitable targets expected to inter the inner solar system that would also be able to be reached from Earth’s L2 point?
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The Mortgaging of Sierra Online
The Sierra Online of the 1980s and very early 1990s excelled at customer relations perhaps more than anything else. Through the tours of their offices (which they offered to anyone who cared to make the trip to rural Oakhurst, California), the newsletter they published (which always opened with a folksy editorial from…
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Towards a Better Pythagorean Cup
There was an article on Hacker News the other day by David Richeson entitled Make Your Own Pythagorean Cup . A Pythagorean cup is a cup with a built-in siphon. Supposedly invented by Pythagoras, the cup functions just like an ordinary cup as long as it is only filled to a certain level. If anyone gets greedy and tries…
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Capturing PAL video with an SDR, and a few dead ends
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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A completely rebuilt, digitally-enabled Polaroid SX-70 camera
A completely rebuilt digital Polaroid SX-70 camera
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Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (2014)
Turbinia - An Uninvited Guest
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SweRV – An Annotated Deep Dive of the SweRV RISC-V Core
Every 6 months, the RISC-V consortium organizes a two day workshop where various companies and research entities present work that is one way or the other related to RISC-V.
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Visualization techniques for different data sets
Visualizations are awesome.
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What did Google+ get right?
Google+ got some things awfully wrong. They lost and they were hated. But many of us thought it was the best social network that existed...
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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)
Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…
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Combining finances
A guide to shared finances after marriage
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Why I prefer objects over switch statements
A different approach to handle your conditions...
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Apple knows 5G is about infrastructure, not mobile phones (2018)
5G is overkill for phones but that's okay because for carriers it is really about destroying broadcast and cable TV, ISPs, and telephone companies. One network to rule them all.
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Cross-Laminated Timber
Cross Laminated Timber (or CLT for short) is a structural building material that can replace concrete and steel in new building construction. I wrote about CLT back in April and mentioned that the Gotham Gal and I are in the process of making two CLT buildings right now. The paper version of the New York […]
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Building a hackable editor in the browser
Warning: All of this doesn’t really follow any best practices for working with html, css or javascript - on the contrary: what we will be doing may look horrible to some people, and rightfully so - so you may not want to try those things at work just yet.
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Who can I hire to hack me?
I use a password manager. I have 2FA set up on everything. When an organisation asks me to set a recovery question, I generate a 32 character passphrase. I don't use my mother's maiden name or my first pet's birthday on anything sensitive. I monitor my email addresses for breaches, and I regularly check my credit…
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The C language is purely functional (2009)
Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell
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The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce
AWS EC2 Secret sauce. How AWS provisions Windows EC2 in the cloud. Instance Pool.