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File Descriptor Transfer over Unix Domain Sockets
Yesterday, I read a phenomenal paper on how disruption free release at Facebook.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,290 posts.
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Query-Based Compiler Architectures
What a query-based compiler is and what they are good for.
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DARPA’s 23 Challenge Questions
Research in Scientific Computing in Undergraduate Education2020117 points30 commentsMath & Algorithms details
DARPA challenges The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued 23 mathematical challenges. DARPA says the solution of any one of these challenges would have the effect of “…
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No More Misunderstandings: Paraphrasing – When, Why, and How
Paraphrasing - When, Why, and How
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402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
Micropayments systems are doomed. Here is why.
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Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
Another day, another HackerNews discussion about hiring being broken. The most recent one I saw was triggered by a blog post by the formidable Aline Lerner (disclaimer: Aline is a friend and we col…
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Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
I bought a Pinebook Pro in the first batch, and have been using it on and off for several months now. Some people I know wanted to know if ...
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Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Graham's recent essay Great Hackers . His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON .
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Ambitions for a Unix Shell
As discussed in the January blog roadmap , I want to concretely describe a reduced Oil language , and see if we can get it "done" in 2020.
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How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
From a friend, a few days ago: We were supposed to be in Vienna today for a short vacation, but the city is at high risk and we […]
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What if the Trinity test had failed?
If the first nuclear weapons test had been a flop, would the world be better or worse off?
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A Year with the Surface Go
AndreGarzia.com website
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Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (2009)
The chart classifies programming paradigms according to their kernel languages. Kernel languages are ordered according to the creative extension principle: a new concept is added when it cannot be encoded with only local transformations. Two languages that implement the same paradigm can nevertheless have very…
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Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Repairability
My Macbook Pro I have a Macbook pro retina 15 inch, that I bought in 2016. A few days back, the battery started bulking up and the laptop ha...
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Covid and Cascading Collapses
I’ve been looking at this chart a lot over the past few weeks.
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Short term usability is not the same as long term usability
When designing almost any piece of code or other functionality, the issue of usability often comes up. Most of the time these discussions go...
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Crows’ ability to discriminate between languages
That crows can recognize humans faces (and other physical attributes) has been a staple of our experiences with them for thousands of years. It’s part of what has allowed them to take s…
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Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014)
Sketches of an interactive arithmetic for programming by Glen Chiacchieri.
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Interview like an asset, not a beggar
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service. The true question behind every interview is "How can you help us?"
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Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (1999)
(Written in July 1999 for www.linuxworld.com ; permanently installed now in Web Tools Review )
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The Making of Stunt Island
It is human nature to pick a hero, place it on a pedestal, and forget everybody else. We have limited memory after all so remembering only a few things may not be a choice but a necessity. If you were to ask players for the name of a game made in the 90s, unmistakably Mario, Sonic, and DOOM would come up over and over…
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Unlocking eBPF power
Spiral journey over kubernetes, cloud and devops world.
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Barebones WebGL in 75 lines of code
Modern OpenGL, and by extension WebGL, is very different from the legacy OpenGL I learned in the past. I understand how rasterization works, so I’m comfortable with the concepts. However, every tutorial I’ve read introduced abstractions and helper functions that make it harder for me to understand which parts are…
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Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
Vocabulary is a tool for creating and categorising mental models. Here’s how it works and how to leverage it.