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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?
The history of the Witness Protection Program is full of Hollywood-worthy intrigue. It also challenges our assumptions about crime and identity.
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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed in a Large Corporation
I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a cu…
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The MS-DOS Showcase
2,400 MS-DOS games and programs have gone live on the Internet Archive. The full collection is here and the games-specific section (basically all of them, for now) is here. But wait before you clic…
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Bell inequality violation finally done right
A few weeks ago, Hensen et al., of the Delft University of Technology and Barcelona, Spain, put out a paper reporting the first experiment that violates the Bell inequality in a way that closes off…
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How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS
As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales.
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HTTP/2 for TCP/IP Geeks
I attended a TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm meetup yesterday and did a talk about HTTP/2. Below is the slide set, but as usual it might not be entirely self explanatory... HTTP/2 - for TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm from Daniel Stenberg
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The State of Probabilistic Programming
For two weeks last July, I cocooned myself in a hotel in Portland, OR, living and breathing probabilistic programming as a “student” in the probabilistic programming summer school run by DARPA. The…
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Categories for Programmers: The Yoneda Lemma
This is part 15 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Representable Functors. See the Table of Contents. Most constructions in category theory are generalizations of results from other more sp…
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How I Got a Job in Web Development
The long, honest story of how I taught myself web development and turned it into a career.
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May Bayes Theorem Be with You
The frequentist paradigm enjoys the most widespread acceptance forstatistical analysis. Frequentist concepts such as confidence intervalsand p-values dominat...
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HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block All HTTP Requests" in Chrome. If you already use...
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Inside Ember.js FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node
As we announced in the inaugural blog post in our Inside FastBoot series, we have begun working on giving Ember.js developers the ability to run their apps in Node.js. Once complete,...
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Tiny Docker Operating Systems
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s MRI implementation for hash table lookups: Hash tables are used all over MRI, and not just for the Hash object; global variables…
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