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High Performance Z80 Emulation
…wherein I talk about my latest Z80 emulation adventures.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,763 posts.
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The making of Exchange, a new typeface
The search for a more flexible and effective relationship with typographic history.
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1.1B Taxi Trips on BrytlytDB 2.0
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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What if AI is a failed dream?
A collection of thoughts, ideas and unsolicited opinion from Made by Many: articles, reflections, talks and interviews from the people doing the work.
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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)
Discover direct, fluff-free relationship advice, conflict resolution strategies, and insights on modern manhood from Jayson Gaddis. Build a marriage worthy of your ambition.
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Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
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Go 2016 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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Dart in 2016: Fastest growing language at Google, 2nd fastest in TIOBE
Dart was the fastest growing programming language at Google in 2016 with millions of lines of code written. It also made it to TIOBE Index ...
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Regarding Marcus Hutchins aka MalwareTech
Brief background
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I Stopped Attending Programming Meet-ups
I’ve decided I’m no longer attending programming meet-ups. The reason I’m no longer attending is because they’re free.
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OS/2 2.0, Summer ’91 Edition
In a fascinating example of poor timing, disk images of OS/2 2.0 pre-release level 6.605 from July/September 1991 were missing for over 25 years, only to show up literally one day after after the 25th anniversary of the OS/2 2.0 release (big thanks to a very helpful reader!).
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“Security problems are primarily just bugs”
People are debating this email from Linus Torvalds (maintainer of the Linux kernel). It has strong language, like: Some security people ...
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Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros
A while ago I read John Novaks great rant on how hard and annoying it can be to do something as simple as extending a cross-platform application with the simplest of GUIs. Or as he puts it:
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Vision Insurance Is Making Glasses More Expensive
A geeky optician lending his expertise and interests to everyone who wears eyewear.
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Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming
Are you arguing that undefined behaviour should not be a thing in, e.g., C? It sounds like you’re claiming that the fabled sufficiently smart compiler could take code in a C-like language with no UB, and emit something equivalent to what a C compiler would produce given equivalent input in C that correctly avoids UB…
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Cryptocurrency Evolution
Bitcoin has already undergone several forks. A fork defines a moment in time when a specific digital currency gets split into two different currencies. A couple months ago, a Bitcoin fork created Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Another fork just created Bitcoin Gold last week. Segwit 2x will follow next month.
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16 Years with IPv6
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
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Apple and LaTeX
Apple is apparently not eating its own dogfood when it comes to equations.
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Making More Outside The App Store
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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Insert D-Wave Post Here
In the two months since I last blogged, the US has continued its descent into madness. Yet even while so many certainties have proven ephemeral as the morning dew—the US’…
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The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
We are living through a crisis of attention that is now widely remarked upon, usually in the context of some complaint or other about...
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