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Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack
Some thoughts on Conway's Law and its effect on the software stack and open source ecosystem.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,838 posts.
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Airbnb in the Himalayas
Above my mountain-top cottage in a beautiful Himalayan village, the road ends and the forest begins. After sunset, flying squirrels come out. Leopards
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BPF port-based firewall for systemd services
The first post introduced the IPIngressFilterPath and IPEgressFilterPath feature for the upcoming systemd release 243 to support custom BPF programs as firewall for services. There was a simple example for a minimal BPF program written in C and how to load it for a systemd service. Then there was a standalone program…
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Researchers develop a new houseplant that can clean home air (2018)
Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.
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The Cloud and Open Source
This is eventually about the public cloud and Open Source, but — apologies in advance — takes an indirect and long-ish path.
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Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations
Get the latest news and features about smart home, Alexa Built-in, and Alexa Gadgets.
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Redox OS 0.5.0
The Redox official website
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x86 API Hooking Demystified (2012)
Simak Live Draw SDY Tercepat Hari Ini, Hasil Live SDY, Live Result Sidney, Dan Rekap Togel SDY Lengkap Dan Akurat Hanya Di Sini.
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King Alfred and India
[The following post has now been fully revised, expanded and published as C. R. Green, 'King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon Embassy to Sou...
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Stock Option Pricing Inference
I’m a stock market enthusiast 📈, so lately I have spent my spare time on the topic of stock option pricing, and I was curious to find out whether or not I could build a script that accurately reflected real market option prices. It turns out I came close, and learned a lot along the way, which I share in this article.
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Math versus Dirty Data
At Google, our organization designs, owns, and maintains a number of optimization models that automate the planning of Google’s datacenter growth and health. As is pretty standard in supply chain optimization and planning, these models are often integer linear programs. It’s a core competency of operations research…
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Information Security Mental Models
Mental models frame how we think about the world. This article describes how they work and why we need more of them in information security.
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Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We're Going
An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow.
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
Recover from depersonalization and derealization2019102 points99 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Can a new interactive movie shed some light on a strange disorder?
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Entrepreneurism Is Overrated
Despite dropping out, Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg were immensely successful because of the alignment of many factors: connections (for elite universities, attending can be as valuable as graduating, due to connections), high IQ (which allowed them to get into such universities and be so successful at tech ), access to…
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Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration
The Pixelbook and four other fairly new Chromebooks have the special flag to enable GPU acceleration, making these the first to get the new feature for Linux. This should bring the Android emulator and improved gaming capabilities to Project Crostini.
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iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers
Long news article (alternate source) on iPhone privacy, specifically the enormous amount of data your apps are collecting without your knowledge. A lot of this happens in the middle of the night, when you’re probably not otherwise using your phone: IPhone apps I discovered tracking me by passing information to third…
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Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)
In this post, I’m going to go through the process of setting up Apple’s A/UX on a Quadra 610. It’s been a long time in the making - I think I had the hardware for nearly a year before I finally got A/UX running properly!
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You are not Google. You are not Netflix
You are also not Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or one of several other big tech companies I could mention here. If I have excluded anybody reading this - I am sorry.Maybe you will still enjoy the read. For everyone else: This article is probably for you. To give you...
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Beating C with Dyalog APL
wc utility in Dyalog APL
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Why we fall for cons
There may be times and places where it’s a good idea to talk back to a military officer — but Germany in 1906 wasn’t one of them. So the young corporal didn’t. The corporal — let’s call him Muller …
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Exercises in Emulation: Xbox 360’s FMA Instruction
Years ago I worked in the Xbox 360 group at Microsoft. We were thinking about releasing a new console, and we thought it would be nice if that console could run the games of the previous console. E…
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What Is Amazon?
What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought from Amazon in about as many ways as one person can; I built an auto parts brand …