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Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
By Mollie Ruskin, United States Digital Service
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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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How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
Whilst searching for a flat in London, I lamented to hear my estate agent described the area we were in as “up and coming”.
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The US digital service
A lot of us complain about how the government is not very good at technology. The U.S. Digital Service is actually trying to do something about it, by applying the way startups build products to...
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Fuck the Cloud (2009)
This will be the last time I go along this area of discussion for a while because it’s just going to get very old very quickly. But I wanted, in one place, a quick manifesto/rant about this p…
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Energy
I think a lot about how important cheap, safe, and abundant energy is to our future. A lot of problems—economic, environmental, war, poverty, food and water availability, bad side effects of...
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The Fall and Rise of SVG
The Silicon Publishing Blog, posts about publishing technology from the world experts at InDesign Server automation.
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Coding is not the new literacy
Despite the good intentions behind the movement to get people to code, both the basic premise and approach are flawed. The movement sits on the idea that “coding is the new literacy,” but that takes a narrow view of what literacy really is.
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Why Lisp?
A number of people have contacted me about a comment I wrote yesterday on Hacker News asking me to elaborate, e.g.: my impression is that...
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Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
Your AWS account is one of the most valuable things you own if you run a business on AWS. If you only own a single AWS accoun...
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Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
Recently we wrote about Jeep Cherokee hack incident. At Black Hat security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained, how exactly that hack was done
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Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book
Update : I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The internal position seems to be "we're making money, there are words on pages, so there's no problem…
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One line you should add to every makefile
If you're using GNU make and you need help debugging a makefile then there's a single line your should add. And it's so useful that you sho...
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Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay
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Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
For the first time ever, this month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is being awarded to a design patent. Microsoft recently sued Corel for, among other things, infringing its patent on a slider, D554,140, claiming that Corel Home Office has infringed Microsoft’s design. The design patent, as detailed...
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Paper sizes
Update Apr 22, 2016: I’ve made a video which explains most of what is in this blogpost:Two standardsYes, this blogpost is about paper. This has absolutely no...
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Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks
Similar to how it's getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool's gags from yesteryear… In 2011 we joked "easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD", in which we posited a thinly veiled…
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We're heading for AOL 2.0
Before ‘HTTP’, whenever a new kind of application was invented (say ‘file sharing’, or ‘address book’ or ‘messaging’) someone would sit down with a bunch of others and would discuss this problem at some length. Then they’d draft up a document describing the problem they intended to solve and the protocol layer they…
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8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators
One of my bucket list items since I read my first party report back in 1991 was to attend a european demoparty and compete in a compo. I competed at NAID ’96 and placed there, which was awes…
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X86 is a high-level language
Just so you know, x86 machine-code is now a "high-level" language. What instructions say, and what they do, are very different things. I m...
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Building an Empire with a Single Brick: Meet Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie is driven by a strong work ethic, but not the kind you see touted in business journals and productivity books.