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Building for the 99% Developers
Software development is not all clean code and automated processes -- and it never will be. Buyers and vendors both need to realize this.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,828 posts.
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68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits: Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even … Continue reading →
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.
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Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
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Mullvad is now available on Amazon
For the first time in our history you can buy Mullvad VPN physical activation codes on Amazon!
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60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
The tool is great, but it uses perf to record and analyze profile data, and perf on Debian has a performance problem : when not linked against libbfd , it shells out to addr2line for every address it needs to look up. Thousands and thousands and thousands of incredibly short-lived processes.
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The internals of PostgreSQL
After a temporary stay in Japan to focus on my health and personal responsibilities, I am fully recovered, ready, and excited to work abroad again.
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Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million . Domain experts called corp.com dangerous because years of testing showed whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other…
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The Bill Gates Line
Understanding the differences between aggregators and platforms matters for companies interacting with them and also regulators considering antitrust.
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CSAR: European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages
This marks a positive development for human rights in one of the most controversial draft European Union (EU) laws in recent memory.
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Godot 4.0 Released
It's official. Today marks the beginning of a new era for Godot. After 3+ years of breaking and rebuilding from the ground up, we're thrilled to say: Welcome to the start of Godot 4!
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Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software
In this article I'm putting together my quotes, thoughts and notes on the idea that Frameworks harm the maintainability of the software you build in that framework. I'm proposing that Frameworks:
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Buy payphones and retire
Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a modern phenomenon. The promise of big money for little work is one of the fundamental human weaknesses, though, and it…
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Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
The better goal? Keep your head down, make a great product, and build a successful business. Silicon Valley prays at the altar of the billion-dollar
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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
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The 3dfx Voodoo1
This article is the second entry in a series about the "3D cards of the late 90s running Quake". The first entry [1] took a look at the end of 1996 with the Rendition Vérité 1000 and its dedicated port called vQuake. Rendition had managed to beat everybody to Quake-market. For a brief period of time they had the one…
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Introducing Chrome for Android
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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