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Firefox 75.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Weirdos in the depression
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Games people play with cash flow
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
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Gitlab features that are moving to open source
We're open sourcing rich functionality across Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Protect.
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What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
Food delivery app DoorDash has grown rapidly into the national industry leader, serving all 50 states and outpacing GrubHub, Uber Eats, Postmates, and other players with an estimated 35% marketshare in a rapidly-expanding segment. The company is reportedly preparing for an IPO and has been valued at a remarkable $12.6…
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TV Backlight Compensation
Watching TV makes me see red! I mean it in the literal sense: my Panasonic's backlight is slightly broken causing an uneven pink color when it should be white:
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Non-Posix File Systems
Operating systems and file systems have traditionally been developed hand in hand. They impose mutual constraints on each other. Today we have two major leaders in file system semantics: Windows and POSIX . They are very close to each other when compared to the full set of possibilities. Interesting things happened…
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ZSH Aliases
In ZSH you can increase your productivity with aliases. This post explains 5 types of aliases that you should know. Boost your shell productivity now and make ZSH your own
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
Today we are expanding Fuchsia’s open source model to welcome contributions from the public.
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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Hyperdrive is now faster and more reliable. Plus it comes with a daemon.
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Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
QUIC is a new networking transport protocol that combines the features of TCP, TLS, and more. HTTP/3 is the latest version of HTTP, the prot...
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Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Lights and Shadows
Interactive article explaining how lights and shadows behave.
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The “No Code” Delusion
Increasingly popular in the last couple of years, I think 2020 is going to be the year of “no code”: the movement that say you can write business logic and even entire applications without having the training of a software developer. I empathise with people doing this, and I think some of the “no code” tools are…
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Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD
Have you ever wondered which node consumes more resources? Managing a bespoke dashboard for your infrastructure. Learn how to create it.
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Why Figma Wins
Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory…
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Why I left my tenured academic job
The news is out : I left France, I'm no longer a professor at EURECOM, I joined the Malware Research Team at CISCO Talos, and I moved to beautiful Vienna. Big change :-)
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Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014
I’ve been reading the news this week about Hey, Apple, and in app purchases. Many people have offered their takes on the situation, and I can’t help but feel déjà vu.
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Why is AI so useless for business?
AI research has structural problems that limit how much it can impact business. But understanding why gives a way to determine what will work and what won't, as well as reveal new business opportunities.
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Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a major label. I'm just a small indie artist making music in my evenings— and Spotify is making that possible.
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Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me
For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central control points for our data. And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the world-sized robot that is the…
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Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass
Today I'm disclosing a macOS privacy protections bypass. (You may recall that I disclosed another one last year .) The privacy protections system (also known as TCC: Transparency, Consent, and Control) was introduced in macOS Mojave, and one of its purposes is to protect certain files on your Mac from access by…
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Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
After almost 2 years since R1/beta1, Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and “Get Haiku!” to skip all that and just download …
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The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump’s administ