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Why I've lost faith in p values
[Note: There is a followup to this post .] There has been a lot written over the past decade (and even longer) about problems associated with null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) and p values. Personally, I have found most of these arguments unconvincing. However, one of t
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Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
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HTTP/2 Push is dead
One of the hot features that came with HTTP/2 was PUSH frames. The main idea is that if the server can predict what requests a client might want to make, the server can preemptively send request/response pairs to the client and warm its cache.
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Eleven Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
There’s potential for massive profits: most customers of shared hosting and VPSes never come anywhere near their resource allocations so the machines can be extremely oversold, and most dedicated-server customers keep paying the “new” price of the server every month for years after its value has plummeted through the…
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Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements
LinkedIn endorsements are useless. See the research we did and learn why these endorsements are dumb.
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Excessive load on NTP servers
Since last Tuesday some countries have seen an excessive number of queries to the NTP Pool. After much detective work on nanog (conclusion) and the #NTP IRC channel it was determined to be a buggy Snapchat app update.
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How to get people who installed a leaked build to stop using that build?
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
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How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre: And at the political level, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to do everything to ensure the country’s core values were not undermined. “The…
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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.
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WeWTF, Part Deux
So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math. The autopsy will show the shelving of this IPO was death by S-1.
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Paul S. Otellini has died
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The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again
EARN IT Act is aiming at scanning our messages and photos, we are calling of Senators to oppose this surveillance bill!
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The Worst Part of YC
We are going to send out YC summer 2014 interview decisions (both yes and no) before 10 pm PDT tonight. The worst part of our job at YC is rejecting companies. It leaves me feeling down for many...
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Planetfall
Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I a…
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Kubernetes V1 Released
On behalf of the community, it’s our pleasure to announce that Kubernetes , the open source container orchestration system, has reached the...
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Dtrace for Linux
Not explicitly mentioned in that talk, but certainly the most exciting thing, is that Oracle is doing a proper linux kernel port:
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Django 1.6 released
The latest official version is 6.1.3
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Servo Continues Pushing Forward
An update from Adenilson Cavalcanti and Lars Bergstrom
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Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had
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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
My Dad died on 5 December 2021. My earliest memory is sitting on his shoulders watching a Guy Fawkes bonfire on one of several visits to the UK as a child. An…
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Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
Algebraic Structures are something I wish I’d understood better, sooner. I had a hazy idea of what they were, but didn’t know the correct terminology. That was a massive barrier to finding out more. This article is my attempt to stop that happening to others. We’ll look at: What are algebraic structures? How do we use…
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …