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How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,400 posts.
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An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology
Imagine if a chemist told you offhandedly that the Russians had different chemical elements than we did. Here in America, we use elements like lithium and silicon and bismuth. We have figured out l…
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Plain text wrapping in Gmail
By default, composing a new email in Gmail results in an HTML email under the hood — even if you don’t use any formatting. Luckily, it’s possible to opt-out of that and use plain text email instead. In the ‘new email’ window, click the downwards arrow and check ‘Plain text mode’.
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Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Sane Concurrency with Go
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote an enlightening post recently in which he expounds in some detail about the challenges of writing highly concurrent software. If you write software ...
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A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup
As you think about holiday gifts this season, I’d like to warn you about the subscription service Whimseybox. This is also a cautionary…
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CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets
I'm pleased to announce that CloudFlare now supports WebSockets. The ability to protect and accelerate WebSockets has been one of our most requested features.
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Go 1.3 Linker Improvements
Go obtains much of its compilation speed from the Plan 9 compiler, of which it is a direct descendant. The Plan 9 toolchain deferred much of the work traditionally performed by a compiler to the linking stage and its performance was summarised in section 8 of this paper
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Avoiding systemd isn't hard
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On Error Handling in Rust
My thoughts about error handling in APIs after writing a Redis library in Rust.
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RethinkDB 1.12: simplified map/reduce, ARM port, new caching infrastructure
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.12 ( The Wizard of Oz ). Download it now!
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Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition
Update: Our recently updated Surveillance Self-Defense guide includes more background and detail on security threats facing mobile phone users. Check out the guide, and pay particular attention to The Problem With Mobile Phones. With major protests in the news again, we decided it's time to update...
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Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives – Faster, Simpler and Less Expensive
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Peek Inside a Professional Carding Shop
Over the past year, I’ve spent a great deal of time trolling a variety of underground stores that sell “dumps” — street slang for stolen credit card data that buyers can use to counterfeit new cards and go shopping in big-box stores for high-dollar merchandise that can be resold quickly for cash. By way of explaining…
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Understanding the iPhone 6 Plus Screen
An experiment to understand how the discrepancy between logical and native screen dimensions on the iPhone 6 Plus affects rendering quality.
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Melting aluminum
Today another in my ongoing, seldom-updated series of posts about building my own backyard foundry. Today I’ll describe how the final step works: actually melting and pouring the metal. First…
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