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Expiring vs. permanent skills
Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
2042
Against Essential and Accidental Complexity
In the classic 1986 essay, No Silver Bullet , Fred Brooks argued that there is, in some sense, not that much that can be done to improve programmer productivity. His line of reasoning is that programming tasks contain a core of essential/conceptual 1 complexity that's fundamentally not amenable to attack by any…
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Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
On January 15, a Norweigian Consumer Council (NCC) investigative report exposed the ways that Grindr, OKCupid, and eight other apps are collecting and sharing extremely sensitive personal data. Grindr in particular was sharing users’ age and location tied to a device ID that would allow trackers to...
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Lagrangian Neural Networks
A blog by Sam Greydanus
2045
Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
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2046
No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
Analysis of various approaches to monetizing the Twitter hack
2047
Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends
What to do before adopting every little trend you come across
2048
Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
This is a key moment in our company’s history, as the whole world is dealing with significant uncertainty. Know that you are not alone. We are facing this situation together. Our goal is to stay focused on living our core values and actively connect with teammates, our community, and our customers.
2049
The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
2050
Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
Software engineering, the creative nature of the work
2051
Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)
In my third installment of FreeBSD vs Linux, I will discuss underlying reasons for why Linux moved away from ifconfig(8) to ip(8).
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Text Processing in the Shell
A quick overview of the most common text processing terminal tools and why they should be part of your day-to-day toolbox.
2054
What end-to-end encryption should look like
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
2055
When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push
I’ve noticed a small pattern across a few of my projects where I had vectorized and parallelized some code. The original algorithm had a “push” approach, the optimized version instead took a “pull” approach. In this article I’ll describe what I mean, though it’s mostly just so I can show off some pretty videos…
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FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
Available on the portable ID NOW platform, Abbott's molecular COVID-19 test delivers results in minutes in a variety of healthcare settings.
2059
Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
TLDR: 30 member tech team formed over seven years built India's largest stock broker. Unconventional setup. The long pending tech blog is finally here. Some backstory and context.
2060
How to stay private when using Android
Android is one of Google’s most important tools for collecting data on users. This guide will help you improve your privacy on Android devices.
2061
I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
Grocery shopping has been one of my least favorite chores, even before the pandemic. Unlike many people I know, I always preferred online shopping over going to the supermarket. Now it’s not a matter
2062
The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
In his own words, James Dyson reveals the Dyson electric vehicle.
2063
The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
Today we are announcing that the Eclipse Foundation is transitioning itself to become a European-based organization, specifically a Belgian international nonprofit association. I wanted to take thi…
2064
SeL4 is verified on RISC-V
Sounds great! But what does it mean? seL4 seL4 (pronounced ess-e-ell-four) is arguably the world’s most secure operating system (OS) kernel. The OS kernel is the lowest level of software runn…
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address ...
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On modern hardware the min-max heap beats a binary heap
The heap is a data structure that I use all the time and that others somehow use rarely. (I once had a coworker tell me that he knew some code was mine because it used a heap) Recently I was writin…
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When Fonts Fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
2069
Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…
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Your Move, iPad
Hear that? It’s the sound of Mac fans. No, not your shiny new M1 Mac’s fans—chances are, you’ll never hear those—but rather, the sound of excitement rippling through the Mac community. This is something big. Really big. Now, I’m only 33, but someday when I go full fuddy-duddy I will speak of this: the great…