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Symantec's Bad Week
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,414 posts.
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A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand
Now they’ve gone an done it. An unidentified agency has spread a potent computer virus across all the world’s computers and deleted the binaries for every copy of every software development tool. Even the offline copies — it’s that potent.
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Lumen: Auto brightness based on screen contents
Lumen is a menu bar application for macOS that magically sets the screen brightness based on your screen contents.
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The Democratization of Censorship
John Gilmore , an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech.
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Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
What do you see when you look at this picture? You might simply see an animal. Maybe you see a pet, a dog, or a Golden Retriever. The association between the image and these labels is not hard-wired in to your brain. Instead, you learned the labels after seeing hundreds or thousands of examples. Operating […]
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SQL Tricks
Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This a…
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My Experience Running Development at a Startup
Posts from the old antjanus.com blog (2012–2020), rebuilt from the Wayback Machine.
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WebDriver Support in Safari 10
Starting with Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, Safari comes bundled with a WebDriver implementation that's maintained by the Web Developer Experience team at Apple.
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Farewell, Marvin Minsky
Stephen Wolfram describes his friendship and shared interest in computation with the late Marvin Minsky, pioneer of computation and AI.
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Twitter's Vine source code dump
urandom talks
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Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
How far is too far when it comes to including people with different beliefs?
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The Heart of Deterrence (2012)
Nuclear strategy is one part cold logic, one part emotional terror.
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Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees
Yesterday all of us who work for NVIDIA got an email from our flamboyant CEO Jensen Huang. With some really quite startling positive changes to employee benefits for maternity and parental leave af…
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Sketch 3.7 released
Sketch 3.7 is an important update for Sketch. It introduces an all new version of Symbols and we can’t wait to hear what you think of them.
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Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
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Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python
Introducing Feather: a fast binary file format for data frames that works in both R and Python, built on Apache Arrow.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
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Vera Rubin has died
Rubin confirmed the existence of dark matter—the invisible material that makes up more than 90% of the mass of the universe.
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The Case Against Python 3
This document serves as a collection of reasons why beginners should avoid Python 3 as of November 22nd, 2016. I give two sets of reasons as I see them now. One for total beginners, and another for people who are more knowledgeable about programming. The first section attempts to explain the case against starting with…
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A convenient untruth: Array notation in C is a lie
Array notation in C is a lie! Sorry, dear reader*, but I cannot participate in this conspiracy any longer. You have been lied to, manipulated and coerced into thinking arrays are a construct of the C language. I feel it is my solemn duty to blow the whistle on this charade and expose the dirty secrets of C’s so-called…
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A brief update
Over the last couple years, I’ve seen more and more people in technology trying to make government work better. They’re idealists who are also making a large impact. These are people th…
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Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security risk
This is a big issue and it has been there for a long time. Just a month ago I finally got verification that the Microsoft Product Groups n...
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Software Development at 1 Hz
People keep saying that a one line source code change should take one second to be “effective”. “Effective” meaning that you get some form…