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Which color scale to use when visualizing data
This is part 1 of a series on “Which color scale to use when visualizing data” (Part …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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No Easter Eggs in Curl
Easter egg; noun: An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software, included as a joke or a bonus. There are no Easter eggs in curl. For the good. I've been asked about this many times. Among the enthusiast community, people seem to generally like the concept of Easter eggs and hidden treasures, ……
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What I wish I knew when learning F#
I’ve used F# a lot in the last 3 years and for quite some time I wanted to collect a few good starting points to venture into F# in one place. I also wanted ...
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Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
You can’t force yourself to think faster. If you try, you’re likely to end up making much worse decisions. Here’s how to improve the actual quality of your decisions instead of chasing hacks to speed them up.
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Firefox 92
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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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
Get started with web scraping in Python following this step-by-step tutorial! Learn how to scrape a site with Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries.
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How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
Nowadays in the internet it is pretty well known that you should validate your product before you even start building it. However, if the product already exists, then the market is already validated for you. Therefore you can consider yourself in a low risk position.
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Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
No product gets built without at least one good supply chain war story – especially true in these strange times. Before we get into the details of the story, I feel it’s worth understanding a bit more about the part that caused me so much trouble: what it does, and why it’s so special.
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Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips
A quick daily practice with prompts for gratitude, intentions, and reflection. I've always struggled to journal consistently by opening a blank page and…
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Lambda School lays off 65 employees
Get the latest news about Bloom Institute of Technology, where you can launch your new tech career from anywhere in just 6-9 months.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
The US imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all Iranian imports and sanctions on Iranian financial institutions.
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Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
A short IPv6 tutorial, explaining the basics, primarily for home and small networks.
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What domain name to use for your home network
Always use the ‘.home.arpa’ top-level domain (RFC 8375), and don’t use the special-purpose ‘.local,’ or made-up undelegated domain names like ‘.lan’ or ‘.home.’
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Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging
Scientists have identified a key factor in mental aging and shown that it might be prevented or reversed by fixing a glitch in the immune system's front-line soldiers.
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The Actual OSI Model
I have said before that I believe that teaching modern students the OSI model as an approach to networking is a fundamental mistake that makes the concepts less clear rather than more. The major reason for this is simple: the OSI model was prescriptive of a specific network stack designed alongside it, and that…
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Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021
Introduction I have around ~50k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days before it hit 1.7k stars. Humans
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Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA
The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the federal computer crime law that’s been misused to prosecute beneficial and important online...
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Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.
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Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox for a while. It has proven to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues.
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What happens in an IPO? – Part 1
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