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Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
Download the extension now from the Visual Studio Gallery Update: For the folks who have extensions that replace the Visual Studio IntelliSense
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,923 posts.
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Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
In the EU, digital sovereignty is trending. Businesses and authorities are starting to adopt sovereign solutions from Europe.
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Escaping Hell with Monads (2017)
As programmers we occasionally find ourselves in “Programmer’s Hell”, where our regular abstractions fail to satisfactory solve certain recurrent problems.
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The Einstein AI Model
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
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Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkab...
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We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We moved MongoDB Atlas off AWS and onto self-hosted Hetzner boxes — 90% cost cut, no performance loss. Here's the setup, the Ansible, and what broke.
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Fear, trust and JavaScript: When types and functional programming fail
Explore the challenges and solutions when applying types and functional programming concepts in JavaScript. This insightful blog post delves into the complexities of managing data shape, immutability, and trust in dynamic code, offering practical advice and alternative approaches to enhance code reliability and…
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Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
Ian Harris explains that more than half of commonly performed surgical operations may be placebos. Adequate studies using a blinded control group are essential. Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo. I…
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The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?
Shorter title: SBF, FTX, WTF?
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Bun 1.4
Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.
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But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke
If your growth strategy only works as long as wealthy people live in your town, your growth strategy is deeply fragile.
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An iOS app update that annoys me
Almost a year ago I started using a delightful little iOS app called Receipt Box. It did exactly what I wanted: I could tap in an expense and a category, and the app added a geo location to the exp...
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Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat
I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time. Prologue It's
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I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
In order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my ex…
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The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem
TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone. Introduction The pigeons in my backyard find particular pleasures in voiding their excrements onto my balcony. Dissatisfied with this…
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We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style
A data-driven analysis of thousands of technical interviews that focuses on easily measurable attributes that many interviews share.
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Enabling developers and organizations to use differential privacy
Whether you're a city planner, a small business owner, or a software developer, gaining useful insights from data can help make services work better and answer important questions. But, without strong privacy protections, you risk losing the trust of your citizens, customers, and users.
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Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022)
Good news: we have a neat, universal milestone on the journey to mastery. What that looks like, and how to use it.
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…
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What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (2017)
As part of my job I spend quite a lot of time scanning through files and disk contents, often in hex or filtered text view, searching for sp...
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The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Does your office have a library?
Let's get weird... here are some questions. These questions aren't special questions or specifically meant as only this set of questions... they are just questions that capture the spirit of 'pause and think on some stuff that you don't'. Fill in your own questions if you have better ones.
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Run Your Own Website
I go back and forth on running my own website. I love [working](Re Introducing First Crack.txt) [on](First Crack Release Notes 0619.txt) [First Crack](/projects.html#firstCrack), but that work can become trying. I have little time for [projects](/projects.html), and the more I spend coding, the less I [read](My…
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Learning C3
Learning the C3 programming language
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0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
The Junkyard contest focuses on deprecated systems, responsible disclosure, and meme-worthy exploits. Join us today!
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AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight
Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.