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Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB
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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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A Quick Intro to Rust Macros
Note : This article is for an obsolete version of Rust, and has been superceded by the slightly less misleadingly named "A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust 1.0" .
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JQuery 1.11 and 2.1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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An age-old question
Back to: Let's put the future behind us | Forward to: On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
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The Art of Unix Usability (2004)
This book and its on-line version are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 license, with the additional proviso that the right to publish it on paper for sale or other for-profit use is reserved to Pearson Education, Inc. A reference copy of this license may be found at…
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Using Freenet
I've been following the Freenet project for many years, occasionally firing it up and seeing if I can do anything useful with it. I've been using it regularly over the last month and it has come a long way since I first tried it. It's much faster than what it was in the past. This post describes a bit of...
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A shallow survey of formal methods for C code
Two interesting things in formally verified software happened recently. The big one was the release of SeL4 - a formally verified L4 microkernel. The second was much smaller, but closer to my usual scope: a paper which showed the correctness of sections of a couple of the assembly implementations of Curve25519.
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Getting to work on diversity at Google
We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were wrong, and that it’s time to be candid about the is…
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Where have you gone, Peter Norton?
Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler, shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea what that image means, or you know exactly what it is. It's the torso, rolled-up sleeves and fol
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Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011)
2013 Update: I was young and stupid when I wrote this. I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed. — Tony Hoare I ♥ Lisp. I think it's t...
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Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for
I bought Avnet's $49 Spartan 3A development board but it was discontinued not long afterward - right about the time when I decided I needed a few dozen more. I've since done some extensive research (thanks, Google!) to find a comparable thrifty thrill.
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It’s time to extend the US Privacy Act to EU citizens
Last summer’s Snowden revelations not only highlighted the urgent need for surveillance reform but also severely damaged relations between t...
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Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology
I was recently recommended as a pinch-hitter keynote speaker for a Linux conference by a friend who wasn’t going to be able to present due to a scheduling conflict. She put me in touch with the conference organizers, and they reached out to me with the exciting email subject “We want YOU to keynote [conference…
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Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (2012)
Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It: Explore the challenges posed by SSD drives in preserving court evidence and discover strategies to mitigate data loss risks.
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Arthritis drug spurs hair growth in man with alopecia universalis
A 25-year-old man with almost no hair on his body has grown a full head of it after a novel treatment by doctors at Yale University.
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Where the term "Zero Day" comes from
After seeing a FOIA request earlier today that someone created asking for FBI training documents that teach staff how to understand/communicate using hacker leet-speak, I was reminded about something I’ve wanted to put in virtual ink for a while.
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PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6
correction: php core developers have urged that it is improper to call this version “5.7” (despite the versioning file stating so) PHP 5.7 PHP NG is still in alpha development…