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Why are payment forms so complicated?
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,935 posts.
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An incoherent Rust
Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision for how we should solve coherence once and for all.
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Zig's (.{}){} Syntax
A look at some unfriendly Zig syntax
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Brave Search launches own image and video search
Brave Search's new independent image and video search feature protects your privacy and freedom to access information online.
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
Software engineering, the creative nature of the work
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You must read at least one book to ride
The first is going to sound bad in a culture where engineers are encouraged to apologize for existing while it is totally acceptable for a grifter that can't code to insist that they're a "thought leader". It is that, in my immediate professional environment, I am consistently acknowledged to be one of the best…
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Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go
Porting Yoga (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation) from C to Go.
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Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Science needs more than answers
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Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Dogecoin and the Appeal of Small Numbers
Dogecoin is a unique phenomenon in the fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. It’s barely six weeks old, and as I write this post its network has more computing power than any other cryptocurrency except for Bitcoin. It made headlines this weekend when its community raised enough money to send the Jamaican bobsled…
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I am a terrible programmer
I recently got this from the co-founder of Artsicle, a startup I interned for over the summer after my freshman year: From: Scott Carleton Subject: just re
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Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
That’s why in February we introduced Lyra: a revolutionary new audio codec using machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls.
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Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code
Undebt: How We Refactored 3 Million Lines of Code Evan H., Software Engineering Intern Aug 23, 2016 Peter Seibel wrote that to maximize engineering effectiveness, “Let a thousand flowers bloom....
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Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us
Heb jij een PlayStation? Dan betaal je onterecht een Sony Tax op al je digitale games. Stichting Massaschade & Consument voert collectieve actie voor een Fair PlayStation.
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Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool
In this article, I will attempt to convince you that Expect is an extremely underappreciated tool for automating terminal applications in Unix.
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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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CloudFlare’s last Warrant Canary was published over a year ago
A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider informs users that it has NOT been served with a secret government subpoena.
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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
If you use Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail/Outlook.com, you now have the option to Gmailify your inbox.
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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden from users when the document is displayed on screen…
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Forstall Out; Ive Up
Scott Forstall is leaving Apple; Jony Ive is taking over software design.
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What Is a Tech Company?
The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.