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What Comes After MVC
Rails apps start out quickly and beautifully, but after a year features are a struggle, tests are slow, developers are grinding, and stakeholders are unhappy. “Skinny controllers and fat models” ha...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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Welcome Anne, Ben, and Joe
Note: Anne, Ben and Joe are no longer part-time partners. I’m delighted to announce three new part-time partners. Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe. Anne is one of the world experts on biotechnology and healthcare companies; her guidance will be invaluable to the increasing numbers of these companies…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests
It’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly…
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How We Use Make
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that collects, cleans, and activates customer data, sending events to hundreds of tools with one API.
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Grafana 2.0 Alpha
Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Living with Microsoft C++ Compiler Bugs and Ambiguities
It’s no secret that the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler has lots of non-standard behaviors. What’s even more unfortunate is that those behaviors are subsequently used by different libraries. Ultimately,
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Using strace to figure out how Git push over SSH works
Yesterday I was curious about how git push works over SSH. I’m getting more used to using strace to figure this kind of thing out, so I gave it a shot. If I strace pushing to this site’s repository, this shows up:
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Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant for Your Data
Californians can rest assured that law enforcement can’t poke around in their digital records without first obtaining a warrant. Today, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed S.B. 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA). After months of pressure from public interest groups, media...
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Native Socket.IO and Android
In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!
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Is it futile to un-Google?
A rant on the obsession with privacy stuff.
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Death Is Optional: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN: Could you elaborate on these possibilities? I mean, what's the distinction between predicting and setting up a range of possibilities?
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The Taos Operating System (1991)
{This material originally appeared in the March, 1991 International Edition of Byte magazine, a McGraw-Hill publication} To describe TAOS (pronounced 'dowse' as in the oriental religion Daoism) as an innovatory operating system would be a profound understatement. It has so few points of
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Announcing Docker ToolBox
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
I gave the best programming interview answer I may have ever given last Friday. The interviewer hauled out FizzBuzz and asked me to solve it. It took me a minute to stop laughing. FizzBuzz is a brain-dead simple programming problem, used pretty much to tell if a developer has a pulse at all. It is…
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Strange C Syntax
In my attempts to learn the C programming language well enough to write my own C compiler , I've encountered some very interesting examples of C syntax that you generally don't see every day. All of these examples you'll see here will compile without warnings or errors even with very strict compiler flags in gcc and…
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Old graph paper
I found an old pad of graph paper in my father's desk and was reminded of the days of plotting by hand.
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SendGrid employee’s account was compromised and used to access internal systems
Explore the latest company news, product updates, technical tutorials, and best practices from Twilio, the industry-leading customer engagement platform.
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Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
Because we can!