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Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole
"I can assure you that they would not be able to do that with the Bank of America security." The words of the Bank of America supervisor echoed in our
Crap I'm speaking at [insert conference here]. How do I prepare?
You just got a notice saying that your talk was accepted to [some huge freaking conference]. Awesome!
The Switch from Heroku to Hardware
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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision
You may feel like you've seen this before. If you have, skip to the end where I talk about a formula, and discuss the relevance to parameters in computer hashing algorithms. In particular, I'm going to talk about how large hash spaces should be to avoid collisions with a given level of probability. If there are just…
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem
Bayes’ Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction.
Making money with a product: a myth?
I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that.
Adding a new statement to Python
This article is an attempt to better understand how the front-end of Python works. Just reading documentation and source code may be a bit boring, so I'm taking a hands-on approach here: I'm going to add an until statement to Python.
NSA Interception Infographic
Late Friday afternoon , the government asked the Supreme Court to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2008 law gives the government unprecedented authority to monitor Americans ’ international emails and phone calls.
The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund
maybe some funds will be used to get some serious thread support going (and don't tell me that threads work in Perl because I'll throw some tomatoes at you).
Don’t Eat Too Much Three Bean Salad. The Server Will Crash.
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Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain
Verifiable (shut down August 1, 2010) Stuart Roseman shut down Verifiable, a crowdsourced charting and data analysis site, to start SaneBox, a product that automatically identifies important email and separates them in a user’s inbox. Below, he explains how he knew when it was time to pull t…
The Lost Art of Becoming Good at Things
Hey folks — on hiatus from writing here, but not forever. Subscribe to hear from me when I surface with updates. Click to read Corbett Barr, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.