Having spent a lot of the last few years worrying about the scalability of data-heavy applications like Rapportive , I have started to get the feeling that maybe we have all been “doing it wrong”. Maybe what we consider to be “state of the art” application architecture is actually holding us back.
We can now conclusively link Stuxnet to the centrifuge structure at the Natanz nuclear enrichment lab in Iran. Watch this new video presentation from Ralph Langner, the researcher who has done the most work on Stuxnet. It’s a long clip, but the good stuff is between 21:00 and 29:00. The pictures he’s referring to are…
Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software, is a contracting iOS developer based in Australia.
Right after our TC press post we were onto showcasing Cucumbertown to the HN community and taking feedback. Things were looking fine for sometime until Murphy decided to play spoilsport and we hit ocean bottom when we showed up on the front page. 1 hour on the HN homepage and we were out. Pretty saddening experience…
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One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover , mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly…
A while back I wrote about learning things just-in-case or just-in-time. Some things you learn in case you need them in the future, and some things you learn as needed. How do you decide whether something is worth learning ahead of time, or whether it is best to learn if and when you need it?
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From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 Jul 18th, 2012 | by Sven Bergström Multiplayer and browsers When you consider making multiplayer games, there are …
There’s a pitcher who’s in Mets Major League camp that’s staying at my hotel. It doesn’t seem appropriate to say his name and it doesn’t much matter for the sake of th…
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Last week, I gave a talk about Go at the Boston Google Developers Group meeting. There were some problems with the recording, so I have rerecorded the talk as a screencast and posted it on YouTube.
The following is an email I sent to John Carmack of Id Software after I had watched his Quakecon 2012 Keynote Speech
Hello. I’ve been an otherwise happy iPhone user since 2008. I use my iPhone with an MVNO carrier in the U.S. called Straight Talk, which runs over AT&T’s network. This is my story.
Web service designers have tried for some time now to correlate CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete) semantics with the Representational State Transfer (REST) verbs defined by the HTTP specif…
