Best of 2012

I like Gnome Shell

This is the mail system

Sebastiaan de With's blog2012119 points74 commentsNetworking & Internet details

This is how we tell hundreds of millions of computer users that something has gone wrong:

Enterprise is sexy now. But B2D is sexier.

There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs

Terence Tao2012119 points68 commentscited by 20Math & Algorithms details

Huffshell: You probably type too much.

The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe

Aldo Cortesi2012119 points51 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

You Only Wish MongoDB Wasn't Relational

Once

Nathan Bashaw2012119 points43 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

The Strange Case of John Dillinger and the Fraudulent Apple ID

Programming Zen2012119 points36 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

Programming Zen is a blog about programming and emerging technologies, authored by Antonio Cangiano, a Software Development Manager and AI Evangelist at IBM.

Resources to Hack Design

Want to learn Django? Start here.

Giovanni Collazo2012119 points22 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details

Never Stop Hacking

Randall Degges2012119 points12 commentsCareer & Management details

A short note to myself: what makes programming fun isn't finishing tasks, it's the problems themselves and the process of learning. Never stop hacking.

Deconstructing "K&R C"

Learn Code the Hard Way2012118 points129 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…

Web programs written in C++ are no big deal

The future of GNOME

GNOME Blogs2012118 points105 commentsDesign & UX details

Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of press for his abysmally negative post, but I think his mis-stated the situation quite badly. As Dave Mason said during...

Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework

Elided Branches2012118 points84 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture

Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East

AWS Blog2012118 points78 commentscited by 8Systems & Performance details

The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText

When Will Being a Non-TSA Airport Become a Competitive Advantage?

A brief guide to Tech Internships for CS students

Alexey Komissarouk2012118 points68 commentsCareer & Management details

Planning to be an Intern in the Bay Area during Summer 2012? Make sure to read an Intern's Guide to the Bay Area, and join the 2012 Facebook group. (via this guy, via this guy)Joel Spolsky, from the Joel On Software blog and StackOverflow, wrote an article with Advice for Computer Science College Students back in '05…

Cloudflare Attack Post Mortem; Apparent Google Apps/Gmail Vulnerability

Cloudflare Blog2012118 points63 commentscited by 4Security & Privacy details

This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack was the result of a compromise of Google's account security procedures.

The Emails That Got My Unsexy Start-Up Covered By TechCrunch

Calling All Broadcasters

BitTorrent Blog2012118 points48 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you. BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. Built with users, from scratch, it’s designed to take the principles of…

The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm

Why Reddit switched to Python (2005)

Reddit Blog2012118 points42 commentscited by 8Programming Languages details

Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.

Usability Hell: London 2012 Olympics Ticketing Fail

A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch

Statwing Blog2012118 points38 commentscited by 3Databases & Data details

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Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

LessThanDot Blogs2012118 points32 commentsSoftware Engineering details

A New Way To Solve Linear Equations (over finite fields)

Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP2012118 points32 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Impossible but true: a new approach to linear systems Prasad Raghavendra is an expert in many aspects of complexity theory, especially the foundations of approximation theory. He recently was a col…