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Double-clicking on the Web
Here's a usability feature for the web: disable double-clicks on links and form submits. Before you think I'm a complete idiot, allow me to talk some sense into …
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Reassessing Airport Security
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security “red team” tests was justifiably shocking. It’s clear that we’re not getting value for the $7 billion we’re paying the TSA annually. But there’s another conclusion, inescapable and disturbing to…
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Recognising a Bad User Interface at First Glance
A trained eye can often spot unfriendly software a mile away. It’s just like forming and making a first impression when you meet someone new.
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IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko
Experience an integrated media property for tech workers—latest news, explainers and market insights to help stay ahead of the curve.
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Go enjoy Python3
Given a string, get a truncated string of length up to 12. The task is ambiguous, as it doesn't say anything about whether or not 12 shou...
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Lessons from Airbnb's Rejections
I am so happy Brian Chesky shared these rejection emails from Airbnb's early days. I am constantly reminded how most every successful startup began small and faced various types of rejection early...
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Fedora 23 Beta released
The Fedora 23 Beta is here, right on schedule for our planned October final release! Want to help make Fedora 23 be the best release ever, or just want to get a sneak peek? Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site and give it a whirl: Get Fedora 23 Beta Workstation — a reliable, user-friendly, […]
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Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens (2014)
A weblog about politics, technology, and culture
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Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank
We're proud to say that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has acquired the assets and team of Standard Treasury. More information can be found in the press release. Dan and I started Standard Treasury...
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Confirmed: The Last Great Prediction Of The Big Bang
A leftover glow unlike any other — of neutrinos — has finally been seen.
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The Essence of Peopling
Nouns for human beings - "people" or "person" - conjure in the mind a snapshot of the surface appearance of humans. Using nouns like "people" subtly encourages…
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Tagged Pointer Strings
Tagged pointers are an interesting technology used to increase performance and reduce memory usage. As of OS X 10.10, NSString got the tagged pointer treatment, and today I'm going to take a look at how it works, a topic suggested by Ken Ferry.
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W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous
Back in June, I was doing some analysis on a Windows driver and discovered that the INIT section had the read, write, and executable characteristics flags set. Windows executables (drivers included…
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Getting started with Meteor and React
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Understanding Variance, Co-Variance, and Correlation
An explanation of Variance, Covariance and Correlation in rigorous yet clear terms providing a more general and intuitive look at these essential concepts.
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