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There Is No Thread
This is an essential truth of async in its purest form: There is no thread.
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60fps on the mobile web
Flipboard launched during the dawn of the smartphone and tablet as a mobile-first experience, allowing us to rethink content layout principles from the web for a more elegant user experience on a variety of touchscreen form factors.
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How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu
When dealing with an extensive infrastructure and many team members, managing SSH keys for authentication can become unwieldy. However, SSH can utilize cert…
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Why Neovim is Better than Vim
I know Vim better than most. Vim was my first real text editor.[1] I used it for years. I helped write the Floobits plugin for Vim. I’ve delved into Vim’s source code to figure out its workings. I e…
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Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity
<p>Proof of stake continues to be one of the most controversial discussions in the cryptocurrency space. Although the idea has many undeniable benefits,...
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The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming, as originally established in Jerry Weinberg’s book The Psychology of Computer Programming: 1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they make it into production. Fortunately, except for the few of us developing rocket
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Choosing properties for property-based testing
Or, I want to use PBT, but I can never think of any properties to use
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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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Falling Into The Pit of Success
Eric Lippert notes the perils of programming in C++: I often think of C++ as my own personal Pit of Despair Programming Language. Unmanaged C++ makes it so easy to fall into traps. Think buffer overruns, memory leaks, double frees, mismatch between allocator and deallocator, using freed memory, umpteen dozen
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Schelling's Model of Segregation
Racial segregation has always been a pernicious social problem in the United States. Many factors have contributed to segregation including prejudice, zoning laws, housing discrimination, and loan discrimination. Although much effort has been extended to desegregate our schools, churches, and neighborhoods, the US…
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Commandos, Infantry, and Police
As I was driving home, I found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book Accidental Empires, by longtime computer journalist Robert X. Cringely. Originally published in 1993, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but it still contains a lot of great insights about the personalities