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A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)
You are born with no body parts. One by one, your organs are pushed into you. Should anyone attempt to interact with you before your organs have finished arriving you will die. Luckily this doesn&#…
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World map of the difference between solar and clock time
A better map of the difference between solar and standard time, and some trivia
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The ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go
Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go language, stated that he expected the language to be adopted by C++ programmers, a prediction that hasn’t been realised. Recently however at the HFT fi…
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How our freemium plan failed
Three months ago, we introduced a Free plan…and it nearly brought Baremetrics to its knees. Let’s take a look at what we did, how it affected our business and how it was ultimately a failure.
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When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
In a recent paper, we showed that coding style is present in source code and can be used to de-anonymize programmers. But what if only compiled binaries are available, rather than source code? Today we are releasing a new paper showing that coding style can survive compilation. Consequently, we can utilize these…
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NixOS and Stateless Deployment
If you just want to get in touch, you can talk to me in an emailwardly fashion here .
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Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming
Deep learning, despite its remarkable successes, is a young field. While models called artificial neural networks have been studied for decades, much of that work seems only tenuously connected to modern results.
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The Beauty of Clojure
Owen Rees-Hayward - Data Engineer, Software Developer, Certified Spark Developer
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The Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense”
Little by little, the government is opening up about its use of computer security vulnerabilities. Last month, the NSA disclosed that it has historically “released more than 91% of vulnerabilities discovered in products that have gone through our internal review process and that are made and used...
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Use Haskell for shell scripting
turtle 1.0 announcement post
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AWS CodePipeline
We announced AWS CodePipeline at AWS re:Invent last fall (see my post, New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment for the details). As I said at that time, this tool will help you to model and automate your software release process. The automation provided by CodePipeline is designed to make your release process…
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SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier
...and that you'll wish you knew about earlier too
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Facebook Sponsors Let's Encrypt
We’re happy to share today that Facebook is the newest Gold sponsor of Let’s Encrypt. Facebook has taken multiple important steps to support and advance encryption this year, and we are glad to see Let’s Encrypt as the latest example. According to Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, “Making it easier for…
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Do Not Disclose Your Salary to Recruiters
Recruiters are not my most favorite people in the tech eco-system. They’re the people that will contact you on behalf of some client (the company that pays them) in order to try to find new employees. They typically get paid a fairly hefty sum per employee found and if ever there was a moment when the ‘you are the…
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WebSockets: caution required
WebSockets seem to be gaining a resurgence, suddenly they are sexy again. I think this is the wrong message.
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Google Earth Pro is now free
Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using Google Earth Pro for everything from...
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Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates
The keys and certificates that will underlie Let’s Encrypt have been generated. This was done during a key ceremony at a secure facility today. The following objects were created: Key pair and self-signed cert for the ISRG root Key pair and certificate for the ISRG root’s OCSP Key pairs and certificates for two Let’s…
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Toast
Toast was my first published short story collection. It's now effectively out of print — there was going to be a limited, signed, "final" edition, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of it for a year or two now — so I'm releasing it under a Creative Commons license.
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Lisp in Your Language
I'm a fan of Lisp programming languages, but there's an incredible conceptual elegance that struggles to materialise as readable elegance for many unfamiliar programmers. The underlying concepts are incredibly simple, but the learning curve can represent a disproportionate challenge.
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