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Why I switched from Vim to Emacs
EDIT: As pointed out on reddit (both in r/emacs and r/vim), many of my criticisms of Vim are unfair. Everything I posted about was based purely on my personal experience with the two, but much of m…
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AngularDart is going all Dart
Until now, the multiple language flavors of Angular 2 were written as TypeScript source, and then automatically compiled to both JavaScrip...
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Real or not? USC study finds many political tweets come from fake accounts
A deep scientific analysis of political tweets this #Election reveals bots are swaying the discourse, according to scientists at the USC Information Sciences Institute.
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Web Scraping Finds Price Fluctuation
This is the last post ending a series of articles that have traced the prices of some of the top gifts, gadgets, and gizmos from Black Friday 2015 through to
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RISC instruction sets I have known and disliked
Experienced professional software engineer based in York, UK
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Zero size arrays in C
The current structure definition of the ion system heap involves a zero sized array:
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UDP for games – encryption and DDoS protection
Quote: Yes, you DO need to encrypt your UDP traffic. And no, using UDP is NOT a valid excuse to skip encryption Another Quote: Personally, I prefer to think ...
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Migrating Pinterest profiles to React
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto
There was some wanking among the US foreign policy wonkosphere about the nuclear torpedo “accidentally” mentioned in a Russian news video. The device described in the leak is a megat…
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FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law
President Obama signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Act of 2016 yesterday. The Act places a 25 year limit on the use of the deliberative process exemption, codifies a presumption of openness, and makes various procedural improvements in the FOIA. The Department of Justice summarized its…
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Becoming a Professor
Photo by Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons When I was first appointed as the director of the MIT Media...
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Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge
Crooks who deploy skimming devices made to steal payment card details from fuel station pumps don’t just target filling stations at random: They tend to focus on those that neglect to deploy various tools designed to minimize such scams, including security cameras, non-standard pump locks and tamper-proof security…
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Generalizing JSX: Delivering on the Dream of Curried Named Parameters
We deconstruct JSX to create a new general purpose programming tool.
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Continuous MySQL backup validation: Restoring backups
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Varnish Explained
Complete guide to Varnish cache: HTTP headers, VCL configuration, cache invalidation, ESI, and practical setup. Video, slides & real-world examples.
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend
The books are now available in unprotected pdf for PAY WHAT YOU WISH, with 50% going to not for profit programming education organizations. ...
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Using Graph Databases to Stop E-commerce Fraud in Real Time
Discover how to detect and deter e-commerce fraud – before fraudsters inflict significant damage – when you harness the power of graph database technology.