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Twitter's Fucked
The Twitter product is defective, broken beyond all hope of repair
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If your code accepts URIs as input, filter out “file://”
There are many online sites that accept reading input from remote locations. For example a site might try to extract all the text from a webpage, or show you the HTTP-headers a given server sends back in response to a request.
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Teaching C
I was hoping you would mention the dynamic checkers, ASAN etc. My fear is people will start using these but not understand how to really use them properly. Since they’re dynamic checkers you really need a good testing harness and test cases to go with it. The bugs ASAN/TSAN etc catch are usually strange boundary…
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Employee #1: Amazon
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Image Processing 101
At the Recurse Center, I spent some time teaching myself image processing. When I started, I had no idea what it entailed. I just knew that it could help me recognize text, shapes and patterns and to do interesting things with them.
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Weep for Graphics Programming
The mainstream real-time graphics APIs, OpenGL and Direct3D, make miserable standard bearers for the age of hardware heterogeneity. Their approach to heterogeneous programming leads to stringly typed interfaces, a huge volume of boilerplate, and impoverished GPU-specific programming languages.
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Ways Data Projects Fail
Introduction Data science continues to generate excitement and yet real-world results can often disappoint business stakeholders. How can we mitigate risk and ensure results match expectations? Working as a technical data scientist at the interface between R&D and commercial operations has given me an insight into the…
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A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
Engineering at Forward | UCLA CS '19
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Zero Cost Abstractions
Rust claims to enable abstraction without overhead. How does that claim hold up in practice?
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How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco
Learn how to build and deploy a Slack bot in Python to identify the best rental properties using Craigslist, Slack, and Python.
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Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask
Visit the post for more.
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‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.
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Before Growth
We tell startups all the time that they have to grow quickly. That’s true, and very good advice, but I think the current fashion of Silicon Valley startups has taken this to an unhealthy...
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Mono Relicensed as MIT
At Microsoft Build today, we announced that we are re-releasing Mono under the MIT license and have contributed it to the .NET Foundation . These are major news for Mono developers and contributors, and I am incredibly excited about the opportunities that this will create for the Mono project, and for other projects…
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How Skype fixes security vulnerabilities
In a nutshell — they don't. This post describes my fruitless effort to convince Microsoft employees that their service is vulnerable, and the humiliation one has to go through should one's account be blocked by a hacker. This is a story of ignorance, pain, and despair.
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Living, in Limbo
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
When the central heating takes effect I'll get up and make myself some tea and porridge to which I'll add some nuts and fruit. I'll switch on The World Service to hear the news, and then make a few phone calls about damp-proofing. And I'll probably plant the daffodil bulbs for Spring (it says on the packet they should…
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All the best advice we could find on how to get a job
We've read a lot of job-hunting advice. Most of it is useless. Here's what we've found actually works — starting with why job boards are a last resort.
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