WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn an unprecedented ruling allowing the government to intercept, collect, and store—without a warrant—millions of Americans’ electronic communications, including emails, texts, phone calls, and...
An interactive essay on the joys and pitfalls of histograms
This is my first Patreon-supported essay, which went out a week early to my $10 and up subscribers. This was written in part in response to issues with the IWMF check-in tool, but it's something I've been concerned about for some time.
Oh goodness, what fun twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest. It was glorious ‘to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping.’ We frolicked and water-bombed and sometimes, in the moonlight, skinny-dipped.
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic. We have found that there are two types of publishers who may have inval…
I met my wife at a tech holiday party. I saw her from across the party and the rest of the people in the room disappeared…but this story doesn’t go the way you think. We didn’t ge…
A review of 190 articles about Amazon.com from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly positive–ofttimes boosterish–coverage.
The MathJax CDN hosted at cdn.mathjax.org will be shutting down on April 30, 2017. Current and future releases available on other CDN providers.
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Discussing a recent academic finding on Java and Scala, from industry's perspective.
Recently at Bluecore I ran into a familiar situation: during brief periods of overload, all requests to a server were timing out. It was a catastrophic failure, where the server completely stopped serving. We added more capacity to prevent overload, but we also wanted to fix the server. Instead of exploding, it should…
Weblog/homepage for a developer/engineer/artist. DIY projects, opinions and code.
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
Last time I reviewed various security keys at a fairly superficial level: basic function, physical characteristics etc. This post considers lower-level behaviour.
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.9, our fourth and final release this year. Today’s release continues the evolution of an increasingly rich feature set, more robust stability, and even greater community contributions. As the fourth release of the year, it gives us an opportunity to look back at…
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Omnispeak is an open-source reimplementation of Commander Keen episodes 4, 5, and 6. It aims to be a pixel-perfect, bug-for-bug clone of the original games, and is compatible with savegames from the DOS version.
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The Microsoft Docs at https://docs.microsoft.com are really fantastic lately. ...
Implementing Principal Component Analysis from scratch in Python: scatter matrices, eigenvectors, variance explained, and comparison with scikit-learn PCA.
Lawmakers are getting serious about renewing the U.S. government’s Internet spying powers, so we need to get serious about stopping their bad proposals. First out of the gate is a bill from Sen. Tom Cotton, an ardent defender of government surveillance. His bill would not just reauthorize, but make...
