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A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4
Running processes in isolated network namespaces
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Go 1.13: xerrors
Part of the Go 2 series of language changes is a new error inspection proposal .
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
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SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
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Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
GraphQL offers a lot more than reduced round trips.
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Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns over its US origin…
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McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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The Paris Compressed-Air Power Network (2018)
Douglas Self, clockwork, tram, Leveaux,
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Preload, prefetch and other link tags
There’re lots of ways to improve web performance (see Web Performance 101 for a full overview). One of those ways is to preload content you’ll need later in advance. Prefetch a CSS file, prerender a full page, or resolve a domain ahead of time – and you won’t have to wait for it when it’s actually needed! Sounds cool.
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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Get ready for medium data
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A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
Should I teach myself to code or get a college CS degree? This is a question that many face. Software development is a field that is heavily reliant on skills. So surely teaching yourself to code should be enough right? Wrong.
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Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
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Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991
Many of the basic ideas behind the Deep Learning Revolution were published three decades ago within fewer than 12 months in our "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-91
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Exploring Mathematics with Matplotlib and Python
Data Visualization can be a great tool for mathematical exploration and experimentation. In this article, I show you an example using Matplotlib and Python.
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AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?
If AirPods were magical, AirPods Pro are supernatural. Apple’s newest pair of AirPods continues to make waves with “augmented hearing” entering people’s vocabulary. However, the broader implications found with Apple’s AirPods strategy are just as impressive. Apple is quickly removing all available o
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C++ UI Libraries
A list of free, cross-platform GUI solutions for C++.
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
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“The Book of Why” by Pearl and Mackenzie
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie sent me a copy of their new book, “The book of why: The new science of cause and effect.”
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Phone Numbers Stink as Identity Proof
Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they’ve become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose control over a phone number — maybe it’s hijacked by fraudsters, you got separated or divorced, or you were way late on your…
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Coping with Flexbox
If only someone paid me everytime I visited CSSTrick's flexbox guide…or at least all those times when I fiddled around {justify,align}-{content,items} trying to make _something_ happen on screen. I wanted to form a better mental model of all the basic functionality that flexbox provides for all those…
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What is ergodicity? (2016)
Why are election polls often inaccurate? Why is racism wrong? Why are your assumptions often mistaken? The answers to all these questions and to many others have a lot to do with the non-ergodicity…
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“Essentials of Garbage Collectors” full course is now available
Course overview Memory leaks and dangling pointers are the main issues of the manual memory management. You delete a parent node in a linked list, forgetting to delete all its children first -- and your
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‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams
Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings.
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Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
In one part of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is neither about Zen nor motorcycle maintenance, there are two motorcycles and two riders. John Sutherland is a romanticist who appreciates the external qualities of his motorcycle: its aesthetics, and its use as a vehicle. The narrator is a…