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Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
TL;DR; We are changing std::sort in LLVM’s libcxx. That’s a long story of what it took us to get there and all possible consequences, bugs you might encounter with examples from open so…
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Is this the end of social networking?
Scott Rosenberg , in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network” , writes at Axios:
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What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
File this under highly speculative. I’m sure there is better research on this topic than this writing This past week, for no obvious reason,...
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The Demise of Scientific American
Scott’s foreword One week ago, E. O. Wilson—the legendary naturalist and conservationist, and man who was universally acknowledged to know more about ants than anyone else in human hist…
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Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.
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The computers are fast, but you don't know it
The computers are fast but you don't know it: Speeding up your Python functions with Cython & C++
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App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps
I've had my fair share of App Store rejections in the past: - ⌘ rcmd was rejected for usage of private APIs - GammaDimmer was rejected for having a link to 🌕 Lunar (my app for controlling monitors that would never get accepted on the App Store) ...
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Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
This article is not intended to convince you to abandon your current antivirus solutions. In this post I would like to share my observations and ways to improve the effectiveness of Defender. You don’
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Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt
Rocket engines use a multitude of cooling concepts to keep them from melting themselves. Learn more about engine cooling in this article.
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The Age of PageRank Is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
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Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
Remix is joining Shopify
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Success and Failure at Pebble
We launched Pebble on Kickstarter 10 years ago today! It was an amazing ride and I learned a lot from the experience. Story time…
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Mainnet Merge Announcement
- Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After this,...
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Hackers gaining power of subpoena via fake “emergency data requests”
There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending…
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It’s not still the early days of blockchain
When I speak about the inefficiency of popular blockchains, or mention that we seem to be hurtling towards a 'web3' so centralized it challenges big tech's firm grasp on today's web, or point out that somehow no one has managed to find a positive use for blockchains that wouldn't be better served by one of the many…
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Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
During interviews, technical skills in the industry are still largely vetted through LeetCode-style questions. These are small algorithmic riddles in the for...
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Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
So you’ve washed your sheets and vacuumed under the couch in the name of spring cleaning. But what about your online clutter? Apps that delight, inform a
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Don’t think to write, write to think
This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on this topic, the implications are less clear: Writing is the planning process and the final product: You don’t design a…
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There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge
I present to you: The GB Interceptor. It is an adapter that goes between an unmodified Game Boy and the cartridge and offers a video stream of the game via USB. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. The video above should give you a good overview of what it does, how it works and what its limitations are…
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Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal
Pay more attention to people who are just a little bit ahead of you
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Fake IMDB credits
I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.
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I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people
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SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
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TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
TomTom is redefining not just how maps are made, but the entire ecosystem around them too. It'll lay the foundation for a future of innovative location tech.