Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB - joepie91's Ramblings
... so realistically, there's nothing it's good at, and a bunch of stuff it's outright bad at. And these bulletpoints are facts, not 'just your opinion'. You can go out and verify them yourself.
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Posted on 2015-07-21T08:15:40+0000
Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free
Last year, a young man walked into the Seattle airport and took the next flight to anywhere — and he hasn't come down since
Gérard de Villiers, the Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much
The espionage thrillers of Gérard de Villiers have more than the ring of truth to them.
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Posted on 2015-07-19T02:02:01+0000
An Identity Thief Explains the Art of Emptying Your Bank Account
Meet Dmitry Naskovets, the con man from Minsk
Hasnain says:
A good read. Also, an interesting way to get to the US: commit crimes, get extradited to a US prison, then claim amnesty when your sentence is over... (not saying it's easy)
Posted on 2015-07-19T02:01:14+0000
The end of capitalism has begun
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
Hasnain says:
This is a really interesting read and quite thought provoking. I feel like getting the book...
Posted on 2015-07-19T01:58:33+0000
How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq » SkullSecurity
How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq Leave a reply If you know me, you know that I love DNS. I'm not exactly sure how that happened, but I suspect that Ed Skoudis is at least partly to blame. Anyway, a project came up to evaluate dnsmasq, and being a DNS server - and…
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Posted on 2015-07-16T16:48:42+0000
Potato paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Potato Paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result. The "paradox" involves dehydrating potatoes by a seemingly minuscule amount, and then calculating a change in mass which is larger than expected. This is not to be confused for the Potato-Effect, which is sometimes…
Angry Amazon customers vent over sale fail
Disappointed Amazon customers turned to Twitter to vent their frustration over what they called "unhappy Prime Day."
The Netflix Tech Blog: Tracking down the Villains: Outlier Detection at Netflix
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How Google Sparsehash achieves two bits of overhead per entry using sparsetable
Google Sparsehash is one of the most space efficient hash tables, but how does it achieve two bits of overhead per entry?