USB Killer
It was a usual gloomy winter morning. My colleagues and I were drinking our morning coffee, sharing the news and
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Posted on 2015-03-10T16:44:19+0000
Bill Watterson talks: This is why you must read the new ‘Exploring Calvin and Hobbes’ book
Coming out tomorrow, the bound catalog for OSU's Bill Watterson retrospective offers a rarity of a revealing, in-depth interview.
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Posted on 2015-03-10T15:54:08+0000
Raytracing a Black Hole
It's now clear I'm on a Black Hole binge (I can stop when I want, by the way). They're endlessly fascinating. My recent interest was in particular focused on simulating visualizations of the Schwarzschild geometry. I was preoccupied by the problem of generating a decent accurate representation of ho…
Hasnain says:
Raytracing a black hole. I didn't follow all the math though
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:33:20+0000
Apple - MacBook
The incredibly thin and light new MacBook features a stunning 12-inch Retina display, a redesigned keyboard, and the new Force Touch trackpad.
Hasnain says:
The new MacBook. I haven't seen this many comments on a link in a while...
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:19:46+0000
Announcing Starfighter
Thomas Ptacek, Erin Ptacek, and I are pleased to announce Starfighter, a company that will publish CTFs (games) that are designed to develop, improve, and assess rare, extremely valuable programmin...
Hasnain says:
This is awesome! A great approach to hiring, from some really well known people. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:15:01+0000
Lint For Math
Can we remove simple errors from math proofs? simple-talk interview source Stephen Johnson is one of the world's top programmers. Top programmers are inherently lazy: they prefer to build tools rat...
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Posted on 2015-03-09T16:22:01+0000
Five minutes with Mariana Mazzucato: "We have socialised the risk of innovation but privatised...
The public sector is often seen as sclerotic and conservative in contrast with a dynamic and innovative private sector. This assumption lies at the basis of much of the outsourcing of public servic...
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" When Google received funding for its algorithm from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is it right that after it earned billions nothing went back to the NSF (which is today starved of funds), or that some of Apple’s profits go into a national innovation fund to fund the next wave of Apples?"
Posted on 2015-03-09T16:16:08+0000
DevOps Is Bullshit: Why One Programmer Doesn't Do It Anymore
The story of one programmer's journey into, and vehement rejection of, this thing we call "DevOps" - lessons learned, sound advice and why you're probably doing it all wrong.
Click to view the original at lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com
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Posted on 2015-03-09T15:57:18+0000
The Hiring Post
The Hiring Post 06 March 2015 1 The software developer job interview doesn’t work. Companies should stop relying on them. The savviest teams will outcompete their peers by devising alternative hiring schemes. Years from now, we’ll look back at the 2015 developer interview as an anachronism, akin to…
Hasnain says:
Oh man. What a great read on hiring practices that I think every company should follow
Posted on 2015-03-07T01:04:40+0000
people.torproject.org
On March 4th, 2015, we found a tracking device inside of the wheel well of a car belonging to an attendee of the Circumvention Tech Festival in Valencia, Spain. This was reported in the local media.