Adsense Breakdown
Its coming up on 8 years ago in a few weeks now since I posted a cheque for 900k for 2 months of adsense revenue. I'm going to post the history of adsense from the day I added adsense to the sit...
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
A cancer doctor on losing his wife to cancer.
Hasnain says:
"We were finally caught in cancer’s Zugzwang, the point in the game where all possible moves make you worse off. The point that the other 40,000 women each year who die from breast cancer in the United States also encounter in one way or another. I will never again be mystified, as I had been with many patients, by why someone who is at the precipice of death seeks out yet another shot at treatment, even with something harmful that has a near-zero chance of helping. “Why not?” was suddenly a winning argument."
Posted on 2014-05-07T05:39:48+0000
Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration And More | TechCrunch
Google has updated its apps for iOS and Android with a bunch of new features, including Uber integration directly in its collection of options for travel..
PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython
It has been the better part of a year since I first started hacking on PyPy.js, an experiment in bringing a fast and compliant python interpreter to the web. I've been pretty quiet during that time but have certainly been keeping busy. Some of the big changes since my previous update include:
Hasnain says:
Yo Dawg, I heard you like JITs, so I put a JIT in your JIT so you can trace while you trace. (https://rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc-jit/resources/yo-dawg-jit.png)
Posted on 2014-05-06T17:19:57+0000
How to talk to an open source software project as a large scale or otherwise interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help. Feel free to also reach out privately and share that your post from gmail.com is actually (...
Hasnain says:
"In fact, next to development resources, a great community and funding, having impressive deployments is one of the most important things for an open source project."
Posted on 2014-05-06T17:18:31+0000
Observations of an Internet Middleman - Beyond Bandwidth
We received a lot of positive feedback, as well as a lot of questions when Mike posted his recent story, Chicken. Many of the questions asked for more spec
Hasnain says:
"That leaves the remaining six peers with congestion on almost all of the interconnect ports between us. Congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfil the requests their customers make for content.
Five of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All six are large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers."
Posted on 2014-05-05T23:09:35+0000
Doctors flunk quiz on screening-test math | Science News
Many doctors, and the news media, don’t understand that because of the statistics of screening tests, a test with 90 percent accuracy can give a wrong diagnosis more than 90 percent of the time.
Not Your Father's Java: An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
Despite it assosiation with large, bureacratic, and slow enterprise shops, and big, unwieldy frameworks, recent additions to the Java language, tooling, and libraries, combined with more lean programming styles, have turned programming Java into a rather pleasant experience.
Featherweight Musings: Rust for C++ programmers - part 4: unique pointers
I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron
Click to view the original at featherweightmusings.blogspot.com
Hasnain says:
Rust looks very exciting. The ownership semantics and low-level memory access may finally allow it to become a competitor to C/C++ for "systems" programming, which would be a huge plus.
Posted on 2014-04-29T17:09:32+0000
Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
A celebration of one of technology's biggest, most underappreciated revolutions