How Academia and Publishing are Destroying Scientific Innovation: A Conversation with Sydney...
Left to right: Hugh Huxley, John Kendrew, Max Perutz, Francis Crick, Fred Sanger, Sydney Brenner.
Hasnain says:
I think every person with an interest in academia should read this. There's so much in there that I can't even decide what to pick out to quote.
"SB: The thing is to have no discipline at all. Biology got its main success by the importation of physicists that came into the field not knowing any biology and I think today that’s very important.
I strongly believe that the only way to encourage innovation is to give it to the young. The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant. Because I think ignorance in science is very important. If you’re like me and you know too much you can’t try new things. I always work in fields of which I’m totally ignorant."
Posted on 2014-02-28T23:20:23+0000
An analysis of Facebook photo caching
Meet the engineers who code Facebook
Hasnain says:
This is an interesting analysis, and they link to the paper for people who want the details.
Posted on 2014-02-28T21:26:06+0000
How to turn a phone into a covert bugging device? Infect the printer
James Bond-style attack underscores growing vulnerability of embedded software.
ImperialViolet - TLS Symmetric Crypto
At this time last year, the TLS world was mostly running on RC4-SHA and AES-CBC. The Lucky 13 attack against CBC in TLS had just been published and I had spent most of January writing patches for OpenSSL and NSS to implement constant-time CBC decoding. The RC4 biases paper is still a couple of week…
http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/1976/robinson1976a.pdf
uvm.edu
Hasnain says:
"Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard: The men of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1972:
This research note presents sample-derived measures of comparative frequencies over time (1842-1972) for changing modes in men's facial barbering."
Posted on 2014-02-27T19:15:31+0000
OPPO N1
OPPO is a global technology brand, with a long history of serving customers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Hasnain says:
Why did I not hear of this earlier? The rear touch sounds perfect.
Posted on 2014-02-27T19:05:47+0000
Best of Red Dwarf in 10 Minutes
My favorite clips of Red Dwarf in under 10 minutes.
abudnik/tcalc
tcalc - C++ compile-time Prolog interpreter
Hasnain says:
Why?!
"C++ COMPILE-TIME PROLOG INTERPRETER
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C++ Templates are Turing Complete. It means that any computation expressible by
a computer program can be computed, in some form, by a template metaprogram."
High Scalability - High Scalability - The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next ...
Hasnain says:
This is a really interesting technical analysis. I can't wait for the talk in March.
Posted on 2014-02-26T18:13:52+0000
My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square
Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this decision. The moment she stepped off the elevator, she was met by co-worker after co-worker who need...