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TCP is UNreliableMeans: I can cause TCP to reliably fail in under 5 mins, on at least 2 different modern Linux variants and on modern hardware, both in our datacenter (no hypervisor) and on EC2.
Programmer’s dilemmaRecently I interviewed tens of candidates for a kernel programmer’s position. These candidates are from big, good companies, which are famous for chips or embedded OS/systems. Many of them claimed they have at least 10 years on-job experience on kernel.
Callbacks as our Generations' Go To StatementThis week, as I was preparing my presentation on C# sung on iOS and Android, I came to the realization that callback-based programming has somehow become an acceptable programming model.
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as deadGoogle’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists. That’s according to former Google employees, one who spoke to Quartz on the condition of anonymity and others who have said it publicly.
The Perils of Future-CodingIn my opinion, one of the most insidious form of technical debt is what I like to call future-coding. You might also call it over-engineering, second-system syndrome, etc.
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The limits of Google’s opennessYou may be wondering what happened to the YouTube app for Windows Phone. Last May, after we launched a much improved app on our platform, Google objected on a number of grounds. We took our app down and agreed to work with Google to solve their issues.
Encryption is less secure than we thoughtFor 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong. Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation.
Identicons for .NETDon Park invented Identicons last week. An Identicon is a small, anonymized visual glyph that represents your IP address. Don explains it better than I do:
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.