Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel.
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CODETUNES · Digit is not a NumberThere is a well known thesis saying that “the language we use, shapes the world we live in.” It’s almost common knowledge nowadays, but still every now and then it comes to us as a surprise.
This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to ProgramThere's an initial shock-value teaser to keep you watching. News stories are read in a dramatic, sensationalist fashion by attractive people who fill most of the screen. There's an inset image over the shoulder of the reader.
No. 504 : Ethiopian Binary MathClick here for audio of Episode 504. Today, a witch doctor practices computer arithmetic. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
10-04-13 - The Reality of CodingHow you actually spend time. 4 hours - think about a problem, come up with a new algorithm or variation of algorithm, or read papers to find an algorithm that will solve your problem. This is SO FUCKING FUN and what keeps pulling me back in. 8 hours - do initial test implementation to prove concept.
You Must Try, and then You Must AskWhen I was a wee little New Hire at my current employer, one of the things that came up a lot was the "15 minute rule." That is, if you're stuck on a problem, take a solid 15 minutes to bash your brain against it in whatever manner you see fit.
NES Game Genie Technical NotesThe NES Game Genie from Galoob is a device that allows a player to enter a variety of codes into a Nintendo Entertainment System game in order to cause the game to do things it would not normally do, e.g.
Dance you Imps!There are several tools out there that promise to bridge the divide between objects and relational tables. Many of these tools are of high quality, and are very useful. They are collectively known as ORMs, which stands for Object Relational Mappers. There's just one problem.
Learn To Write Clean CodeHave you ever opened up a file before and thought to yourself “WTF?”. This probably happened because it was hard to read, there is so much code and logic going on at once and you are just counting the “WTFs per minute”.
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.