If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement.
“Honey Encryption” Could Trick Criminals with Spoof DataAri Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography protecting our sensitive data: trickery.
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know - jsFiddle demoAs a Systems Engineer, I spend a good chunk of time automating as much of my day as I can. I work for a company that has a lot of legacy systems that can sometimes require a lot of legwork for trivial tasks – we’ll sort the problems, but it won’t be overnight.
There are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All!A few months ago I saw a blog post touting fancy new SSE3 functions for implementing vector floor, ceil, and round functions. There was the inevitable proud proclaiming of impressive performance and correctness.
z44bhed.png (4535×2787)The story of Mel Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983. A recent article devoted to the *macho* side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: Real Programmers write in Fortran.
Some characteristics of the best developers I worked withI had a conversation last November on the PyConEs, when I was on a conversation stating that I am working with truly brilliant people in DemonWare, and then someone asked me: “Do you have problems agreeing in what to do? Normally great developers have problems reaching consensus on tech discuss
A Complete Understanding is No Longer PossibleAmit Singh's Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach is a good place to start. It's not about programming so much as an in-depth discussion of how all the parts of the operating system fit together: what the firmware does, the sequence of events during boot-up, what device drivers do, and so on.
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.
