For years we’ve been told that the JVM’s amazing optimizers can take your running code and make it “fast” or “as fast as C++” or “as fast as C”…or sometimes “faster than C”. And yet we don’t often see this happen in practice, due in large part to (good and bad) development pa
The Harmful Consequences of Postel's MaximNetwork Working Group M.
Man Noticed This Abandoned Hangar But Whats Inside Caught Him By SurpriseUrban explorer and photographer Ralph Mirebs found something very rare; a find unlike anything we’ve seen before. While venturing around Kazakhstan, Ralph came across an enormous abandoned building. At first, the building looked similar to a large airport hangar but much larger.
Breaking the house — MediumThis is the story of how we lost around $1 million worth of bitcoin to a hacker who exploited our online casino’s RNG system. This happened last year, but we’ve decided to share our experience for transparency and so that others can learn from our mistakes.
Answers to password reset questions are passwords too — so why aren’t you treating them that way?If you’re a developer working on or maintaining a website catering to the general public, chances are you’ve implemented some form of password reset via security question-and-answer into your site.
Nee, je hebt wél iets te verbergenVan het massaal surveilleren van burgers door de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst National Security Agency (NSA) tot de verplichte vingerafdruk in het paspoort: onze privacy staat onder druk. In Nederland worden de zorgen hierover niet breed gedeeld.
Why I do Open Source and why sometimes I shouldn’t — MediumI consider myself a big fan of open source. It’s not always been this way for me, though. There was a time when I never gave too much thought to it. There were these communities sharing code, every once in a while I took something from them, and that was pretty much it.
Faster computers, coming soon, as graphics chip answers the call to actionThis year, a new way to handle graphics chips will speed up everything on your computer -- from Photoshop to a first-person shooter.
A Few Valid Reasons to Reject a Bug FixA bug exists when something doesn't work as expected. A bug fix is basically a patch (a pull request) to the existing code base that is supposed to solve the problem and make sure that "something" works as expected. Very often, such a patch fixes one thing and breaks many others.
SQL Server 2016: Stretch DatabaseSQL Server 2016’s new stretch database feature promises to offer local server performance for hot data and cloud storage for old data without any change to the application.
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.