Huge amounts of aeronautical and hardware engineering effort went into the Apollo program from its birth in 1961 to its completion in 1972, as NASA and its partners designed the Saturn V rocket to get astronauts out of Earth's orbit, the command/service modules that orbited the moon, and the luna
The Role of a Senior DeveloperWe work in a strange industry. There is a much higher need for developers than can be satisfied by new developers coming into the field. This is a problem that has existed for years, and it is getting worse as time goes on.
Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key qualityIf you have just/as of late gotten an email about your keys being revoked, this is because of me, and if you have, you should really go through and make sure that no one has done anything terrible to you, since you have opened yourself to people doing very mean things to you for what is most likel
SQL Server to add JSON SupportSQL Server 2016 is expected to offer native support for working with JSON. The first iteration of this support will be released as part of SQL Server 2016’s CTP 2.
Rearchitecting GitHub PagesGitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions.
UCS vs UTF-8 as Internal String EncodingUnicode started out early as a 16bit encoding roughly equivalent to the now deprecated UCS2 encoding. When it became clear that Unicode needed more than ~16bit of characters the hope for having a fixed length encoding was not particularly high any more.
Don’t Dereference SymlinksIf your application dereferences symlinks by default, you are a jerk. Your software is bad, and you should feel bad. Why do you hate your users? On OS-X in the Finder, there is a neat pane on the left where you can bookmark your favorite places to get to them quickly and easily.
Unicode is Kind of InsaneUnicode aims to represent every possible character in every possible language in a single character encoding. Its an ambitious undertaking, the current version has mapped 113 thousand distinct characters to code points in Unicode - each one of which is given a unique name and description.
Thoughts on Keybase.ioOver the last couple of weeks, a startup called keybase.io has been making the rounds, promising a much simpler take on PGP. A more humane interface on GnuPG, visual design by a renowned artist, even a web interface for your crypto. Fantastic, right? Yeah, I can't get on board.
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace liz.
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.