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If you’re a Linux administrator, there will be times when you have to work with the command line… many times. There’s a reason for that. With the command line comes great power and flexibility. For that very reason, you need to know the command line and know it well. One area that you need a […]

On the night of February 27th, 2010, Luis Enriquez had just gotten home from his job at a lumber factory in Constitución, Chile. At around three o’clock in the morning, Luis started to feel the earth shake. It was an earthquake—a bad one. With a magnitude of 8.8, the quake that hit Constitución was the second biggest that the world

📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide. Contribute to open-guides/og-aws development by creating an account on GitHub.

What happened to the once venerable tradition of the army surplus store? In this article we chart its rise and fall.

It is not news that offloading work from CPUs to GPUs can grant radical speedups, but what can come as a surprise is that scaling of these workloads

At Localytics we build command line interfaces that manage our infrastructure and processes. This is our list of best practices that we’ve learned.

My all-time favorite scene in The Matrix, if not in all of moviedom, is the one where Trinity needs to know how to fly a helicopter. “Tank, I need a pilot program for a B-212.” Her eyel…

Without your consent most major web platforms leak whether you are logged in. This allows any website to detect on which platforms you're signed up. Since there are lots of platforms with specific demographics an attacker could reason about your personality, too.

Explosive growth and change in China means many things must be built. They are not built well, writes British ex-pat James Palmer. The apartment is five years old. By Chinese standards, it’s far be…

Using an Arduino and 1Sheeld, Integreight embedded engineer Eslam Ali set his office clock up to preview the traffic going home. If you work in a traffic-prone area, there’s always a debate as to whether you should go home at the normal time or wait a few minutes to leave and avoid the traffic. To help make that […]

Great teardown video below by electronupdate of a good ol’ SIM card – you and I likely have one if not more of these in our pockets right this very second! Electronupdate does a great r…

Crafted by experienced object-oriented practitioners, design patterns can make your designs more flexible, more resilient to change, and easier to maintain.

Best practices for optimizing mobile web apps.

This chapter from Lean UX, 2nd Edition discusses how blending Lean UX and Agile can create a more productive team and a more collaborative process.

This report explores how political data science helps to drive everything from overall strategy and messaging to individual voter contacts and advertising.

Take it, DevOps with it, bring it back – if you want

Gadi Amit from FitBit conceived the idea of Scrip. Scrip is designed with an idea to remove cash transactions from our daily lives.

GIGABYTE has updated its BRIX family of small form-factor PCs with Intel’s latest Core processors featuring the optimized Kaby Lake microarchitecture. The new systems...

If you are on Linux, and are searching for applications that let you create a to-do list and keep you updated with latest news, you dont have to look...

[Image: Thomas More’s Utopia]. 2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. More not only coined the term now used interchangeably with visions of an ideal society, …

It occurs to me that there are two related by separate ways to disrupt elections: 1. You can actually attack the system and affect the outcome in some way

Node.js USDT probe tracing using Linux enhanced BPF (eBPF) and bcc.

The latest chip in the iPhone 7 has 3.3 billion transistors packed into a piece of silicon around the size of a small coin. But the trend for smaller, increasingly powerful computers could be coming to ...