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The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon.

It all started in September 2015. I had recently graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, where I had studied Information Technology, and I was flying out to San Francisco to join the ranks of …

Eyal Ronen, Colin O’Flynn, Adi Shamir and Achi-Or Weingarten Creating an IoT worm Within the next few years, billions of IoT devices will densely populate our cities. In this paper we describe a new type of threat in which adjacent IoT devices will infect each other with a worm that will spread explosively over large areas in a kind of nuclear chain reaction, provided that the density of compatible IoT devices exceeds a certain critical mass.

I've just created an intensive video course designed to help you think differently about what you make and why. It's for marketers, founders, freelancers, fundraisers, teachers and c…

Eclipse Che Next-Generation Eclipse IDE.

Did you notice, that out testing framework quits on the first failure? It probably should run all tests, collect all failures and present them nicely. This is what we are going to accomplish today...

'Open-O' is backed by Huawei, China Mobile, Ericsson and Intel, among others

second version of GraphQL CMS

I've been a fan of Visual Studio Code (the free code editor) since it was ...

F5 Networks today unveiled a series of solutions and innovations designed for customers requiring rich, consistent application services across private, public, and hybrid cloud application deployments. In addition, F5 announced combined solutions with

Lightning Fast, Super Simple web framework for Crystal

How the dominance of politics by the affluent & business undermines economic mobility in America.

Learn how to ship, parse, store, and analyze logs.

Time has passed since our last interview for This is not a Monad Tutorial. OpenBSD released its 6.0 version after 20 years of continues…

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This post was origionally written in 2012, and later revised in 2014. At the time, I refrained from posting it due to concerns about how certain topics were articulated, and how it might be recieved in the community. After accidentially publishing this in 2016, the positive feedback I recieved encouraged me to release this officially. The article is an opinion piece that I hope resonates with other functional programmers. Certainly, not everyone will agree with what’s written here, and that’s absolutely fine with me.

As the initial shock is wearing off (or at least changing) I am starting to think of other models for understanding what happened in this election. The

Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.

In this post we will be discussing about gracefully shutting down Nodejs server. When you shutdown a server there are exchange of protocol messages between two endpoints known as shutdown sequence. Shutdown sequence are of two types graceful and abortive.

Organizations are built on the work of people who don’t get paid very much, don’t receive sufficient respect and are understandably wary of the promises they’ve been hearing for years. Calling thes…

How replacing costly mainframes with virtual assets speeds the testing process, reduces time to market, and increases agility.

Sasha Goldshtein reviews the modern tracing landscape—ftrace, perf_events, kprobes, uprobes, eBPF—uncovering what insight into system activity these tools can offer.