Isaac Asimov: How to never run out of ideas again / Boing Boing
Wikipedia says Isaac Asimov wrote 506 published books. Where did he get his ideas? Charles Chu says Asimov used a number of tactics: 1. Never Stop Learning “All this incredibly miscellaneous readin…
Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 / Boing Boing
Redditor Vadermeer was in a local Goodwill Outlet and happened on a trove of files from Apple engineer Jack MacDonald from 1979-80, when he was manager of system software for the Apple II and ///.
How the Neo4J Graph Database Helped Decipher the Panama Papers - The New Stack
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Phillip Rathle, Vice President of Products at Neo Technology. Last year, the Neo4J graph database helped the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism make sense of the now-infamous Panama Papers, allowing the organization to link the illicit activities of 320,000 offshore accounts, work that led to the resignation of Iceland’s…
Promises, Challenges Ahead for Near-Memory, In-Memory Processing
The idea of bringing compute and memory functions in computers closer together physically within the systems to accelerate the processing of data is not a
Toshiba reveals new 3D flash chip that can store 1TB | Computerworld
Toshiba has begun shipping samples of its third-generation 3D NAND memory product, a chip with 64 stacked flash cells. The move comes as suitors are eyeing a majority share of the company's memory business.
Everything You Need to Know About Cloudbleed, the Latest Internet Security Disaster
Have you heard? A tiny bug in Cloudflare’s code has led an unknown quantity of data—including passwords, personal information, messages, cookies, and more—to leak all over the internet. If you haven’t heard of the so-called Cloudbleed vulnerability, keep reading. This is a scary big deal.
Cloudbleed: When Hidden Trusted Parties Leak your Data - News - Blockstack Forums
Yesterday, it was revealed by Google’s Project Zero that Cloudflare (a popular Content Delivery Network) was leaking sensitive information between websites. For example, if Alice signed into OKCupid.com (which uses Cloudflare), Bob can see Alice’s password, her private messages, her full profile, and her credit card number by exploiting a bug in Cloudflare (by requesting a specially-crafted HTML page). This bug affects every site that uses Cloudflare, which number in the millions. The fundame...
"Deciding What Not To Do Is As Important As Deciding What To Do"
Steve Jobs was a lot of things, both positive and negative, but regardless of all that, he most certainly got things done. As the above quote reminds us, at least part of that was knowing when not to do something.
This is a story about the fun part of my job: getting handed something close to
the hardware and unexplainable, and tracking down the odd details that explain
it. What can I say, it beats code reviews and writing design docs. (All quotes
and all code here is paraphrased to omit confidential details and protect the
innocent; numbers have been replaced with representative but fake data; I don’t
speak for my employer or any of my coworkers.)
John Carmack on Twitter: "Abstraction trades an increase in real complexity for a decrease in perceived complexity. That isn't always a win."
Abstraction trades an increase in real complexity for a decrease in perceived complexity. That isn't always a win.— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 24, 2017
At this age and time that we live in, coding is simply invaluable. It has the power to uplift your career, your future prospects and even your intellectual capacity. Computation is driving one of the largest capital expansions in history and there has never been a better time to learn coding than now. But learning how to code can be challenging. It is hard to find good resources that are relevant, practical and engaging at the same time. This course teaches coding from scratch using the vastly popular programming language JavaScript. Using JavaScript and a programming library called p5.js, you will learn how to code in a highly engaging and visual manner. Find out more at: www.codingforvisuallearners.com
Build a JavaScript Development Environment in 30 minutes | Codemash 2017 | Channel 9
There’s a staggering number of decisions to make when setting up a JavaScript development environment. Let’s cut through the noise. In 30 minutes, we’ll run a single line of code to lint, bundle, mini
Abhishek Tiwari discusses how to use stored procedures to create a fast-track API transformation program on top of legacy systems, migrating business logic into a service tier, one store proc at a time.
Sad Topographies: A Collection of Dismal Places to Go When Feeling Low - 99% Invisible
The names of routes and places often tell short stories, providing glimpses into their history in just a handful of words. But not all of these are happy tales, as Cape Disappointment, Pointless Mountain, Loveless Lake, Hopeless Way and Camp Suicide Road can attest. These and many similarly dismal-sounding roads and locations can all be found searching Google
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