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(Photo By Sony promotional staff. Photo: Getty) For about a year of the time I worked on a videogames magazine, I shared my office space with a three-foot purple dildo called “the Penetrator”. The dil
Nathan Marz wrote a popular blog post describing an idea he called the Lambda Architecture (“ How to beat the CAP theorem “). The Lambda Architecture is an approach to building stream processing appli
Home Blog Alerting 10 Common Ops Mistakes by Tony Albanese June 30, 2014 Updated 7/24/2014: This blog post was updated to more accurately reflect Arup’s talk. Arup Chakrabarti, PagerDuty’s operations
The greatest jokes, Louis C.K. tells me, never register as jokes. Not quite. The punch line of a great joke may punctuate it and make people laugh, "but it doesn’t solve the joke, doesn’t stop it, so
I n the winter of 2011, a handful of software engineers landed in Boston just ahead of a crippling snowstorm. They were there as part of Code for America , a program that places idealistic young coder
I t was the summer of 1909. I was on the south coast of Spain. I remember it well because the season was almost over. Peace was within reach, I felt. There had been a vote to end the war, and the Engl
Published in The Message · 17 min read · May 20, 2014 -- Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and start
Edel Rodriguez “Fucking dumb bitch,” the message began, then went on to detail the manner in which Jenny Haniver should be sexually assaulted and murdered. Haniver (her gaming name, not her real one)
The idea of releasing a new currency as a mechanism for funding protocol development is perhaps one of the most interesting economic innovations to come out of the cryptocurrency space. In the past tw
We've just seen some amazing reports from the Washington Post about just a few ways NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal
Microservices - Not a free lunch! Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 8:54AM This is a guest post by Benjamin Wootton , CTO of Contino , a London based consultancy specialising in applying DevOps and Continuous
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 you don’t
2014-03-28 As a curmudgeon, I am often full of reckons. A reckon is often confused for an opinion, but it’s more like a heuristic. It isn’t always true in theory, but it’s often true in practice. Toda
March 24, 2014 | By Noah Slater | Legacy Apps in the Cloud In the previous post in this series, we discovered that setting up a server before you even boot it is not only possible, but gives enormous
The bitcoin block chain is well known for its use as a ledger for digital currency transactions, but it has the potential for other, more radical uses too – uses that are only now beginning to be expl
I started my career in 1981 working for 3 years at a defense contractor. By 1985 I started my first company to develop and then sell a spreadsheet like application for the Mac called Trapeze. It shipp
Visiting the ODNI Published in Notes from a Strange World · 16 min read · Mar 6, 2014 -- “It’s called ‘the crackpot realism of the present’” someone said to me, and handed me a note. I folded up the n
I was a historian before I was an activist, and I’ve been reminded recently that a lot of younger hackers have a simplified and somewhat mythologized view of how our culture evolved, one which tends t
According to me Amazon VPC is one of the most important feature introduced by AWS. We have been using AWS from 2008 and Amazon VPC from the day it was introduced and i strongly feel the customer adopt
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