How companies alienate engineers by getting out of the innovation business
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
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Bert Hubert's writings
How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents - Bert Hubert's writings
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities.
Hi everyone,
This is a transcript of my presentation over at the European Microwave Week 2020, actually held in 2021. You can find the video here and the slides here. I’d like to…
Hi everyone,
This is a transcript of my presentation over at the European Microwave Week 2020, actually held in 2021. You can find the video here and the slides here. I’d like to…
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911/8081249
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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?
Why do certain random strings produce colors when entered as background colors in HTML?
For example, bgcolor="chucknorris" produces a red background:
<body bgcolor="chucknorris">...
For example, bgcolor="chucknorris" produces a red background:
<body bgcolor="chucknorris">...
Is the era of reflection-heavy C# libraries at an end?
https://blog.marcgravell.com/2021/05/is-era-of-reflection-heavy-c-libraries.html
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Is the era of reflection-heavy C# libraries at an end?
I’m going to talk about reflection-heavy libraries; I will describe the scenario I’m talking about - as it is commonly used today, the stat...
ProgrammerHumor.io: know your memes, running OCR to auto categorize and tag memes
https://programmerhumor.io
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ProgrammerHumor.io: know your memes, running OCR to auto...
Posted in r/programming by u/nickthegeek1 • 188 points and 18 comments
How setting arbitrary deadlines can hurt developers
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/how-setting-arbitrary-deadlines-can-hurt-developers-aa663df4d7ad?sk=fa789f2b991f412d203337e8323de834
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Medium
How Setting Arbitrary Deadlines Can Hurt Developers
Deadlines scare me. “We need this app to go live next week” is something you most likely heard before, and you feared.
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion
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The Verge
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
Workers had questions, leadership did not have answers
Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198#:~:text=Catala%20aims%20to%20bring%20together,incorrect%20implementations%20of%20the%20law
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03198#:~:text=Catala%20aims%20to%20bring%20together,incorrect%20implementations%20of%20the%20law
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Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
Posted in r/programming by u/binarynate • 524 points and 204 comments
DoorDash: Migrating From Python to Kotlin for Our Backend Services
https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/04/migrating-from-python-to-kotlin-for-our-backend-services/
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DoorDash Engineering Blog
Migrating From Python to Kotlin for Our Backend Services
To support our migration to microservices we needed to find a new tech stack. Learn how we compared all the options and chose Kotlin
How I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2021/05/05/how-i-hacked-google-app-engine-anatomy-of-a-java-bytecode-exploit.html
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Considerations on Codecrafting
How I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit
Back in college, I was very interested in Java bytecode. When I got an internship at Google in 2013, I was skeptical of the security of the Java version of Google App Engine and got permission to spend the last week of my internship doing a mini red team…
New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/new-spectre-attack-once-again-sends-intel-and-amd-scrambling-for-a-fix/
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Ars Technica
New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
A new transient execution variant is the first exploit micro-ops caches.
Kotlin 1.5.0 – the First Big Release of 2021
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/05/kotlin-1-5-0-released/
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The JetBrains Blog
Kotlin 1.5.0 – the First Big Release of 2021 | The Kotlin Blog
Kotlin 1.5.0 delivers stable language features, the new default JVM IR compiler, improvements to the standard and test libraries, and more.
Bootstrap 5
https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2021/05/05/bootstrap-5/
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Bootstrap Blog
Bootstrap 5
Bootstrap 5 has officially landed! After three alphas, three betas, and several months of hard work, we’re shipping the first stable release of our new major version. It’s been a wild ride made possible by our maintainers and the amazing community that uses…
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/05/twilio_codecov_attack/
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The Register
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered
An extension that automatically removes tracking elements from URLs
https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/
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GitHub
GitHub - ClearURLs/Addon: ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking…
ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy. - ClearURLs/Addon
Linux's Technical Advisory Board reports on the UMN 'Hypocrite Commits' patches
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxs-technical-advisory-board-reports-on-the-umn-hypocrite-commits-patches/
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ZDNet
Linux's Technical Advisory Board reports on the UMN 'Hypocrite Commits' patches
The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, which is made up of top Linux kernel developers, reports on what was found in its complete examination of University of Minnesota patches.
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages [2015]
https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7#.dzqq7q4o7
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Discord
Discord Blog
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
How we moved from MongoDB to Postgres without downtime and cut our costs by 30%
https://www.voucherify.io/blog/how-we-moved-from-mongodb-to-postgres-without-downtime-and-cut-our-costs-by-30
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How We Moved From MongoDB to Postgres Without Downtime?
How to migrate databases ensuring continuous site reliability? What are the differences between Mongo DB and Postgres? Voucherify’s story of switching databases without downtime.
Safari is the new Internet Explorer... I thought this when I came across this issue, there's way too many issues like this one.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/262158/disabled-input-text-color
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Disabled input text color on iOS
The simple HTML below displays differently in Firefox and WebKit-based browsers (I checked in Safari, Chrome and iPhone).
In Firefox both border and text have the same color (#880000), but in Safar...
In Firefox both border and text have the same color (#880000), but in Safar...