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Reversing for dummies - x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly) · 0x41.cf
https://0x41.cf/reversing/2021/07/21/reversing-x86-and-c-code-for-beginners.html

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Reversing for dummies - x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD...
Posted in r/programming by u/TheAndroidGeek • 462 points and 32 comments
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Programming
"My Code is Self-Documenting"
https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/jan/27/code-is-self-documenting/

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"My Code is Self-Documenting"
Posted in r/programming by u/traal • 154 points and 170 comments
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Programming
How Estonia's Management of Legacy IT Has Helped It Weather the Pandemic
https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/estonia-manages-legacy-it

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IEEE Spectrum
How Estonia's Management of Legacy IT Has Helped It Weather the Pandemic
While the rest of the world struggled to shift work and school online, Estonia was already there
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Malicious NPM Package Steals Passwords via Chrome’s Account-Recovery Tool
https://threatpost.com/npm-package-steals-chrome-passwords/168004/

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Threat Post
NPM Package Steals Passwords via Chrome’s Account-Recovery Tool
In another vast software supply-chain attack, the password-stealer is filching credentials from Chrome on Windows systems via ChromePass.
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Programming
Bad management kills and developers can only compensate so much
https://iism.org/article/the-case-for-statistical-chaos-control-in-software-40

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iiSM.ORG
The Case for Statistical Chaos Control in Software
Even quality minded companies can struggle with accumulating sources of chaos in software
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Programming
Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/bugs_expense_bs/

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The Register
Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist
It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert
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Programming
Akamai Edge DNS is experiencing an outage
https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

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Akamai
Akamai Edge DNS and GTM Status
Welcome to Akamai Edge DNS and GTM's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
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Programming
The Case for Location-Independent Salaries
https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/the-case-for-location-independent-salaries

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Revenuecat
The Case for Location-Independent Salaries
I want to talk about why we decided to go for the equal pay for equal work route at RevenueCat. This is the approach that fits our company and values the best, but that doesn't mean it's the right or only way of doing remote compensation.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/data-infrastructure/mysql/

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Engineering at Meta
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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Programming
Gamasutra - The Microsoft Game Development Kit is now available for free on GitHub
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/385556/The_Microsoft_Game_Development_Kit_is_now_available_for_free_on_GitHub.php

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GAMASUTRA
The Microsoft Game Development Kit is now available for free on GitHub
Microsoft has released its Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK) onto GitHub for free. Writing on the Game Stack Blog, the Xbox maker said it wants to "enable any creator, anywhere on the planet, to make games for our ecosystem."
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Programming
Images are hard.
https://css-tricks.com/images-are-hard/

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CSS-Tricks
Images are hard. | CSS-Tricks
Putting images on websites is incredibly simple, yes? Actually, yes, it is. You use <img> and link it to a valid source in the src attribute and you're
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Programming
Simulating poor network connections so you can build better systems.
https://github.com/tylertreat/comcast

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GitHub
GitHub - tylertreat/comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems.
Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems. - tylertreat/comcast
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Deepmind will release a database of almost every protein encoded by the human genome under CC-BY 4.0 license.
https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

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alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
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Confessions of a 0.8x Developer
https://raddevon.com/articles/confessions-of-a-0-8x-developer/

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Rad Devon
How I built a web development career w/o being fast or smart
I have a confession to make: I'm not a very good developer. Definitely not a 10x developer – more like a 0.8x. Here's how I make an awesome living despite that.
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5 Properties of an healthy Software Product
https://dominikbraun.io/blog/5-properties-of-an-healthy-software-product

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dominikbraun.io
5 properties of a healthy software project – dominikbraun.io
When joining a new team, figuring out whether a project is maintained properly often isn't easy - but there are some aspects healthy projects have in common.
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Programming
Why "learn to code" is bullshit advice for 99% of non-technical founders and professionals — and how to develop *technical intuition and fluency* instead, which will grow your career faster.
https://sanpram.com/2021/05/25/ultimate-guide-to-software/

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Why "learn to code" is bullshit advice for 99% of non-technical...
Posted in r/programming by u/mngrwl • 1,694 points and 319 comments
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Omission of a single '&' has caused Google to brick Chrome OS devices
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/

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Ars Technica
Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices
Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords. A fix is rolling out.
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Fluxsort: A branchless sorting algorithm 2.5 times faster than std:stable_sort
https://github.com/scandum/fluxsort

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GitHub
GitHub - scandum/fluxsort: A fast branchless stable quicksort / mergesort hybrid that is highly adaptive.
A fast branchless stable quicksort / mergesort hybrid that is highly adaptive. - scandum/fluxsort
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Programming
You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries: "37.2% of vulnerabilities are memory safety issues, indicating that systems-level bugs are a greater security concern than the actual cryptographic procedures." [abstract + link to PDF, 15pp]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04940

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You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of...
Posted in r/programming by u/flexibeast • 195 points and 18 comments
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Programming
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript (using Seam Carving algorithm)
https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/

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trekhleb.dev
Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript | Trekhleb
JavaScript implementation of so-called Seam Carving algorithm for the content-aware image resizing and objects removal. Dynamic programming approach is applied to optimize the resizing time.
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