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May 16, 2019
Code completion for Pharo is in GSoC again, looking at type inference and statistical ordering based on recent classes! https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/improving-code-completion-gsoc-2019-introduction-de36e106a12f
May 16, 2019
Zero cost abstractions, and what persuades other developers to use our abstractions: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/
May 16, 2019
Wonderful article on Racket, phase separation when expanding macros, and Racket's logging tooling:
Defeating Racket’s separate compilation guarantee
May 16, 2019
Trialling a simpler UI for Twitter, without like/retweet counts:
Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At One Another
Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At One Another
Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be.
May 15, 2019
IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that people are committing fraud to obtain them!
Close to 735K Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Have Been Uncovered and Revoked, ARIN Reveals
Close to 735K Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Have Been Uncovered and Revoked, ARIN Reveals
The American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd. (ARIN) has won a legal case against an elaborate multi-year scheme to defraud the Internet community of approximately 735,000 IPv4 addresses, the organization has revealed. While the specifics of the findings are not released, John Curran, ARIN President and CEO said the fraud was detected as a result of an internal due diligence process.
May 15, 2019
Powershell 7, and how the Linux userbase has overtaken Windows! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/the-next-release-of-powershell-powershell-7/
May 15, 2019
Reflections on Maxis, SimCity, and world views in computer games: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/video-games-are-better-without-characters/387556/
May 15, 2019
Computer Utopias: notes from a course with some fabulous discussion of tech today, how we think about it, and what it could be: https://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/
May 14, 2019
Rust 1.34.0 had a security vulnerability that allowed reading/writing memory out of bounds!
Redirect
May 14, 2019
Markets are bigger, and companies are more valuable, because the internet has allowed them reach many more people: https://blog.eladgil.com/2019/05/markets-are-10x-bigger-than-ever.html
May 14, 2019
@cwebber@octodon.social How so? What conclusion did you draw?
May 14, 2019
Exploring creation-oriented UI design for tablets with a touch screen:
Just a moment...
May 14, 2019
Many services are built on open source services, but today's model is monetising *state*:
What comes after open source? — Denis Nazarov
May 14, 2019
Online videos are often a great historical reference for obsolete computer games, because they show the game in context of an active community: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/06/how-youtube-lets-plays-are-preserving-video-game-history/ (I suppose this also applies to MUDs and online communities that aren't gaming related.)
May 14, 2019
Yet another side channel attack in CPUs: https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-side-channel-attack/ (Big incentive to upgrade when fixed chips are available!)
Intel CPUs impacted by new Zombieload side-channel attack | ZDNET
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