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Jan 29, 2016
"It is impossible to safely implement any cryptosystem providing forward secrecy in C."
Zeroing buffers is insufficient
Jan 29, 2016
Nice overview of undefined behaviour in LLVM: https://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/llvm-ub.pdf (looks like poison may be removed entirely!)
Jan 28, 2016
It's far too easy to just read the comments on HN/lobsters/etc without stopping to think about the content. I'm trying to skip them.
Jan 28, 2016
Why are our best tools for composing applications still copy-paste and pipes? Can we do better?
Chapter 8: Inter-process Communication
In our discussion about the difference between Human applications and their Houyhnhnm counterparts (I often pronounce "Houyhnhnm" as "Hunam"), I was intrigued by claims Ngnghm made (I usually call her "Ann") that communication was much easier between acti...
Jan 27, 2016
Hyperlinks aren't perfect: they're brittle, and links to specific headings break very easily. Nonetheless, foo.html#bar degrades admirably.
Jan 27, 2016
Adding NTP servers to public pools in order to find targets for port scanning: https://netpatterns.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-rising-sophistication-of-network.html (crikey!)
Patterns of the Internet: The Rising Sophistication of Network Scanning
Jan 27, 2016
I'm fascinated to learn that compiler plugins exist that earn you about numeric instability! https://github.com/mcarton/rust-herbie-lint (Rust in this example)
GitHub - mcarton/rust-herbie-lint: A rustc plugin to check for numerical instability
GitHub - mcarton/rust-herbie-lint: A rustc plugin to check for numerical instability
A rustc plugin to check for numerical instability. Contribute to mcarton/rust-herbie-lint development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jan 27, 2016
The Mythical Man-Finger https://stephenramsay.us/2011/07/25/the-mythical-man-finger/ (discusses the rise of GUIs over CLIs)
Page Not Found | Ramsay Law Guidance
Jan 26, 2016
Why did EA decide to write their own STL implementation? https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2271.html great discussion of tradeoffs, it's never one-size-fits-all
EASTL
Jan 26, 2016
'C is not a simple language... it's a simple machine model for building software on bare machines' https://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4554#comment-72306
Jan 24, 2016
Lisp tools often have great names. Today: metabang-bind: https://common-lisp.net/project/metabang-bind/user-guide.html (it's a neat, generalised destructuring-bind)
metabang-bind | Guide to the perplexed
Jan 24, 2016
Io is a really elegant language: https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html#Introduction (it's very OOP, even next to Smalltalk!)
io guide
Jan 23, 2016
We think of assemblers as being a simple mapping of mnemonics to opcodes, but there is ambiguity sometimes:
Assembly_is_Too_High_Level_-_SIB_Doubles
Jan 23, 2016
The Siren Call of Automated Browser Testing https://cugablog.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/the-siren-call-of-automated-browser-testing/ (great post that also correlates with my experience)
The Siren Call of Automated Browser Testing
The Siren Call of Automated Browser Testing
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Greek’s mythical Sirens. These were the seductive, deadly creatures who lured passing ships to certain doom upon the rocky coasts with such irresistible voic…
Jan 23, 2016
Apparently (according to the haskell-mode retrospective: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/wiki/Haskell-Mode-2015-retrospective ) lexical scoping produces better warning in Emacs!
Haskell Mode 2015 retrospective
Haskell Mode 2015 retrospective
Emacs mode for Haskell. Contribute to haskell/haskell-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.
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