Bookmarks tagged “tech”
1112 bookmarks tagged “tech”
Docker in Production: A History of Failure – The HFT Guy
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…
Introducing .NET Standard | .NET Blog
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’l
Troy Hunt: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps
In the beginning, there was the web and you accessed it though the browser and all was good. Stuff didn’t download until you clicked on something; you expected cookies to be tracking you and you always knew if HTTPS was being used. In general, the casual observer had a pretty goo
Interfaces are not abstractions
Interfaces are language constructs, whereas abstractions are conceptual. You can model abstractions with interfaces, but the use of interfaces in itself doesn't guarantee that you're programming with abstractions.
Dependency Injection is Loose Coupling
The overall purpose of Dependency Injection is to facilitate loose coupling.
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake
On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling addressed a packed room as…
An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media — The Message
Over the last few days, dozens of people have sent me a link to Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen.” Increasingly, I’m getting uncomfortable and angry by the…
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
The Man Who Made 'Tetris' | Motherboard
Life gets pretty chill after creating 'Tetris' and escaping the KGB.
The Secret Life of Passwords - NYTimes.com
We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.
How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets
"House of Cards" gives viewers exactly what Big Data says we want. This won't end well
The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete
Ben McGrath profiles Scarlett, the StarCraft competitor who is the most accomplished woman in the young history of e-sports.
Are Test Coverage Metrics Overrated?
I know a certain developer whose level of anxiety rises to disproportionate levels when his test coverage report returns a less-than-100% coverage. Whenever this happens, he will fiddle with his tests until he achieves the glorious 100% statistic - after which he will have earned
Why Use Node.js? A Comprehensive Tutorial with Examples | Toptal
Node.js can solve I/O scaling. Learn why and when to use Node.js in this tutorial.
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay | W
Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine fla
Drones and Everything After -- NYMag
The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes.
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… — Medium
If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined. Looking back, when I started 99dresses fresh out of high school I was…