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   Page Flips Are Better Than Infinite Scroll(designdare.com)

   41 points by alexkon 16y ago|16 comments
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   Peter Beverloo on Chromium development(peter.sh)

   5 points by alexkon 16y ago|0 comments
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   Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail(kaushik.net)

   2 points by alexkon 16y ago|0 comments
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   by alexkon 16y ago

   See the links in the navigation bar on the left for the actual text of the standard. These are prepublication drafts of chapters 1–7. They may still undergo minor editorial changes. The rest of the text is going to be available Real Soon No
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   Unicode 6.0.0 standard published(unicode.org)

   1 points by alexkon 16y ago|1 comments
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   by alexkon 16y ago

   Quick view: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nth-dime...
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   Exploiting the linker (library loading attacks)(nth-dimension.org.uk)

   3 points by alexkon 16y ago|1 comments
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   by alexkon 16y ago

   Quick view: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.mic...
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   Paxos Made Simple – concise explanation of the distributed agreement algorithm(research.microsoft.com)

   4 points by alexkon 16y ago|1 comments
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    by alexkon 16y ago

    Here are the results of some sample benchmarks. These are the same as those used in the paper "Regular Expression Matching in the Wild" by Russ Cox [1]. 500 MB file, regex: .*$ pcre 31.67 MB/s re2 242.28 MB/s pire 756.3
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    PIRE – really fast single-pass regex matching(github.com)

    34 points by alexkon 16y ago|17 comments
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    by alexkon 16y ago

    Quick view: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.casaba.c... An Internationalization and Unicode Conference presentation by Chris Weber discusses the security implications of various text transformations in Unicode.
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    Unicode Transformations & Security Vulnerabilities(casaba.com)

    1 points by alexkon 16y ago|1 comments
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    Hacking the TDSS botnet (16M hosts)(blog.alisa.sh)

    1 points by alexkon 16y ago|0 comments
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    Reliable backups: How to backup Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems properly(halfgaar.net)

    3 points by alexkon 17y ago|1 comments
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    Infographics by Michael Paukner: Earth, astronomy, geometry, fiction, art(flickr.com)

    1 points by alexkon 17y ago|0 comments
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    Introduction to Information Retrieval (online edition)(nlp.stanford.edu)

    2 points by alexkon 17y ago|0 comments
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    This reminds me of a presentation on regular expression DoS attacks: http://www.checkmarx.com/Upload/Documents/PDF/Checkmarx_OWAS... [pdf] Quick view: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.checkmarx... P. S. Corrected wordi
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    Did you check whether the downloads had been truncated? Downloads finishing prematurely is a frequent cause for a checksum mismatch.
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    See also a 2007 paper "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" by two of the same authors: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Quick view: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Flabs.google.c...
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    By Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto), Eduardo Pinheiro (Google), Wolf-Dietrich Weber (Google). Abstract: Errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in modern compute clusters. Failures are cos
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    DRAM Errors in the Wild: a large-scale field study [pdf](cs.toronto.edu)

    6 points by alexkon 17y ago|4 comments
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    If you're using Firefox, set security.OCSP.require to true. There is also UI for it under Preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption -> Validation -> When an OCSP connection fails, treat the certificate as invalid. I don't know w
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    Intel 64 is often referred to as amd64. IA-32 means i386.
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    Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals(intel.com)

    1 points by alexkon 17y ago|1 comments
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    diskchecker by Brad Fitzpatrick: does your storage stack lie about fsync()?(brad.livejournal.com)

    4 points by alexkon 17y ago|1 comments
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    Unicode Security Considerations(unicode.org)

    20 points by alexkon 17y ago|2 comments
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    C−−: a portable assembly language designed by Simon Peyton Jones et al.(cminusminus.org)

    30 points by alexkon 17y ago|9 comments
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    Architecture of the World Wide Web(w3.org)

    1 points by alexkon 17y ago|0 comments
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    by alexkon 17y ago

    There is an improvement over an HTTP redirect to the HTTPS site. Such redirects usually occur in the beginning of every session (or, at least, of some sessions). An active attacker could intercept the redirect at any time a-la Moxie Marlins