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Context Graph: It’s time to bring context back to the web(medium.com)
4 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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'She has a name': Amazon's Alexa is a sleeper hit, with serious superfans(theguardian.com)
3 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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'It sounded like my child': the 'virtual kidnappers' scamming Americans(theguardian.com)
3 points by philbo 10y ago|0 comments
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Stolen Passwords Used to Break into Firefox Accounts(blog.mozilla.org)
4 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
Within 100–500 meters of the wire anyone who was not able to officially explain their presence was summarily executed. The youngest person to be executed was a four year old.
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by philbo 11y ago
> Until you get used to the debugger, you will ask yourself this question. As a counterpoint to this, I was pretty much exclusively a debugger guy for the first 10-12 years of my career. Now I'm pretty much exclusively a logging kin
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High Performance JavaScript via Data Oriented Design(thomcc.io)
3 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
Tangential note: Shazam was launched in 1999.
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by philbo 11y ago
This post misses, for me, the greatest benefit of programming without syntax highlighting enabled. I went through a period of doing it for 5 years or so and the biggest effect was ultimately on how I wrote code, not how I read it. Without s
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Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender Hiroo Onoda dies (2014)(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
It's not exactly the same, but the closest thing to a "C++: The Good Parts" is Scott Meyers' "Effective C++", imho.
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Over-compensate to compensate(sivers.org)
2 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley matchmaker helps tech's rich but 'clueless' bachelors find love(theguardian.com)
3 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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Inside the mind of Raoul Moat(theguardian.com)
1 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
I have no idea about leading , but the two JS-specific places I go are: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript http://www.echojs.com/ Edit to add the esdiscuss mailing list if you want talk about the lan
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Postmortem on a beta regression(mail.mozilla.org)
40 points by philbo 11y ago|11 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
For the best description of technical debt, you can't do better than listen to the man who first coined the term. Ward Cunningham explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
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James Long: the Top Secret developer on how video games can change the world(theguardian.com)
3 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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New command for Philae(dlr.de)
42 points by philbo 11y ago|5 comments
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Alien life could thrive in ancient star clusters(nature.com)
84 points by philbo 11y ago|91 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
The obvious answer would be that you don't take on clients who are asking for a missile control system.
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by philbo 11y ago
I'm fortunate enough to have joined a team where this frequently happens. We have people in pacific, eastern, european and antipodean timezones and things often pan out like you describe. It requires everyone to be both conscious of an
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Firefox OS Pivot to Connected Devices(blog.mozilla.org)
14 points by philbo 11y ago|1 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
...no matter how comprehensive your testing is (and most isn't, since there's almost always a bias towards testing things which should suceed rather than testing things which should fail) it will never cover as many
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Half of world's rare antelope population died within weeks(theguardian.com)
4 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments
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by philbo 11y ago
It can, using either basic auth or by scripting submission of login forms. Probably obvious, but you should avoid doing it from one of the public instances. Building your own private instance is as easy as spinning up a prepared EC2 image,
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by philbo 11y ago
Surely the first bit of advice in any post about analysing website performance should be: USE WEBPAGETEST It gives you access to everything Chrome dev tools do, plus so much more: * speed index as a metric for the visual perception
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by philbo 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1uudtc/the_origins_...
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by philbo 11y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10041046
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The Persuasion Reading List(blog.dilbert.com)
3 points by philbo 11y ago|0 comments

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