The good folks at @defcon_music have blessed us with some big party info for #defcon32. "This year’s theme for our Friday Night party is “Retro Sci-Fi“ Be sure to bring your ray guns, Thought immobilizers, Robot sidekicks and of course your best spacesuit! Sci-Fi costume contest at Midnight! Winner gets $460 cash! (Costumes encouraged but not required.) For more keep an eye on defconmusic.org .
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Big Changes At Every Layer (Issue #168) 2024-06-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: Linux desktop movement gets a big boost, the dollar and petrodollar are dying, being a VC is changing, the surprisingly interesting history of men’s suits, EU elections and Microsoft & AI Issue details: Title: Big Changes At Every Layer Issue: 168 Page: issue webpage Another awesome is..
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Assumed Audience : Programmers, tech industrialists, and anyone else curious. Epistemic Status : Confident, but open to other ideas. Introduction I have said before that the software industry should professionalize. Where do we start? Well, if we professionalize, we will not be the first industry to do so, and we should learn from the paths that other industries have taken and what they have included required of profession..
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Assumed Audience : Programmers, tech industrialists, and anyone else curious. Epistemic Status : Confident, but open to other ideas. Introduction I have said before that the software industry should professionalize. Where do we start? Well, if we professionalize, we will not be the first industry to do so, and we should learn from the paths that other industries have taken and what they have included required of profession..
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Assumed Audience : Programmers, tech industrialists, and anyone else curious. Epistemic Status : Confident, but open to other ideas. Introduction I have said before that the software industry should professionalize. Where do we start? Well, if we professionalize, we will not be the first industry to do so, and we should learn from the paths that other industries have taken and what they have included required of profession..
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Assumed Audience : Programmers, tech industrialists, and anyone else curious. Epistemic Status : Confident, but open to other ideas. Introduction I have said before that the software industry should professionalize. Where do we start? Well, if we professionalize, we will not be the first industry to do so, and we should learn from the paths that other industries have taken and what they have included required of profession..
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
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nicolaiarocci.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Charity Majors 1 has a good, long-form article on the Stack Overflow blog . The title is misleading as, while AI’s impact on software engineering and its hiring process (spoiler: you’ll still want to hire junior engineers) is at the heart of the article, there’s so much more in it. It gets exciting in the second part, where she dispenses much from-the-trenches advice on team management and building. Hiring engineers is about composi..
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How do you find the most interesting or suspicious points within your data? What libraries and techniques can you use to detect these anomalies with Python? This week on the show, we speak with author Brett Kennedy about his book "Outlier Detection in Python."
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eBay’s Christine Su Named to Fast Company’s 2024 Queer 50 List
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innovation.ebayinc.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Su has found innovative new ways to use AI to personalize the eBay experience for sellers and buyers.
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This blog post is not about tracing program system calls, but about programmatically extracting all system calls and their accepted arguments in your current system. If you want to read more about tracing system calls, here’s my tutorial using strace for troubleshooting a real life scenario: Troubleshooting Linux SSH Login Delay - Why does logging in always take 10 seconds? 1 Update : I have also created a similar program tr..
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This blog post is not about tracing program system calls, but about programmatically extracting all system calls and their accepted arguments in your current system. If you want to read more about tracing system calls, here’s my tutorial using strace for troubleshooting a real life scenario: Troubleshooting Linux SSH Login Delay - Why does logging in always take 10 seconds? 1 Update : I have also created a similar program tr..
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I spent some time considering words to describe a chess position with many legal moves. “Complex” doesn’t quite capture the situation since we would usually describe a complex position as one with many tactical interations. Ramified seems to make the most sense, as it describes “branching out”. The opening position in chess has 20 legal moves. From there, the number of legal moves in a position tends to increase as pieces move towards ..
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Ep. 6: GoRoutines and Error Handling: Essential Techniques for Software Engineers
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www.ardanlabs.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Introduction: Continue the dive into the complexities of Go’s concurrency model in this segment of the “Ultimate Software Design” series, where Bill shares essential techniques for managing GoRoutines. Here are three fresh takeaways: Understand the critical role of maintaining proper parent-child relationships in GoRoutine operations to avoid unexpected behaviors and system failures. Gain insights into structured techniques for ter..
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Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a question to very experienced and successful developers at work, they have a tendency not to give context and to simplify things down to a single answer. This may ....
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Software isn't what it used to be. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does come with its own set of challenges. In the past, if you wanted to build a feature, you'd have to build it from scratch, without AI 😱 Fast forward from the dark ages of just
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I love this concise checklist on detecting fake experts, with which my experience wholeheartedly agrees. The first one: Imitators can’t answer questions at a deeper level. Specific knowledge is earned, not learned, so imitators don’t fully understand the ideas they’re talking about. Their knowledge is shallow. As a result, when you ask about details, first principles, or nonstandard cases, they don’t have good answers. For more adv..
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I like this emphasis on the impact of health on productivity: Biological health is upstream of mental health and mental health is upstream of productivity. Adding to this, I believe engaging in physical activities and working on improving one’s fitness has tremendous effect on productivity in long term. I play tennis regularly, the fact that I make progress in the court and I improve and become a better amateur player increases my co..
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I like this emphasis on the impact of health on productivity: Biological health is upstream of mental health and mental health is upstream of productivity. Adding to this, I believe engaging in physical activities and working on improving one’s fitness has tremendous effect on productivity in long term. I play tennis regularly, the fact that I make progress in the court and I improve and become a better amateur player increases my co..
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I like this emphasis on the impact of health on productivity: Biological health is upstream of mental health and mental health is upstream of productivity. Adding to this, I believe engaging in physical activities and working on improving one’s fitness has tremendous effect on productivity in long term. I play tennis regularly, the fact that I make progress in the court and I improve and become a better amateur player increases my co..
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Evidence That You Should Take Your Content Diet More Seriously
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saeedesmaili.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Interesting point about various types of content a creator can focus on: A surprising learning is that content funnels do not work. In theory, you produce entertaining, shortform content to get attention. Then once people are hooked they start consuming your deeper, educational, longform content. Except that this doesn’t happen. People who consume entertaining, shortform content are not interested in longform content. They just want mor..
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Evidence That You Should Take Your Content Diet More Seriously
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saeedesmaili.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Interesting point about various types of content a creator can focus on: A surprising learning is that content funnels do not work. In theory, you produce entertaining, shortform content to get attention. Then once people are hooked they start consuming your deeper, educational, longform content. Except that this doesn’t happen. People who consume entertaining, shortform content are not interested in longform content. They just want mor..
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Evidence That You Should Take Your Content Diet More Seriously
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saeedesmaili.com
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1 year ago
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eng
Interesting point about various types of content a creator can focus on: A surprising learning is that content funnels do not work. In theory, you produce entertaining, shortform content to get attention. Then once people are hooked they start consuming your deeper, educational, longform content. Except that this doesn’t happen. People who consume entertaining, shortform content are not interested in longform content. They just want mor..
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We’re doing a DevRomagna meetup on container security. It will happen on June 26 at 7pm, it will be in Italian, and the speaker will be the one and the only Ugo Lattanzi . Details and signup here .
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Learn about the risks associated with AI-generated code in software development. Gain actionable insights on how to AI coding risks in this article.
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Why “vulnerability management” falls short in modern application security
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snyk.io
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1 year ago
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eng
In this blog post, we discuss the how "vulnerability management" tends to fall short when approaching modern application security.
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The computer hardware landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade. What once was full of custom hardware are now consolidating into a few standards. The PS3 was one example of such custom hardware.
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A guilty pleasure of mine is the pursuit of perfection. It is certainly a vice in most contexts, but there are some problems whose solutions demand a measure of perfection. These are problems that I will refer to as "5-9 problems": problems whose solutions need five 9's (or more) in some dimension. Usually, those nines are correctness of some kind, but they can also be availability or for some systems, speed.
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Snyk and AWS announce native Amazon EKS support directly from the AWS Management Console
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snyk.io
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1 year ago
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eng
Snyk has now developed an AWS Marketplace add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) embedded directly into the AWS Management Console.
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Boost your Node.js skills with these backend code snippets for 2024. Copy and paste them into your own projects to save time when building backends.
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MapTiler Engine 13.3 has been released! This latest version brings great new features that help you to open and process your data faster, and merge two or more tilesets together.
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