6 August 2020

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Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five 20th Anniversary (Trailer)

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It's time to get some wins.

Back when I was into competitive gaming, I accidentally stumbled onto a strategy to consistently get my teams into the top 25 of the worldwide gaming ladders. I call the approach "Chaining Wins", the approach held even when we started playing newer versions of…

A Day Without Business – Charlie Monroe

On Aug 4, 2020 I woke up to a slightly different world – I had lost my business as it seemed. Full inbox of reports of my apps not launching (crashing on launch) and after not too long I found out that when I sign into my Apple developer account I can no longe…

Negotiations

Everyone has a different style when negotiating – and all of these styles lend themselves to have better outcomes depending on the topic at hand and who you’re speaking to. Having exper…

Proof of X

I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.

Productivity porn

And the danger of hobbies that feel valuable but aren’t

Saving Your Initial Reaction

This is very simply idea that has helped me in a number of different ways in the recent past: recording my initial reaction to things. All this means is immediately saving my thoughts on a topic somewhere, as opposed to the usual ... "I'll write this down late…

What I learned from 35 Hackathons

What I learned from 35 hackathons, why you should participate at hackathons, how to gain experience without a full-time job.

A short case for unifying the iPad and the MacBook

In this post, I present my opinion on why unifying the iPad and MacBook lineups is a good idea, from the perspective of a regular user of both these devices and keeping in view Apple’s planned processor transition.

XXXI.

This is a photograph of Mt. Solitary, in the Blue Mountains of Australia, after which this website was named. In this strange and uncertain time in the histo...

acidanthera/OpenCorePkg

OpenCore bootloader. Contribute to acidanthera/OpenCorePkg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Toilet Trouble – Aaron Bockover

Friends, in these tough economic times, we’re all expected to go above and beyond the usual call of duty. My very dear friend Miguel regularly executes on this mantra and today was no exception.

YC Startup Library

YC's library of startup advice: essays, podcasts, and videos created over the past 15 years.

A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton

Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT rede…

AzureThursday @AzureThursday

Azure Thursday with Barbara Forbes, Jon Galloway and Koushik Aravalli

dotnet/Kerberos.NET

A Kerberos implementation built entirely in managed code. - dotnet/Kerberos.NET

hephaest0s/usbkill

« usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer. - hephaest0s/usbkill

Life Beyond Coding with Justin Chau

Being a developer is a lot more than just writing code. Justin and I discuss some of the hot topics for developers: marketing and building a brand, how to avoid burnout, creating content, how to learn, etc. Connect with Justin Chau Instagram - https://www.ins…

Life, part 30

Holy goodness, we are on part 30; I never expected this to go for so long and we have not even gotten to Gosper’s algorithm yet! We will finish up Hensel’s QuickLife algorithm soon I ho…

AutomaticKingdom

AutomaticKingdom

ADefWebserver/AutomaticKingdom

Blazor Server Side Application. Contribute to ADefWebserver/AutomaticKingdom development by creating an account on GitHub.

Build High-performance Microservices with gRPC and .NET

gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework designed for microservices. In this talk you will learn how to use gRPC in .NET and see how gRPC's support for deadlines and cancellation can be used to create fast, reliable microservice apps.

What is default(object) used for?

I was asked what the meaning of default(object) is in the following piece of code:The code is something that you’ll see a lot in RavenDB indexes, but I under...

nxrighthere/UnrealCLR

Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration. Contribute to nxrighthere/UnrealCLR development by creating an account on GitHub.

Web We Want - Web Apps

We'd love your feedback on our top requests for web apps features submitted to The Web We Want Initiative. The Web We Want is a cross browser and standards initiative to gather feedback from developers and designers around the pain points they encounter while …

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Remembering Frances E. Allen | IBM Research Blog

Frances Allen the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday.