12 August 2020

35 links · Wednesday

Squares and Tilings - Numberphile

With 2006 Fields Medallist Andrei Okounkov More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Professor Okounkov website: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~okounkov/ Numberphile Field Medallist Playlist: https://bit.ly/Fields_Playlist Roger Penrose on the Numberp…

Risks of Clicking Links - ahmsec

We’re often advised not to click untrusted links, but less often told why. This post will outline a few things that can go wrong when you …

Ready to move to the Open Web? | Joshua Austin

Despite the desire for connection, misinformation and human nature have combined to produce some of the most frustrating online experiences for people.

Search is too good - A Walk Within Boredom

I remember being eight or nine years old and wandering around the young adult section, trying to find a good book. I would basically just tilt my head and wander the shelves, reading titles. If som…

The Social Media Problem · Jacques Mattheij

After seeing some of the weirdest stuff ever show up in my Twitter timeline I decided to dig in and see for myself what is going on in the underbelly of the beast. Someone I follow had just re-tweeted a bit of information that at face value seemed too outrageo…

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microsoft/msquic

Cross-platform implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol. - microsoft/msquic

Internet connection needed at home

We asked 950 currently employed Americans whether or not their jobs required a home internet connection. Here's what we found: Quick Facts Most currently employed Americans (over 71.5%) say they could not perform their jobs without a home internet connection. …

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series): Cwalina, Krzysztof, Barton, Jeremy, Abrams, Brad: 9780135896464: Amazon.com: Books

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) [Cwalina, Krzysztof, Barton, Jeremy, Abrams, Brad] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Framew…

Announcing TypeScript 3.1 | TypeScript

Today we’re announcing the release of TypeScript 3.1!If you haven’t heard of TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of modern JavaScript and adds static type-checking. When you write TypeScript code, you can use a tool like the TypeScript compiler to r…

FarazzShaikh/Terrain-Builder

🏔 Procedural terrain using Three.js and perlin noise, Now Accelerated by your GPU! - FarazzShaikh/Terrain-Builder

The Year In Science 2018

A roundup of all the biggest stories in science in 2018. Check out this video's sponsor https://brilliant.org/dos Loads of amazing progress was made in all areas of science in 2018 which is encouraging when the news makes us think that everything is falling a…

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dadhi/LempTest

Proof-of-concept compile-time Dependency Injection container using LeMP code-generation from the ECSharp - dadhi/LempTest

Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google – TechCrunch

A state court has dismissed a high-profile case showing unsportsmanlike conduct by Google, which was caught red-handed using lyrics obviously scraped from Genius. Unfortunately for the latter, the complaints amount to a copyright violation — which wasn’t what …

Creating background .NET Core services on Linux

There are a variety of ways to publish .NET Core applications. In the episode, Todd Gardner returns to share this experience with publishing self contained .NET applications to Linux. [02:10] - What d

Quorum

Avoid two groups of servers making independent decisions, by requiring majority for taking every decision.

Tip 274 - Set Your AzContext Interactively

If you are working with Azure, the probability of you having multiple accounts and subscriptions to work with are very high. If I look at myself, I have a personal account, a business account and my workaccount that I often use everyday. Deploying scripts thro…

The CompSci Pub

Don't have a CS degree and feel like you should? Hey I don't have one either! CS concepts are fun and interesting. Come see!

dotnet/aspnetcore

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux. - dotnet/aspnetcore