21 August 2020

42 links · Friday

Leaked Palantir S-1 shows $579M loss in 2019 – TechCrunch

Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final document to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur. Now, thanks to some leaked screenshots to TechCrunch from a Palantir shareholder, we might h…

This is your one shot

I've worked in IT consulting for over 10 years in various roles. My current job includes meeting with prospects and discussing our IT services and how they fit into their business. This has been the first position I've held where I deal with a lot mo...

Tom Spark Talks with Troy Hunt - Owner of HaveIBeenPwned!

I talked with Troy Hunt about his website and about general privacy online. ►Privacy Review/tier list website with all ratings: https://vpntierlist.com/ Favorite VPN provider : TorGuard VPN http://bit.ly/tomsparkTorGuard Favorite browser: http://brave.com/…

Toward a Zoom agreement

If you promise not to check your email while we’re talking, we promise to not waste your time. If you agree to look me in the eye and try to absorb the gist of what I’m saying, I agree …

Hand washing stations

If you are out, about, and going to the mercados in Oaxaca in the last couple of months, you may have seen a clever contraption like the one below set up outside the Independencia entrance to Merca…

Developer Advocate, Careers At EDB

Developer Advocate Remote preferred The world loves Postgres If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data youll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop EDB has a lot to …

Inside the Microsoft STL: The std::exception_ptr | The Old New Thing

When debugging, you may find yourself staring at a std::exception_ptr and want to know what exception is inside it. What you see in the MSVC header file is that a std::exception_ptr is a class that consists of two pointers enigmatically named _Data1 and _Data2…

My Stream Timer

A cool app to count up or down that writes text to file for streamers

.NET Productivity Tips and Tricks

The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. Roslyn PM Mika Dumont shows a number of the latest features that make your coding life better, including her favorite (IntelliSense completio…

How NAT traversal works

In this post, we'll talk about how to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two machines, in spite of all the obstacles in the way.

Productivity Tips and Tricks

The .NET Productivity team (a.k.a. Roslyn) is constantly thinking of new ways to make .NET developers more productive. Roslyn PM Mika Dumont shows a number of the latest features that make your coding

GUIDs are globally unique, but substrings of GUIDs aren't | The Old New Thing

A customer needed to generate an 8-byte unique value, and their initial idea was to generate a GUID and throw away the second half, keeping the first eight bytes. They wanted to know if this was a good idea. No, it’s not a good idea.

Introducing the new Azure SDKs

Azure SDK Website: https://aka.ms/azsdk Azure SDK Twitter: https://twitter.com/@AzureSDK Azure SDK Blog: https://aka.ms/azsdk/blog Azure SDK Releases: https://aka.ms/azsdk/releases Azure SDK Guidelines: https://aka.ms/azsdk/guide Azure SDK Code: https://aka.ms…

Approximate results may vary

Part 33 of my ongoing series is coming but I did not get all the code written that I wanted to this week, so it will be delayed. In the meanwhile: Living in Canada as a child, of course I grew up l…

reMarkable microSD

This page discusses how I added a microSD card to my reMarkable tablet. I did this because I want to develop software for my rM without wearing out the internal eMMC. I chose an external card because I want to be able to swap them easily; it also makes backups…

The Brussels Choice - Numberphile

Neil Sloane from the OEIS discusses the Choix de Bruxelles. Check out Brilliant (get 20% off their premium service): https://brilliant.org/numberphile (sponsor) More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Neil Sloane founded the runs the OEIS: https://…

First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml

I'm about two weeks into Rust now, so this feels like a good time to write a critique, before I get Stockholm Syndrome'd. My main motivation in learning Rust is that I have to maintain some of Dark's Rust code. There was a recent outage related to that code, a…

Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-ons?

During the past few days, I’ve been chatting with Firefox users, trying to separate fact from rumor regarding the consequences of the August 2020 Mozilla layoffs. One of the topics that came back a few times was the removal of XUL-based add-ons during th…

Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

Maggie Appleton is an art director, anthropologist, and metaphor-making illustrator. This is her digital garden for growing visual explanations about technology, culture, and programming

Building a Second Brain

An online bootcamp on leveraging digital tools to enhance your creativity, productivity, and learning, by Tiago Forte

Development quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Posted Aug 19, 2020 22:57 UTC (Wed) by flussence (subscriber, #85566) In reply to: Development quotes of the week by mathstuf Parent article: Development quotes of the week

How Shopify Reduced Storefront Response Times with a Rewrite

In January 2019, we set out to rewrite the critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify’s platform to offer the fastest online shopping experience possible, entirely from scratch and without downtime. The Storefront Renderer is a server-side…

Guess a GUID

Guess A Guid. The fun guid guessing game.