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If the device doesn't have a secure element, how can anyone take it seriously as a strong root of trust? The page lists several recent attacks on secure element, but that's not rea…

There’s a nice Stanford class I took called CS 140E that had students write an OS for the Raspeberry Pi in Rust. There are actually some benefits to using Rust at this level, thoug…

Another great startup/app development Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-02-12

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ CSS-Tricks has a pretty handy guide, too. If I need a quick reference when developing, that and MDN are my go to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd The Latin librae, solidi, and denarii became pounds, shillings and pence. There are 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound. So, …

A big thing Julia has going for it is that it plays nicely with Fortran. Lots of legacy numerical computing code has already been written in Fortran, so it's a big draw for some co…

If I write a computer program (say a Processing sketch) that generates an image, who owns the copyright to the image?

How many grandmas (or even casual Google users) knew that though? Do they read Google's blog? (Also, not to be picky, but I see no mention of Google+ Photos (let alone its status a…

Isn't it funny that we're even having this conversation? That Google can offer two products, differentiated by a single character (Google+ Photos and Google Photos), with few obvio…

> Stuff like prime numbers have eaten up millions of brain hours of highly intelligent people I think the idea that brilliant minds have been 'wasted' on prime numbers is nonsense.…

But sometimes the connection between "beautiful art project" and "practical tools" is totally unexpected. We often invest time in projects that seem simply like "beautiful art", an…

I was very interested, but pretty disappointed that Datomic is completely closed source. Maybe this is a little mean, but what could be more "simple" than being able to read, under…

Is he perhaps joking? Even a brief read of the Wikipedia article makes it clear that NP-hard isn't a mathematical expression in which 'N' stands for a number...

How is what the author described "one pronounced incident"? One email or IRC message could be a "pronounced incident". What she describes is clearly much worse, and points to a dee…