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No. Most NATs handle UDP sessions trivially as long as one end of the connection is not behind a NAT itself. Tricks like UDP hole punching are necessary only between two endpoints …

One of the authors is known for heavily cherry-picking his facts, making some pretty extreme and outrageous assumptions, and suing fellow academic critics who point this out. Cavea…

People are excited for RISC-V instead of Raspberry Pi's ARM.

It is explicitly advertised on Adafruit as a level shifter https://www.adafruit.com/product/1787

There is Blu-ray compatible archival disk format that the manufacturers claim will last 1000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC I don't know how this claim could be verifi…

Here's one theory: https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bd... and here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647571 Facebook uses Blu-ray disc…

parboiled2 [ https://github.com/sirthias/parboiled2 ] offers pretty much everything the built-in parser combinators do, but with fewer bugs and vastly improved performance. Since b…

It's pretty simple to wire up a 24VAC thermostat to control 120V power. Purchase a transformer [ http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-AT140A1000-40Va-120V-Transfo... ] and a 24VAC relay…

By comparison, Apple just posted $8.22 billion of net income. [ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/technology/apple-profits-r... ]. Approximately $5.1B of Samsung's profits came fro…

If you're curious how this handles memory management--the largest impedance mismatch between Java and Objective-C--see http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/wiki/MemoryManagement . The p…

This is probably meaningless for most developers: it is only going to be made available "for use in development, qualification, and testing". Further, there's no information on wha…

http://nixos.org/nix/ summarizes some of the advantages of this approach. To summarize, it promises to be fundamentally safer and more flexible than traditional package managers. P…

I'm surprised he didn't mention typeclasses as a solution to this general problem. In many cases it's an unambiguously better solution than inheritance. A particular strength is th…

This will vary between 32-bit and 64-bit environments. My understanding is that the vastly larger address in 64-bit environments greatly mitigates the chance that data will be mist…

This is the largest practical issue I've had with developing a Scala project. One major cause of the problem seems to be that Scala is stuck with the "precompiled bytecode in JARs"…

Finagle is a great library. We were able to pretty quickly write a HTTP load-testing tool; features like failover and retries give the impression that it's a battle-tested library.…