August 2013 Archive
481.
Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000) (amazon.com)
482.
How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers (firstround.com)
483.
Confessions of a failed indie developer (altdevblogaday.com)
484.
Ruby hacking guide (ruby-hacking-guide.github.io)
485.
What makes Lua tick? (lua-users.org)
486.
For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual (ebay.com)
487.
An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About (nytimes.com)
488.
Introducing choir.io (corte.si)
489.
Mozilla Servo: the road to Acid2 (groups.google.com)
490.
Don't Plug Your Phone into a Charger You Don't Own (securitywatch.pcmag.com)
491.
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (foreignpolicy.com)
492.
NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ (theguardian.com)
493.
A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
494.
Obama administration vetos Apple iPhone 4, 3G iPad 2 product ban [pdf] (ustr.gov)
495.
CIA is largest US spy agency, according to black budget leaked by Edward Snowden (washingtonpost.com)
496.
Beware of geeks bearing gifts (aralbalkan.com)
497.
I Am Being Watched (amsiegel.com)
498.
Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me (sayafter.me)
499.
Mozilla CTO: "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..." (twitter.com)
500.
SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it (m.washingtonpost.com)
501.
The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (2011) (wired.com)
502.
Recycling memory buffers in Go (blog.cloudflare.com)
503.
Court Holds That Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization” (volokh.com)
504.
Create a font from your own handwriting (myscriptfont.com)
505.
Retraction from Tumblr (istumblrdown.com)
506.
Show HN: Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News (medium.com)
507.
Censorship Doesn’t Just Stifle Speech – It Can Spread Disease (wired.com)
508.
How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers (fastcolabs.com)
509.
FlowType: font-size and line-height based on element width (simplefocus.com)
510.
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) (catonmat.net)