Articles by downbad_
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Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020) (iter.ca)

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"What happened after 2010?" (2021) (gist.github.com)

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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) (sive.rs)

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Python built-in functions to know (2019) (pythonmorsels.com)

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The Long Trip to Java (1996) (blinkenlights.com)

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Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) (ourworldindata.org)

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Using AI to bring children's drawings to life (2021) (meta.com)

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Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News (2016) (raptitude.com)

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You can't capture the nuance of my form fields (2021) (drewdevault.com)

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Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit (2020) (karl-voit.at)

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A Baby Saved 'Toy Story 2' from Near Complete Deletion (2021) (insidethemagic.net)

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Plausibly Deniable Encryption (2020) (spacetime.dev)

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Phenethylamines I have feared and loathed (2020) (nikobidin.com)

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Smedley Butler on Interventionism (1933) (fas.org)

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The Control Group Is Out of Control (2014) (slatestarcodex.com)

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I'm losing sleep over Java (1996) (twitter.com/techemails)

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The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (2019) (chemistryworld.com)

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Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020) (darknedgy.net)

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How to Start a Successful Freelance Business as a Software Developer (2017) (nickjanetakis.com)

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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) (science.org)

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Old CSS, new CSS (2020) (eev.ee)

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Why Not Rust? (2020) (matklad.github.io)

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Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019) (localghost.dev)

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Chopped: Amputated Fingertips Sometimes Grow Back (2013) (npr.org)

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A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web (2019) (jeffhuang.com)

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"Autism Is a Spectrum" Doesn't Mean What You Think (2019) (neuroclastic.com)

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Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (2016) (eev.ee)

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Can You Drill into a Supervolcano to Relieve Pressure? (2016) (askageologist.blogspot.com)

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Clean Up Kernel (2020) (lkml.org)

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Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014 (zachholman.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020) (wirfs-brock.com)

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Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015) (hintjens.com)

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The case of the 500-mile email (2002) (ibiblio.org)

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Shooting an Elephant (1936) (orwellfoundation.com)

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How to Build a Low-tech Website? (2018) (lowtechmagazine.com)

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Fuck.com (1997) (links.net)

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What is Property Based Testing? (2016) (hypothesis.works)

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Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020) (staysaasy.com)

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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)

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Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) (oism.org)

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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010) (twitter.com/techemails)

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Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring YouTube (2005) (twitter.com/techemails)

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The Descent to C (2013) (greenend.org.uk)

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When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition (2019) (gkogan.co)

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One local man's immunity to ticks could save us all (2015) (caryinstitute.org)

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How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations (2019) (productivityhub.org)

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Event Sourcing (2005) (martinfowler.com)

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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020) (abandonedspaces.com)

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You don't need to work on hard problems (2020) (benkuhn.net)

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SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020) (zachocean.com)

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The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean (2020) (dantheclamman.blog)

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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) (reuters.com)

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The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones (2020) (mattruby.substack.com)

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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012) (righto.com)

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I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) (dewitters.com)

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Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (KS Lesson #204) (2016) (stonemaiergames.com)

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Building a Vision of Life Without Work (2015) (livingafi.com)

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Evil tip: avoid "easy" things (2016) (yosefk.com)

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Low-level is easy (2008) (yosefk.com)

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In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (2015) (pbs.org)

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Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019) (figma.com)

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How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014) (gizmodo.com)

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What is the Fourth Dimension? (1884) (wikisource.org)

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Wikipedia Is Up (2001) (archive.org)

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A few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019) (cargocultcode.com)

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Why I Love Coding (2012) (henrikwarne.com)

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The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) (humbletoolsmith.com)

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Modern JavaScript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020) (turriate.com)

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Black Pepper Won Europe from a Tastier Pepper (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

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The Origin of Tweet (2013) (furbo.org)

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How Spotify Is Killing the Open Podcast Ecosystem (2020) (singhkays.com)

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mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018) (nature.com)

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Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018) (frankchimero.com)

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The Shape of Rome (2013) (exurbe.com)

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Vincent Chan: Inside PayPal (2010) (paulgraham.com)

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Steve Jobs Interview – 2/18/1981 (youtube.com)

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Joe Is Wrong (2009) (krampe.se)

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I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021) (nee.lv)

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How to Destroy the Earth (2003) (qntm.org)

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How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) (thorstenball.com)

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What happens when Bitcoin miners take over your town (2018) (politico.eu)

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Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020) (tanelpoder.com)

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The Stranger Who Changed My Life: A Short Love Story (2017) (rd.com)

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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat(2016) (npr.org)

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The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts Across the Globe (2014) (realclearscience.com)

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Employee #1: Reddit (2016) (ycombinator.com)

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What data on myself I collect and why? (2020) (beepb00p.xyz)

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When Historical Fiction Is a Crime (2020) (newrepublic.com)

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Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms (2018) (bbc.com)

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Most of What You Read on the Internet Is Written by Insane People (2018) (reddit.com)

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Will the US Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020? (2012) (livescience.com)

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I assume I'm below average (2010) (sive.rs)

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Tribes of Programming (2017) (josephg.com)

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Controversial Programming Opinions (2012) (blogoverflow.com)

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Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016) (chris-said.io)

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The Expressive Power of Programming Languages (2019) (pwlconf.org)

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Objective reasons to prefer Linux to Windows (2014) (github.com/nbeaver)

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Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013) (randomwire.com)

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How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (2016) (robertelder.org)