Random: #160

Miscellaneous

• The Refragmentation – Paul Graham
• Death is not the end of everything
• Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy
  • “The answer may be that the what is 100 times more important than the how.“

• The LEGO Movie: Construction, Animation And Demolition

• MS Solitaire developed by summer intern named Wes Cherry – see 1st reddit comment
• Went disc golfing and lost a disc in a pond. 73 other people didn’t care as much as I did
• The Numerical Artists – by Anthony Salvi
• Purity – xkcd

Technical

• Automatic Colorization using Convolutional Neural Networks
• Ask HN: In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?
• Processing in a RESTful World

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment – Mike Hearn
  • NYT Article

• TrendMicro node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands!!!
• • Comments on Hackernews
  • Lesson is to never, ever, install TrendMicro Anti-Virus.
• Arrays of Wisdom of the Ancients
  • “…toArray(new T[0]) seems faster, safer, and contractually cleaner, and therefore should be the default choice now. Future VM optimizations may close this performance gap for toArray(new T[size])“