knowledge accumulation and knowledge decay
http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php
http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php
opensource projects unite! aka interoperability is important
http://iguaz.io/2016/12/02/did-amazon-just-kill-open-source/
http://iguaz.io/2016/12/02/did-amazon-just-kill-open-source/
Mixing JWT with TCP handshake for zero-cost TCP authentication
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/from-network-policies-to-security-policies.html
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/12/from-network-policies-to-security-policies.html
blog.kubernetes.io
From Network Policies to Security Policies
Editor's note: Today’s post is by Bernard Van De Walle, Kubernetes Lead Engineer, at Aporeto, showing how they took a new approach to the Ku...
Applied Prisoner Dilemma: Ransomware meets MLM
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/ransomware_meet.html
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/ransomware_meet.html
internal combustion strikes back!
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/12/darpa-funds-30-kw-x4-liquid-piston.html
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/12/darpa-funds-30-kw-x4-liquid-piston.html
NextBigFuture.com
DARPA funds 30 KW X4 liquid piston engine that is 90 times lighter than a conventional 2700 lb military 30 KW diesel generator…
DARPA has awarded LiquidPiston Inc. $2.5 million to continue development of a new, patented, high-efficiency, lighter-weight rotary engine. LiquidPiston, a
Longread on company culture. Sections can be read independently.
https://zachholman.com/talk/move-fast-break-nothing/
https://zachholman.com/talk/move-fast-break-nothing/
Zachholman
Move Fast and Break Nothing
Things Zach Holman said.
Abstracting Abstract Machines (CEK/Krivine Nets/CESK/...)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/pubs/vanhorn-might-icfp10.pdf
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/pubs/vanhorn-might-icfp10.pdf
on the false dichotomy of feature branching vs CI
http://web.archive.org/web/20110721063430/http://jamesmckay.net/2011/07/why-does-martin-fowler-not-understand-feature-branches/
http://web.archive.org/web/20110721063430/http://jamesmckay.net/2011/07/why-does-martin-fowler-not-understand-feature-branches/
web.archive.org
james mckay dot net » Why does Martin Fowler not understand feature branches?
The online diary of James McKay
oh, turns out Oracle JVM costs some hefty $$$ AND Oracle has started to enforce this. What a day.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/
www.theregister.co.uk
Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun
Thought Java was 'free'? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017)
don't like jenkins, but the UX is definitely going in the right direction
https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/
https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/
Linux Kernel 2.6-4.5.1 Remote Code Execution
Why do we still write OS kernels in C?
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-7117
Why do we still write OS kernels in C?
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-7117
Vulners
CVE-2016-7117
Use-after-free vulnerability in the __sys_recvmmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a recvmmsg system call that is mishandled during error processing.