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Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Trafficblog.cloudflare.com
It’s 9am and CloudFlare has already mitigated three billion malicious requests for our customers today. Six out of every one hundred requests we see are malicious, and increasingly, more of those bad requests are targeting DNS nameservers. DNS is... -
A Beginner's Guide to the Secret Language of Airport Runwaysgizmodo.com
For most of us, the sight of blue lights and yellow lines outside an airplane's window is the cue to turn our phones back on. For pilots, it's more like a secret language--a language that is vitally important to safety and, increasingly, embedded with ... - fluidtime.com
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The Art of Code Review: A Dropbox Story - iOS at Scale - objc.io issue #22objc.io
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YC-Backed BuildScience’s Platform Ties Hardware Systems Together In Big Office Buildingstechcrunch.com
Google's $3 billion acquisition of Nest made it clear that Internet-connected hardware in the home was a big opportunity. But what about the commercial.. -
Cell Phone Records Can Show Where You Sleep and Where You Prayaclu.org
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has become the latest federal appeals court to consider the question of whether law enforcement needs a warrant before it obtains cell phone location data. We have (with allies) filed an amicus brief in this case, as ... -
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luafun - A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT tracing just-in-time compiler -
How PlayFab migrated from EC2-Classic to VPC with zero downtime | PlayFabplayfab.com
At PlayFab, one of our core tenets is no downtime. This makes challenges like the recent overhaul of our AWS topology particularly interesting. When you’re a backend-as-a-service, you can’t just turn everything off for six hours. (Or six minutes.) This... -
Lessons from Launching a Data Productblog.socialrank.com
Over one month ago, we launched a product called the SocialRank Index. The Index tracks the Twitter activity of the world’s biggest brands, and our goal with it is to build a tool that monitors the... -
Wildbit Blog. » Wildbit HQ: Ending the open office epidemic - Thoughts on building web apps, business, and virtual teamswildbit.com
Wildbit create web products such as Beanstalk and Newsberry to help business collaborate and communicate more effectively. - iswhale.com
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What’s the Hardest Shot in Bowling? It’s Not the 7-10 Split.slate.com
At a crucial moment in the classic bowling comedy Kingpin, Woody Harrelson’s character, Roy Munson, stares down a 7-10 split. “The dreaded 7-10 split,” an announcer intones. “In bowling there are 1,022 spare leads. And this, the 7-10, is by far the mos... -
What a Handshake Smells Liketheatlantic.com
A new paper argues that the gesture may have evolved to allow people to judge one another's scent signals.