Stories by alecco

The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy

Facebook underwriters holding the price with green shoe

Use Main Memory for OLTP (Mike Stonebraker)

Feeling peaky: The economic impact of high oil prices

Mike Monteiro: FU Pay me (Frelancers) (video)

Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL (2009)

GitHub's "responsible disclosure" stance is irresponsible

Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries

OTR in Go

Google's Address-sanitizer: a fast memory error detector (10x valgrind)

The Sins of the Flash

The Secret of a Wealthy, Healthy Lifestyle (on self-control)

Assembly Evolution P1: Accessing Memory and the strange case of the Intel 4004

Human Evolution: No Easy Fix

How to protect passwords with Python and Scrypt

Leaked BEAST paper and Proof of Concept (attack on SSL)

Dear Linux devs, let's review using GPU/EC2 to brute-force SHA-1

It’s the Economy, Dummkopf (Michael Lewis on Germany)

Open Financial Data - World Bank

Well, you can’t very well call that “design fiction.”

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