Stories by shawndumas

Yahoo: Sharing Our First Transparency Report (NSA requests)

Yahoo: US wanted data on 40,000 accounts in first half of 2013

If my team has low skill, should I reduce the difficulty-level of my code?

Spooks break most Internet crypto, but how?

Police admit they’re 'stumped' by mystery car thefts -- can you help?

Allong.es Practical function combinator and decorator recipes

LINQ in JavaScript, ES6 style

How the NSA snoop-proofs its Macs

One-true-awk: Awk source as developed by the original Awk authors

How can I stop Paypal from freezing my crowdfunding campaign?

Let us count the ways: How the feds (legally, technically) get our data

“World’s most secure smartphone” looks like snake oil

LeapTrainer: A JS gesture learning and recognition framework for the Leap Motion

Windows 8 more widely used than OS X, IE still on the rise

Kit Kat mocks Apple with Android 4.4 parody video

NPM tricks

Hands-on with the Nintendo 2DS: Surprisingly small and comfortable

Mega Man designer crowdfunding a new, PC-based side-scrolling shooter

Gates did a compiler in 4k; Thompson wrote an OS in the same amount of memory

My boss just gave me a warning. Is there a way to get faster at solving bugs?