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Finally, Bradley received an e-mail from 10x, a talent company. 10x was started by two music and entertainment managers, Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, who for the past nineteen years have represented rock stars, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, in the wake of the digital revolution and the music industry’s implosion, Solomon and Blumberg have begun serving as agents for technologists. 10x claims to represent digital ”rock stars”; the company’s name comes from the idea, well established in the tech world, that the very best programmers are superstars, capable of achieving ten times the productivity of their merely competent colleagues. In HBO’s ”Silicon Valley,” a self-effacing character named Big Head compliments his friend’s coding skills by saying, ”Richard’s a 10xer. I’m, like, barely an xer.” ...

A lot of engineers looking to join ZenPayroll are interested in hearing more about our development workflow. Put more simply, how do ZenPayrollers write software? The answer to that is constantly changing, as we’re always refining our workflows to fit our ever changing needs, but I’ll cover in some detail the way we do things today. » Edward Kim | engineering.zenpayroll.com

Tetris was formally released in June 1984 by the Academy of Sciences, after initially spreading among academics and the computer literate by way of copied floppy disks. As a tile-fitting puzzler, Tetris captivated these members of intelligentsia. After all, here was a game constructed of pristine shapes taken straight from Platonic idealism. » Jagger Gravning | motherboard.vice.com

Ha pasado mucho tiempo luego de que apareciera por primera vez la historia de Dragon Ball. 30 años en que su creador, Akira Toriyama, publicara la historia de un pequeño niño que juntos a sus amigos buscaban unas esferas mágicas que al reunirlas podrían pedir un deseo. » Ivonne Lara | hipertextual.com

Han pasado 20 años desde el nacimiento de Daft Punk, y apenas llevan llevan cuatro álbumes de estudio (además de una banda sonora para película que, para algunos, cuenta como un quinto álbum), pero es tanto lo que han cambiado y es tanto lo que nos han sorprendido, que su meta fue cumplida, revolucionaron la música electrónica. » Eduardo Marin | hipertextual.com

Remember Heartbleed? If you believe the hype today, Shellshock is in that league and with an equally awesome name albeit bereft of a cool logo (someone in the marketing department of these vulns needs to get on that). But in all seriousness, it does have the potential to be a biggie and as I did with Heartbleed, I wanted to put together something definitive both for me to get to grips with the situation and for others to dissect the hype from the true underlying risk. ...

Every now and then in the world of security, something rather serious and broad-reaching happens and we all run around like headless chicken wondering what on earth it means. Did the NSA finally ”get us”? Is SSL dead? Is the sky falling? Well it’s bad, but not for everyone and quite possibly not as bad as many are saying it is. » Troy Hunt | troyhunt.com

My colleague, Bodo M¶ller, in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers), just posted details about a padding oracle attack against CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3. This attack, called POODLE, is similar to the BEAST attack and also allows a network attacker to extract the plaintext of targeted parts of an SSL connection, usually cookie data. Unlike the BEAST attack, it doesn’t require such extensive control of the format of the plaintext and thus is more practical. Fundamentally, the design flaw in SSL/TLS that allows this is the same as with Lucky13 and Vaudenay’s two attacks: SSL got encryption and authentication the wrong way around – it authenticates before encrypting. ...

La Máquina Analítica no tiene ninguna pretensión de producir nada. Puede hacer cualquier cosa que sepamos cómo ordenarle que haga. Puede seguir un análisis; pero no tiene la capacidad de anticipar ninguna relación o verdad analíticas. Su función es ayudarnos a hacer accesible aquello con lo que ya estamos familiarizados. Está diseñada para hacer esto principalmente, claro está, por medio de sus facultades ejecutivas; pero es probable que ejerza de otra manera una influencia indirecta y recíproca sobre la propia ciencia. Porque, al distribuir y combinar las verdades y las fórmulas del análisis, de manera que las combinaciones mecánicas de la máquina las puedan manejar con mayor rapidez y facilidad, las relaciones y la naturaleza de muchas cuestiones de la ciencia quedarán bañadas en otra luz y podrán investigarse en mayor profundidad. Sin duda, esto es una consecuencia indirecta y, en parte, especulativa, de tal invento. Sin embargo, es evidente que, en general, al concebir una nueva forma de registrar verdades matemáticas y arrojarlas para su uso, es probable que nos inspiren nuevas perspectivas que, de nuevo, deben reaccionar en la fase más teórica del asunto. Todas las ampliaciones del poder humano, o aumentos del conocimiento humano, conllevan siempre varias influencias colaterales, aparte de los objetivos principal y secundario obtenidos. ...

There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ’hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you’re a hacker. ...