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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). Hacker News).

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50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

The Morning Paper

Before we dive in, I’d just like to note that the authors responsibly disclosed their findings to Google, who have announced that they will be fixing many of the identified issues in AndroidQ. Google, to their credit, have announced that they are addressing many of the issues that we reported to them. most apps).

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

Second, optimization efforts for JavaScript were the subject of probably millions of developer hours by a number of companies, notably Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, and built on decades of research in the PL community on how to optimize such languages (starting with the Self project , which started in the late 80s).

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I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget

Smashing Magazine

MB , that suggests I’ve got around 29 pages in my budget, although probably a few more than that if I’m able to stay on the same sites and leverage browser caching. Google Homepage — DOM. There’s a trade-off to be made here, as external stylesheets can be cached but inline ones cannot (unless you get clever with JavaScript ).

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. These tools fall into several categories. Large preview ).

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HTTP/3 From A To Z: Core Concepts (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

However, many other devices are sitting between the client and the server that also have their own TCP code on board (examples include firewalls, load balancers, routers, caching servers, proxies, etc.). For example, if the device is a firewall, it might be configured to block all traffic containing (unknown) extensions.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest. The Moto G4 , for example.