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6 days ago

Norm Hardy’s Place in History

by Mark S. Miller My speech at Norm Hardy’s memorial service, edited for clarity. I am glad this memorial service is at the Computer History Museum. Having known Norm for many years, I have many personal things to say. But today I want to make clear Norm’s place in history…

Eulogy

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Norm Hardy’s Place in History
Norm Hardy’s Place in History
Eulogy

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·Dec 5, 2019

SES: Securing JavaScript in the Real World

JavaScript applications use and rely on a lot of third-party code, including modules, packages, libraries, and in some cases even user-provided code for extensions and plug-ins. Too often, applications are fully vulnerable to these code dependencies, so not only do their current security vulnerabilities impact the applications, so do future…

JavaScript

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SES: Securing JavaScript in the Real World
SES: Securing JavaScript in the Real World
JavaScript

3 min read


Nov 6, 2019

A Pack of Watchdogs is Cheaper than Gas

An engineering shortcut for some blockchains — Blockchains that run general programs use gas to abort runaway computations, and to charge for costs of execution. When the only requirement is to abort runaways, the pack of watchdogs mechanism proposed here can serve that purpose with less effort. Background Blockchain computations consume “gas”, decrementing a remaining gas budget until…

Blockchain

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A Pack of Watchdogs is Cheaper than Gas
A Pack of Watchdogs is Cheaper than Gas
Blockchain

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May 27, 2019

The Tragedy of the Common Lisp:

Why Large Languages Explode — Adapted from a 2015 es-discuss thread. “Common Lisp” is not the topic. It serves only as one of many illustrative counter-examples. I have been on the JavaScript standards committee (TC39) since 2007. On TC39, we appreciate the value of language simplicity. But over time, we have lost our vigilance against…

JavaScript

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The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode
JavaScript

5 min read

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