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by 256_ 2y ago
Well if you're interested, the Elements of Programming Style, to me, was interesting for two reasons. It presents plenty of timeless insights about programming, but it's also very interesting as a historical document; it argues ag
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by 256_ 2y ago
I read the Elements of Programming Style and the Practice of Programming around the same time and they became completely mixed up in my mind. I'll often remember something from one of those books but be completely unable to remember wh
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by 256_ 2y ago
It's called the Baader-Meinhof effect.
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by 256_ 2y ago
If you look up "hacker news", it at least shows you an insert from the Wikipedia article, even if there are no normal results: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker+news
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by 256_ 2y ago
/SMTP/SMLP/ SMLP = Sporadically Missing Leading Period (-;
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by 256_ 2y ago
It can get tedious and annoying, but I don't think it actually affects the likelihood that you'll implement something wrong. The RFCs link to each other when needed. Also groups of RFCs often get combined and edited into a single
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by 256_ 2y ago
Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time by obsessively reading RFCs and specifications for the things I use. This made me feel better about that. And also much more smug. Other than the obvious moral that protocols should be implemen
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by 256_ 2y ago
DKIM headers can have an optional length parameter which says "the first n bytes of the message body is cryptographically signed", whilst allowing the rest of the message to be modified. I don't know if anyone actually uses i
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by 256_ 2y ago
CAs tend to revoke a domain's certificates if it's used for crime. Maybe they should do the same for SEO spam.
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Sometimes I think about whether a nation-state may have an incentive to solve this problem. They could adopt a strict anti-SEO spam policy for their ccTLD and run a publicity campaign telling people about it, so they'd filter search re