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A landmark Supreme Court ruling against software patents just turned 40(arstechnica.com)
1 points by adumbledore 8y ago|0 comments
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by adumbledore 8y ago
How political was this decision? Seems like they wanted to get rid of him and citet some minor misdemeanor some time back.
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by adumbledore 8y ago
It even says so on the official website ( https://oauth.net/2/grant-types/implicit/ ) - astonishing that they can't get this right. Maybe says something about the product?
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Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer with Immune Therapy(nytimes.com)
111 points by adumbledore 8y ago|77 comments
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by adumbledore 9y ago
Scammy site - see previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576516
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Google’s Security Sweep for Apps(nytimes.com)
3 points by adumbledore 9y ago|0 comments
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by adumbledore 9y ago
I am not sure about you, but as my career as a developer progressed I rely less on Stack Overflow today as I did in the past. To me it seems that this survey may have a strong bias.
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by adumbledore 9y ago
Oops, not sure what went on in my head there. Corrected!
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by adumbledore 9y ago
Not entirely sure, but is the idea to implement something like https://github.com/emirotin/mongodb-migrations in python? If so, what's the difference to other tools like: - https://github.com/Clear
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by adumbledore 9y ago
The article doesn't actually talk about preventing injection attacks, but rather identifying potential attack surfaces by doing an AST search for eval/exec in combination with mutable variables. The article does not explain what l
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by adumbledore 9y ago
Something being apparent (in a certain demographic) does not in any sense reduce the validity of scientific research in this area. There have been great papers on topics like these in the past, some of them even award-winning and read-worth
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by adumbledore 9y ago
Were are you reading that? It's a long report but I wasn't able to find what you're referring to. Would be awesome if you could clarify!