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by brs 10y ago
Well, another five years until it shows up on http://olduse.net/ (which is worth a nostalgic browse if you haven't tried it)
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Nestor Inc. soars 1900% as confused investors try to play the Nest acquisition(blogs.marketwatch.com)
1 points by brs 13y ago|1 comments
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by brs 13y ago
More details on the main site: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/#np-855 Self-taught computer scientists should also note: Formal admission into the OMS CS program will require a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science fr
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Say Goodbye to Free Google Apps(wired.com)
4 points by brs 14y ago|0 comments
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by brs 15y ago
There's a long extract from the book here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/19/genius-downstair...
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by brs 15y ago
This reminds me of hacking ANSI.SYS escape sequences back in the day. You could create a text file which would be "executed" when someone entered "type readme.txt" at the DOS prompt, by using keyboard remappings and so on. I remember creati
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by brs 15y ago
Perhaps everyone is trying out siege.
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by brs 15y ago
Looks interesting. I imagine a common use case would be for all exceptions to trigger an AJAX post back to your server, so they can be logged alongside normal server-side errors.
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by brs 15y ago
Actually the award Go won was "the highest rise in ratings in a year". That said, I do agree their methodology is pretty suspect. The thing is, a lot of developers look to Tiobe to decide what language to learn next, so it's interesting to
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by brs 15y ago
The full article is at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... I couldn't put it in the submission because of HN's dupe detection.
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F# enters Tiobe top 20 index for the first time(tiobe.com)
36 points by brs 15y ago|27 comments
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by brs 15y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience of the Software Engineering course mentioned at the end of the linked page? The functional/concurrent programming courses look quite interesting, speaking as someone who hasn't studied CS
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by brs 15y ago
For what it's worth, my password was 8 random alphanumerics, and it's not in the list, while /.,mnbvcxz (12 alphanumerics with symbols) is there. The cracker must have some sort of algorithm that looks for consecutive patterns on the keyboa
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by brs 15y ago
In fact, all the passwords included seem pretty weak. As the group tweeted a few days ago, "I argue that the simplest hack embarrasses the target more and thus wins"
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by brs 15y ago
For those of us who grew up with QBasic: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92
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TweetDeck acquisition puts Britain's web entrepreneurs on map(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by brs 15y ago|0 comments
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by brs 15y ago
I read a similar article which was written five days earlier: http://www.richardrodger.com/2011/04/05/the-javascript-disru... The author points out that Douglas Crockford's writings have played a big part in the language's resurgence - hi