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by dkopi 11y ago
I'm fascinated by the use of random word combinations instead of a random alphanumeric sequence for passing a unique URL. What was the reasoning behind this decision? On one hand, it sort of acts like a phonetic alphabet if you want to
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by dkopi 11y ago
I sometimes think the best way for people to learn about loops is not to tell them they exist at first. Give them lots of repetitive assignments, (print the numbers 1 through 50, or all the powers of 2 until 65536) until they're so fru
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by dkopi 11y ago
Started programming when I was 8 using basic. Things have changed a lot since then, but one thing probably hasn't: The best incentive I got to continue learning how to program was my ability to impress others. I would develop screen sa
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Sometimes. And sometimes the product is simply free because First time entrepreneurs feel insecure and are afraid to ask users for money. Business models are difficult. Getting free users to become paid users is a science in its own. You mi
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"ZKCP is a transaction protocol that allows a buyer to purchase information from a seller using Bitcoin in a manner which is private, scalable, secure, and which doesn’t require trusting anyone: the expected information is transferred
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I love the idea of enforcing coding guidelines as lint rules. It isn't always possible, but it does make you think very carefully about the rules you're adding.
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"Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundr
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by dkopi 11y ago
This is actually a story about the triumph of continuous integration and staged rollout. By shipping code constantly, but slowly rolling it out to users - bugs can be detected very quickly by the users themselves, instead of employing large
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by dkopi 11y ago
Disappointed? Sure. Annoyed? Perhaps. Outraged? Over twitter canceling a free feature I never paid them to provide? Meh.
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20 hours is quite a lot of time to devout. An escape room provides a 1 hour intensive experience. It's not only about solving puzzles, it's also about the adrenaline (Time limits do that), team building and cooperation, and functi
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by dkopi 11y ago
Few things to keep in mind when reviewing this type of information. 1. Most "Gun related deaths" are suicides. According to the CDC, 65% of gun related deaths in 2013 were suicides. 2. Only 1.3% of all deaths in the country were r
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by dkopi 11y ago
Do the ends justify the means? If you're okay with the FBI running a child porn server, are you okay with the FBI creating a child porn server? How about the FBI creating its own child porn, just to catch pedophiles? How about the FBI
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"The setup was seized in February 2015, but law enforcement allowed it to run for two additional weeks as a way to monitor its nearly 215,000 users." So the FBI was serving child porn for over 2 weeks to hundreds of thousands of u
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by dkopi 11y ago
The whole "porn = loneliness" equation is really getting old. People with sex lives watch porn. People in relationships watch porn. Females watch porn. Couples watch porn together. Couples make porn together. Masturbation is natur
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by dkopi 11y ago
Inflating away debt is another form of increasing tax revenues. Also known as Seigniorage. It's just a more sophisticated way of collecting taxes, and it will harm the poorest greeks and middle class first.
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One thing's for sure, without countries to bail them out, without banks to lend them more money - the greeks will have no other choice but to increase their tax income and decrease their spending. Austerity as some might call it.
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This might be less of a popular opinion, but I believe this is exactly when NSA surveillance is rightly placed. In a world where hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world - collect
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Such as bypassing copyrights and video protections?
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Wanted - Fullstack VBScript developers You have: Delivered a fully functioning single page application Using Vanilla VBS. Delivered high performance backends with ASP(using VBScript) Advantage - you've used Angular.vbs and Backbone.vbs
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by dkopi 12y ago
If you were a USB drive manufacturer, which support requests would you rather deal with? "Why can't I copy a 5gb file to my usb drive?" or "Why isn't my USB drive recognized on my computer running an old OS?" E
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by dkopi 12y ago
Many successful open source projects have a corporate backing to them, driving resources and energy into them. Open source isn't anti capitalist. It's capitalism at it's best form. People join at their own free will, the rule
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That's not how Human nature works. The world is filled with failed experiments of "Just do good without expecting anything in return". "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" has failed u
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I think that something inherent but generally unacknowledged is how Socialism and Anti capitalist ideologies rob creativity of any and all usefulness. Exploring ideas for the sake of solving real world problems, making people's lives b
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by dkopi 12y ago
I had no intention of accusing this specific website or code for storing your password or sending it back to a server. But using a random "how secure is your password" website is one of the least secure things you can do.
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by dkopi 12y ago
How secure is my password? Very weak, if you've ever entered it into a "how secure is my password" website.
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Also - try viewing this page from a mobile browser.
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It never arrived because touch screens will never out perform a mouse and keyboard. Perhaps in the future when tablets/phones/rifts have a better man machine input interface
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"The difference in sizes between Apple and Google’s stores has a lot to do with the ways the two companies choose to manage their mobile app marketplaces. Apple puts developers’ apps through a more extensive review process, while Googl
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by dkopi 12y ago
ASN.1 is an awesome way of encoding information, but having variable lengths all over - implementations are very prone to bugs and buffer overflows. It sure was fun implementing back then.
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by dkopi 12y ago
Pretty disappointed not to find Tel Aviv or Jerusalem on this list

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