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by mef 14y ago
I really don't understand the advocacy of git bisect. Using git bisect boils down to figuring out at which point in the history a change happened that broke a test or introduced a bug. Having tried git-bisect five or six times, I've found i
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by mef 14y ago
Non paywall link https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...
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Paypal System Outage(x.com)
2 points by mef 14y ago|1 comments
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What's the relative speed of floating point add vs. floating point multiply?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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How Some Men Harass Women Online and What Other Men Can Do to Stop It(msmagazine.com)
12 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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The Apple Paradox(ben-evans.com)
3 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
This bug is pretty edge, but if there was an easy way for a user to put a symbol in the params hash the bug would be a pretty gnarly universal SQL injection vulnerability for all versions of Rails. Though if that was easy it would most like
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by mef 14y ago
"The list is based on exits, valuations by A+++ investors and rapid growth." So, yes, it appears their definition of "Tech Companies" is skewed towards web startups.
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by mef 14y ago
Sidebar, why didn't the reporters ask Statscan to respond to the allegations in this story? Seems a bit one-sided.
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by mef 14y ago
For those curious about the role the NSA played in this framework: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&#... ;
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by mef 14y ago
Without knowing my way around perl, how would I use this to generate a name from one of those categories?
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Why 256 bit keys are large enough(security.stackexchange.com)
281 points by mef 14y ago|133 comments
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by mef 14y ago
Why would you ever want to make a web app without constantly testing it in a browser?
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by mef 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why that is?
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by mef 14y ago
I've found this sub-page super useful over the years for testing http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt
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Bionic hand gives man use of his arm back [video](prochan.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
This is really awesome. They cut the entire song into one-beat segments of sound and video, and then categorized each beat by similarity to other beats in the song, and then after each beat there's a random chance that, instead of playing t
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by mef 14y ago
While this role is most definitely necessary, I've found it's no fun to be that person, even when others value the dissent. I've voluntarily taken on this role in the past when I've joined a company or project where nobody else was shooting
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by mef 14y ago
The heading showing up dynamically in the margin as I scroll I found to be quite distracting while reading. Text fading in and out while you scroll and read only serves to compete for your attention.
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by mef 14y ago
Linus Torvalds ripping into the patch committer http://lwn.net/Articles/518351/
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by mef 14y ago
Interesting product. What's the incentive for someone to do the research to figure out what's in an image?
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by mef 14y ago
What am I missing? I looked over the API and tried to skim through the video (10 minutes in and still no demonstration of anything in the API), but I couldn't figure out why any of the Letters functions would be preferable to just jumping i
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The Right Way to Reponsd to a PR Nightmare(nativeappropriations.blogspot.ca)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
Not sure if you were referring to the article author, but Jay Goldberg is a financial analyst with an investment bank.
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Square closes $200M round at $3.25B valuation(allthingsd.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
The WP article specifies that there must be threat of legal sanction. There was no threat in this case, only a request.
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Why You Can't Photograph a Spinning Propellor With An iPhone(scripts.mit.edu)
2 points by mef 14y ago|1 comments
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by mef 14y ago
It's assumptions like these that drive the need for rigorous nutritional science initiatives.
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Foxconn Using Forced Student Labour to make iPhones(nytimes.com)
9 points by mef 14y ago|4 comments
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Frequency of Words Being Used at the Democratic National Convention(nytimes.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments

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