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This is what I recommend to non-technical users: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silvine-Executive-Pocket-Notebook-14... I use a hand-rolled gpg + git + owncloud for myself, but that's not…

From the comments on the debian bug, this appears to have been fixed in Chromium. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435

2002 explanation by Dan Bernstein of why IPv6 will never happen. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html

If you don't have enough control over your applications to have them connect over trusted networks and not untrusted ones, you probably don't have enough control to stop them leaki…

It's actually interesting why this idea is so totally wrong. So Telecom Malaysia messed up a config, and Global Crossing accepted their updates automatically. Global Crossing didn'…

The regulations protecting investors are far stronger than those protecting consumers. Crowdfunding could not exist if the customers were legally considered investors.

Ah, that's really significant, thanks

the goal should be to be able to process the vast majority of transactions That implies the social value of the transactions outweighs the cost of carrying them on the blockchain. …

Does the author have any evidence for his claim "The limit was temporary"? It was certainly commonly claimed even a couple of years ago that the coming scarcity of blockchain space…

I would assume the author is talking about in-house software development. If you are delivering software to a client, you don't want them to have to recompile sources to make chang…

Beyond Wolfram's example, prime numbers have been generated by Conway's Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nEX5CEmZE

I agree with this too. Pulling constants out to the top a source file is often a mistake. It's useful if someone is looking at the source file to find the constant, but usually it'…

YES! No system is harder to maintain than one that consists of a huge mesh of configuration files. No kidding, I have worked on a large company-wide reporting system where the easi…

LOL at "GPG is famously easy to use"