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The sad thing about this is that tablets and phones aren't nearly as good at content creation. A physical keyboard is still the fastest brain --> computer interface in town. Also, …

I was part of the Bloglines team from 2007 to 2009. The current Bloglines is nothing like the original. It looks like MerchantCircle kept only the name after acquiring it from Ask.…

Although Intel's Westermere-EX was last updated in late 2011, the specs are still pretty good. Those CPUs have up to 10 physical cores (20 virtual thanks to hyperthreading) and 30M…

I opt-out of backscatter and millimeter-wave screening every time. I think the TSA is a waste of money and I'd love to see the government take a more calculated approach to securit…

Anecdotes aren't worth much. What matters is statistics. What fraction of those who have corrective surgery regret it? The answer: less than 1 in 20. Most of that fraction includes…

I got PRK (epi-LASEK actually) in 2011. It is without a doubt the best money I have spent. Beforehand I was 20/450 in each eye. Now I'm 20/15 in each eye and 20/10 combined. Althou…

Apple seeds contain cyanide, not arsenic: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp I agree with your point though. Lots of natural things are deadly. In fact, the most toxic …

There's no IV, but the AES key changes each time you encrypt the secret. The key is random.

Good catch. My comment was already rather long, so I didn't mention that the public key actually encrypts an AES key that encrypts the secret. A different AES key is used for each …

First: I completely agree. Keeping plaintext secrets in source control is a bad idea. Encrypting them is a good idea. If you have plaintext secrets, encrypt them now using this mak…

Can you give us the steps to reproduce? I googled around but couldn't find the bug. I also tried a few different languages and I can't get Terminal.app to crash.

Quick, get ahold of the engineers at Boeing! Tell them to switch to whatever they used on their older planes! Surely they haven't considered that idea yet! Have you ever been in a …

I know. I was just poking some fun at TextMate. TM2 was delayed by what, 6 years? One can't not joke about that. I actually use TextMate 1.5 more than I use Sublime Text. Unfortuna…

I see ST3 bundles its own version of Python 3.3 on all platforms. ST2 did this on Linux and Windows, and it was quite annoying. In ST2, the ssl module is broken on Linux and the se…

It's a very rare situation in which truncation is worse than a buffer overflow. I'd also bet that erasing the destination string is more liable to cause problems than truncating it…

//C11, safe version of strcat errno_t strcat_s(char * restrict s1, rsize_t s1max, const char * restrict s2); strcat_s() copies no more than s1max bytes to s1. The second function, …

You make an excellent argument for dropping the GPL and adopting the Affero General Public License. After all, the GPL doesn't force commercial web apps to release their modified s…

In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had l…

The last graph amuses me: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/01/22/graph_custom-3939... Even on a log-log graph, the data looks like a shotgun spread. Species of similar mass hav…

The probability of revival varies based on who you ask. SEM micrographs of cryopreserved mammal brain tissue show intact nanostructure. One can even see synaptic vesicles with neur…

I'll address it, but I don't think cost is your true rejection[1]. If I was talking about a highly-experimental cancer treatment, I doubt you'd nitpick the price. Doubly-so if you …

The cost is low enough today that it could be much more common. Even the most expensive set-up (Alcor whole-body, whole life insurance) is about $130/month for a healthy person in …

Good point, but I'm not sure I agree with your second sentence. At every place I've worked at since 2008, most devs used laptops and plugged them into monitors and keyboards. I'm s…

Why limit yourself to a $1,000 budget? If you're writing code, that's a small percentage of your yearly income. If a more expensive laptop makes you 5% more productive, it's worth …

Magazine restrictions are a separate law in most states. California has an assault weapon ban which restricts features such a pistol grips, collapsible stocks, and flash hiders. Th…