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every feature ... leaves another possible angle of attack for hackers Hm, I think the point is that some features are worse than others (larger attack surface, more bugs exposed), …

Lots of investors own minority parts of facebook. But no outside company owns facebook.

It doesn't say which day they'll skip. I'd pick a Monday.

Oh look, it's there near the end in one dismissive sentence, and comes along with two wrong "facts": 1) the household contribution to algae creation is negligible - That would be t…

An anoying article. The author rants at length about how evul the gubmint is for banning clean shirts, calls "trisodium phosphate" "a natural element" which cannot be correct chemi…

If social recommendations didn't work then amazon would have no 'people who bought, also bought...' The point is, if your business starts off as "we sell books" (and expands to "we…

I can say I became a Go fanboy in the last few weeks Go looked to me like a c-language guy's take on very simple OO with a few functional and parallel features. On the whole the AP…

have an order of magnitude less number of apps Past a certain point, that stops mattering. Does iPhone have 1 million apps available, or is it 10 million ? I don't know and I don't…

For comparison, I came up with this in C# Func sum = (x, y) => x + y; I had to specify the type explicitly, could not use 'var' type inference; the error is "Cannot assign lambda e…

I have no idea how you could tell a dev to wing it, let him work for months with no oversight and then be shocked when he came back with something unexpected. I hope he's exagerati…

Yes, it kind of failed on "movie times for 'source code'". That's a sentence that's hard to parse without context ;)

do you know anyone who doesn't know C but is still excellent at coding/computer-science? You don't? How parochial. I recommend tht you study a good functional language for a while.…

It got " how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wouldchuck would chuck wood " right for me. I am impressed now. But it couldn't handle " Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'…

There is no easy way to see what Android version you are exactly running Is Menu|settings|About phone not enough for you?

Hah, that trumps my example by 200 years. Well done.

This is very well explained, but not all that novel. Brian Eno used to generate long soundscapes like this, using loops of mutually prime lengths of time. Edit: See also - http://e…

I'm also not splitting hairs. of course you aren't. We know this because you say you aren't. What you are is making a nuanced distinction between what you mean when you say "stores…

Close. Which is what I don't like about the samples that I have seen in his Go language. Code like "Fmt.PrintF" seems a step backwards to me.

Personally, I find "thisVariableIsTheLoopIndex" to be a terrible loop index variable name. But "i" isn't great either. "index" seems to be closer to the sweet spot to me. Or "fooIn…

Doesn't Java have any kind of type inference for variables yet? C# allows you to say var foo = new Dictionary (); and foo's type is infered as Dictionary

I'll be more specific about failures of security and vigilance: "separate secured system" aren't always as seperate and secured as they should be. Assume that all computers can con…

I agree this law doesn't seem to outlaw hashed passwords, it simply means that you need to store 2 copies of the password - one hashed, and one in plain text. You are splitting hai…

I'm actually surprised things haven't gotten cheaper by more than a factor of 5 in half a century. We're used to electronics getting cheaper as we find ways to make smaller and fas…

Don't forget John Carmack - from Doom at Id softare to Armadillo Aerospace

While it's not what I would choose for my kids, the money isn't uneared. His parents or ancestors earned it Oh, come on. You're just spliting hairs. I'm not jealous of it, but in n…