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Is this a standard naming convention for exploits?

I have seen xkcd #927 used to dismiss discussions of standards on HN so many times that it is the only xkcd comic I can recognize by number.

Rust has two types called Rc and Arc that have this behavior. When you clone an Rc pointer, the internal reference count increments, and as each clone disappears, the reference cou…

> support unauthorized vulnerability attempts That was probably just a random student who learned some fun stuff in Security class and slept through the Ethics lesson. I can't spea…

If you don't want to support commercial plugins, then those companies have no legitimate usecase that would require avoiding the GPL.

I almost went down this route on a project once. As soon as I noticed myself writing an identity map, I slapped myself in the face and just downloaded Symfony.

It seems to me that the author's system was in an incredibly unstable state to begin with. He's running a Debian prerelease with an unsupported filesystem, that had gone without up…

Oddly enough, back when the cylindrical Mac Pro was first announced, a coworker and I discussed how exactly one would rack them. We came up with something very similar, but slightl…

Flashing reds are based entirely off of how long it takes an "average" person to cross. As a relatively tall young adult, I walk much faster than the "average," so I can frequently…

My lightning talk - "Traversing the Montreal Métro with Python" - was accepted, and I'm super-excited! But also I'm super-excited about the rest of the schedule. There are 36 talks…

The "moderators on StackExchange" shot was good, but I really take offense to the "PyCon 2013" one. The reason stuff went wrong at that conference was because of the actions of one…

Also, this post jumped from #20 on the front page to somewhere below #360 in the time it took me to write my other comment.

Ah, the wonders of low-level assembly programming. I was a teaching assistant for an assembly course this semester at school, and one of the students was running a program in the d…

> On the one hand, it seems ridiculous (absurd, perhaps) to fire someone over a pronoun -- but to characterize it that way would be a gross oversimplification: it's not the use of …

He didn't quote Strunk & White to justify rejecting the patch, nor did he bring up the grammatical argument at all when reverting it. He just said "this is not worth spending time …

I use Symfony at work. I would love to contribute some of the patches and helpers I have written to Symfony, or release them as an independent bundle, but (a) I'm the only programm…

This looks like a fairly well-designed format. My main concern is that this seems to have suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gone directly to RFC. (Presumably there was an Intern…

Here's a point that gets forgotten in a lot of discussions of this issue: > We’re also underlining that our events are for over-18s, maybe even over-21s, by holding them in license…

Can you draw brightly colored lines on roads for a bus map? I like to mess around analyzing bus routes, but so far I haven't been able to find a computer-based tool for drawing the…

I like the implementation of the "Enum" class, especially the way they allow for enums with variant behavior and "abstract Enums" (something I could have used in Java recently). Bu…

At ITECS, our Systems division uses practical names like engr-ras-201 for servers. However, we have a bit more fun with workstations. My machine was named "waytso." I asked my boss…

Two and a half years into my bachelor's, Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation is the only computer science textbook I've had so far that I'd say I really found useful…

Working with basic data structures like maps, sets, and lists that you don't have to manually allocate takes approximately 20 times as much code as it does in nicer languages like …

For me, it just feels like instead of taking efforts to carefully design the language, they just picked the first thing that worked and froze it. And while I really like some featu…