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SeldomSoup

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    Comment #21111517

    I don't think it does you any good to be honest here. The conclusion most employers would come to is that you're not cut out for CS work.

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    Comment #11003600

    Riseup also has a comprehensive guide on setting up a secure hidden service: https://help.riseup.net/en/security/network-security/tor/oni...

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    Comment #10794659

    As someone whose desktop needs are pretty simple, I agree with this assessment. If you want a *nix that's point-and-click configurable, looks nice, makes it easy to install softwar…

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    Comment #10679798

    Chrome does many things right. I use Firefox and am ecstatic about the new extension architecture, for example.

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    Comment #10678794

    The French Revolution saw so much bloodshed for so little change (for the ordinary people at least).

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    Comment #10678756

    Absolutely. Two days ago (before the open source announcement), I begrudgingly started learning Swift for a school project in iOS development. Now I'm itching to dive into the lang…

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    Comment #10665495

    > court-approved Remember, this a secret court, whose judges are likely highly biased in favor the government, with secret proceedings where only the NSA gets to make a case. Not e…

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    Comment #10657382

    > If you want to erase a drive fast then use the following command (where sdXXX is the device to erase): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXXX bs=1048576 Question: is there a disadvantage …

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    Comment #10448142

    We account for ~4% of the world's population and ~25% of the world's prisoners.

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    Comment #10391123

    > I wonder what world you all live in in which this is a bad thing. The world where we all depend on secure communications for autonomy of our own lives?

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    Comment #10388669

    No, you'd just need one increment after all of them. An increment in every else-if block is redundant because only one condition can be executed per loop.

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    Comment #10381929

    With the current code, you would need a counter increment for every if statement.

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    Comment #10305547

    It's a cryptographic mechanism. MS has a private key they apply to each Windows update to mathematically prove A) they're the ones who issued it and B) the content was not modified…

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    Comment #10201960

    Seems like a redundant flag. Many utilities are perfectly fine reading from stdin if no [file] is specified, without any kind of -f flag.

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    Comment #10200787

    Oops. That's one detail I missed in all those API tutorials. Thanks.

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    Comment #10200581

    How does this miss the point of REST?

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    Comment #10198151

    Each one of an infertile individual's parents belongs to its own species.

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    Comment #10193134

    Same deal for Howard County, MD. We had to get up at 6 to be on the bus by 6:30, and it was pitch black outside in the winter months. Luckily I had an forty-minute bus ride, which …

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    Comment #10175855

    > The idea is you apply styles to elements through JavaScript. Great. Now simply reading a page without JS will become impossible, let alone interacting with it.

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    Comment #10157155

    Interestingly, the author goes on to recommend if(rc as a countermeasure for that breed of bug.

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    Comment #10133291

    You seem to be right ( https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png ), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.

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    Comment #10107242

    Twitter is right and wrong here. Yes, users should have the ability to rescind what they express on their personal pages - but others should also be able to archive those thoughts …