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abadidea

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About abadidea

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    Comment #13173761

    > How odd, a Nazi/Hitler reference. Who'd had thought that was coming? Are you... seriously... trying to be all "wuh buh Godwin's Law froggle boggle" in December Two Thousand And S…

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    Comment #11340782

    > "Correct code in C is actually easy since the language is very simple." I broke back into this account just to share my marvel at the singly most wrong sentence in human history.…

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    Comment #7344173

    If by "he" you mean the person who drew the picture: First, I absolutely LOVE it when people assume I'm a dude. Plot twist: no I don't. If you don't know someone's gender, getting …

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    Comment #6957577

    My blog has been accruing more personal things and whiny rants lately. I decided to separate this from my doubtlessly profound philosophical ramblings about the meaning of life and…

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    Comment #6956512

    I did consider trying to work in the part where they shortened the keys and eventually DES became useless because of it, but it was a bit of a diversion from the salient (heh) reas…

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    Comment #6659346

    I just went to AOL keyword OPENBSD. Or it's not 1998 anymore and it's just common sense to type domain.org instead of www.domain.org. Why would anyone even have them be two separat…

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    Comment #6325280

    Thank Goddess you weren't around during the American Civil War so you could make a huge show of NOT participating as a white member of the Underground Railroad because the plight o…

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    Comment #6276981

    Yeah! Opting not to render the pixel configuration on your screen in the method suggested by the other end is a crime. So is using browsers with the graphics turned off, and being …

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    Comment #5702446

    [author here] I'm not supposed to directly call out corporations for mistakes in public because then their feelings will be hurt and they won't be a customer in the future ;) I was…

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    Comment #5702285

    Author here! I work in/study static analysis, so "running the program" would be entirely defeating the fun ;)

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    Comment #5155365

    I made a spreadsheet of 53 victims I found. It seems the defining trait is that the account was opened in 2007. There was like one or two from 2006 and one from 2012 but that one m…

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    Comment #4513930

    except when they do! http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

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    Comment #4511053

    No, I doubt that something closed in early 2010 has much to do with a new patch that has a rationale disabled from public viewing which implies it's a security emergency.