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abscondment

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About abscondment

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    Comment #4113695

    How does this not constitute libel? I'm not a lawyer, so the question is in earnest.

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    Comment #4085436

    I'm very open to correction, but won't the increased time complexity of bcrypt also mitigate this kind of attack?

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    Comment #4081014

    This seems specious. Correctly assigning blame won't matter to readers; most people couldn't care less. Sticking a different brand name on the failure is side-stepping the issue: n…

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    Comment #3570404

    Other co-founder here- The logos weren't shown on mobile devices up until a few moments ago. Now they're visible everywhere.

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    Comment #3530394

    > Then they conspired (shown in leaked emails) to only follow DMCA requests coming from large US entities (while ignoring requests coming from Mexico, for example). Color me ignora…

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    > Also, shouldn't these simple bugs be quickly and fully discovered by automated tests? Do you actually believe this? Tests are a nice first pass, but they'll never fully discover …

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    Comment #3345912

    IANAL, but this is only partially true. * Marital status is a protected class. You can't consider it when hiring. * Age is a protected class. You can't consider it when hiring. * P…

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    Comment #3345889

    I'm 27, with a wife and three kids. I've been working full-time on my own startup for the past 9 months. Without salary. See, there are plenty of us who can kick ass and raise a fa…

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    Comment #3298723

    Even on iOS 4, the iPhone 3G doesn't support multitasking.

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    Comment #3292005

    Personally, I find myself disagreeing with both sides too much for this to be effective at all. I'm not going to say one should or shouldn't vote Democrat. But, there are too many …

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    I assume you overlooked O(n). You've probably used Bayes' theorem and the binomial coefficient, if only indirectly. But I tend to agree with you: many of these are skewed by the au…

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    Comment #3253032

    If time and attention really are the determining factors, maybe we parents should just chuck our smartphones and tablets for the first 5 years. I'm only partly joking. I ditched my…

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    Comment #3249014

    Can you elaborate? I don't follow how that might come about.

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    Comment #3231178

    These definitely sound like attitudes you'd want to watch out for and combat, but I'd be really hesitant to treat them as grounds for dismissal.

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    Comment #3135843

    For some reason, these slides are only available in a flash widget that's synchronized with the video. Here's a little script to grab the flash and build a PDF for yourself. ImageM…

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    Comment #3053877

    Spawn More Overlords!