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$750/$1160 is ~64%. The common definition for affordable rent is ~30% of monthly wage[1] (based on some quick google-fu). [1] http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/special-topics/…

if( DoSomething() ) goto fail; else if(DoSomethingElse()) goto fail; goto fail; else if(DoSomethingOtherThanElse()) goto fail; You get a syntax error at the final else-if. A better…

I'm partial to the "t33nz 1o1 \o/" cipher. input: correcthorsebatterystaple output: ~~krct^hrs333bttstpl$$:) input: password output: lulz!isma:PASSWORD#sorrynotsorry

In terms of huge blows to WhatsApp, nothing beats the original[1] leak which showed that WhatsApp was using IMEIs as a password. That didn't stop WhatsApp from growing into the beh…

That it uses the 'same' symmetric key for all users is what has everyone concerned. Coupled with the fact that WhatsApp stores your chats on external SD cards [1] without access co…

Forced obsolescence -- Microsoft learned from Windows XP.

When I did Operating Systems in University (in a group), I remember distinctly only 3 bugs that we had difficulty debugging: * re-using a loop variable from the outer loop in an in…