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So what about all the other gaming apps on the iOS store? Literally thousands of them are specifically designed to get (trick) kids to spend money on them. Apple is more than happy…

According to Trail of Bits : "There is no immediate risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities for most users. Even if the full details were published today, attackers would nee…

Not really, I know quite a few (conservative) Indians who haven't been able to stay in the US simply due to the taste of food. IMO Indian spices are much harder to get right, where…

With such little information out there at the present I don't believe there is any point to discussion right now. With just unverified speculation, people are resorting to their im…

I've thought about this a lot for India as well. To be realistic we would need unprecedented levels of transparency to get the amount of data needed to get usable results. With the…

Thanks for linking to the podcast, it was eye opening! Many people commenting here should listen to this before spouting off the same things repeatedly. It's so frustrating watchin…

What is also quite interesting about their platform is that they use Stackless Python for the game logic ( https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/stackless-pyt... ). Their …

Loved the simple, straightforward language used at the time. Currently even mainstream news sites are are just dripping with way too many marketing terms that don't really mean any…

I definitely prefer hg but github has pretty much won war so I'm stuck with git. At the end of the day I'm not going to get religious about version control, I have vim for that :)

That hula hoops bit was a bit... strange. If it were a couple of attractive girls I probably would also find myself staring. I mean, its just not something you see everyday working…

Obligatory link to the the skimmer: http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/?pagewanted=all#/Top+News

Is there any serious competitor at Digital Ocean's prices?

Looks like they have chosen to only use App Folder permissions rather than full Dropbox. I suppose it helps in getting production approval, but then if other apps are able to get t…

Can you clarify what you mean by that? The slightly less poor exploit off the extremely poor?

Isn't it obvious this is the result of a country of extremely low average income and extremely high population? Of course it would be great to have even a semblance of equality, bu…

The "R" and "5" are quite interesting, and the symbols look fun, specially that "@".