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It's safe to use "420", the cops don't know man.

You don't need to be rich. It costs very little to fund a $30k life insurance policy, which will get your whole body suspended with Cryonics Institute. Alcor is more, $80k for just…

One difference is flow control. When you call a function, all the arguments are evaluated before being passed into the function. If you want to delay evaluation, you have to wrap t…

I second the other comments suggesting to at least treat online advice with a grain of salt. That said... I burned out some years ago and have been struggling with recovery since, …

"Come up with"? Absolute monarchies actually worked pretty well overall, we don't need to "come up with" anything when we can just restore the Stuarts[0] and their system, for inst…

Anything that even smells like the financial and banking industry is considered shady by a lot of people, not just programmers, after our Great Recession. A necessary evil at best,…

If you have the ability to MitM a high value site like facebook.com without getting caught, I think it's worthwhile to do so regardless simply because you'll get some portion of th…

I agree in that scenario it's hard to say whether one is more likely to be the true certificate than the other. If we're assuming attacks that aren't targeted towards specific user…

While we're making art style changes, why don't we change the experience for self-signed certs? When the user first visits an HTTPS page with a self-signed cert, they get the conte…

People enjoy overcoming challenges. (People also like to brag.)

Not really, sorry. I had forgotten that the first letter is compared case sensitively as I remembered from Nimrod it was all insensitive. But I still think for nearly all cases in …

You must not use grep with regexes very often.

Aha reminds me of STOKE: https://github.com/StanfordPL/stoke-release

No, they're not. At least, children in general don't enjoy the full rights of a legal adult person. Traditionally children were viewed as property of the parents, and in many sense…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor

I agree we should be able to give evolution the middle finger. But I disagree we can do so in any effective way in the timespan of 5 years, unless we somehow hit the Singularity by…

While this is sort of true, this attitude contributes to the problem another commenter mentioned about how working with FPGAs is like taking a trip to the 70s. There's no reason yo…

There's always personal BigDog robots...

There was an interesting talk at PyCon 2013 about programming using only your voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI Might be worth looking into for your case. It's wor…

Last submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611 Consider using Shen. https://github.com/hraberg/shen.clj http://shenlanguage.org/

It's really easy to memorize if your teacher presents it to the tune of pop goes the weasel ... Whether it's worthwhile to memorize or not, use a computer or not, the valuable conc…

I know right, I totally hate having to match Map > foo = someMethod(withMethodArg1(), andTwo()); Let's all just use Forth, and implement washing machines as simply as: : WASHER WAS…

The problem with "survival of the fittest" is that people don't understand that "fitness" is a technical term in evolutionary biology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_%28biolo…

I'm going to use that last line next time someone makes a perfectly reasonable request like "sod off FAA," or "please mr. bully stop beating me up."