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The way my mud did it, and I believe most muds (considering I took my implementation from another popular codebase), was not by forking. Sockets are just files, so all we did was s…

Tidbit inspired me to write my own web-miner, which I open sourced. It's hacked together as I was really just trying to learn how the cryptocoin&mining stuff worked. The mining rat…

Does Yahoo have a public bounty program?

You probably would if you travel, or go to conferences...

The top answer in that thread is excellent. Basically, "it depends". having dealt with extremely DB-intensive applications, I have developed a personal motto of "be nice to the DB"…

He posted on a real person's wall with the initial bug report. It says right on the /whitehat page not to do that, and he mentioned /whitehat in his bug report, so he should have k…

What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush The Microsoft installatio…

It doesn't have explosive bolts.

Also a bit problematic if you happen to roll your car over on its top...

It sounds like you want everyone to be a system administrator. That is not going to ever happen. The human history of inventing has one very consistent theme: making things easier …

The main turnoff for me when it comes to Rails is watching other major companies like Twitter completely rewrite their application away from Rails. Growing pains -- the kind of pai…

Also Android 4.2.2

In the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1966), an electromagnetic catapult is used to deliver goods from the Moon to Earth. It is similar to what you described -- just a really…

I really wouldn't call this an alternative. If you are running memcached, it's very unlikely you can switch to Groupcache. Parts of your application may rely on the expiration feat…

I can give some examples but my point was basically you have to test for your specific desired user base, and these kinds of posts don't really mean much. Some things that we did: …

Your target audience is going to heavily influence most of these. At a previous company our target audience was older women. We A-B tested every single element on our landing page,…

Russia isn't worried about America becoming too powerful. Russia's stance is that your country should worry about itself, and leave other countries alone. Putin has said many snark…

This phrase 'direct access' -- I wouldn't assume, if there exists something like PRISM, that it would have 'direct access' to anybody's servers. More likely, the data would be give…

You can't just view anyone's private photos. They have to have been logged into facebook (have a session) and then go to your domain with the exploit.

That is what the US is about, and the citizens have spoken through this petition that we want it changed. Responding to petitions by telling the petitioners to petition harder is k…

In my experience RDS has been amazing, and I am a MySQL guy. I say it like that because as a MySQL guy I would much prefer to setup my own server and use a third party engine like …

What is the "problem" that you want solved?

There should be a simple "no" or at least "no, undecided"

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Ruby isn't cool anymore? Are startups cool? I think we'd all agree startups are pretty cool. Going through the HN job postings, my findings are: Ruby with 6.5 jobs Python with 4 Ja…