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Well, another five years until it shows up on http://olduse.net/ (which is worth a nostalgic browse if you haven't tried it)

More details on the main site: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/#np-855 Self-taught computer scientists should also note: Formal admission into the OMS CS program will require a Bachelo…

There's a long extract from the book here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/19/genius-downstair...

This reminds me of hacking ANSI.SYS escape sequences back in the day. You could create a text file which would be "executed" when someone entered "type readme.txt" at the DOS promp…

Perhaps everyone is trying out siege.

Looks interesting. I imagine a common use case would be for all exceptions to trigger an AJAX post back to your server, so they can be logged alongside normal server-side errors.

Actually the award Go won was "the highest rise in ratings in a year". That said, I do agree their methodology is pretty suspect. The thing is, a lot of developers look to Tiobe to…

The full article is at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... I couldn't put it in the submission because of HN's dupe detection.

Slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience of the Software Engineering course mentioned at the end of the linked page? The functional/concurrent programming courses look q…

For what it's worth, my password was 8 random alphanumerics, and it's not in the list, while /.,mnbvcxz (12 alphanumerics with symbols) is there. The cracker must have some sort of…

In fact, all the passwords included seem pretty weak. As the group tweeted a few days ago, "I argue that the simplest hack embarrasses the target more and thus wins"

For those of us who grew up with QBasic: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92

I read a similar article which was written five days earlier: http://www.richardrodger.com/2011/04/05/the-javascript-disru... The author points out that Douglas Crockford's writing…