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I can 100% recommend this. Using O'Reilly like a library instead of a bookstore makes me a better developer no question.

According to the engineer who tested the cable: "Most devices with a well-specified connector will not have any reverse bias protection in them because both it shouldn't be needed …

Fortunately, probabilities for birth control methods aren't presented in this way. Generally, when an organization like Planned Parenthood says that the symptothermal method is 99.…

Hooray for trivializing _actual_ issues in tech. Oh, and a rape joke thrown in for good measure. Jesus.

I don't think that's what happened. The article talks about a security audit using a fake FedEx box after the fact, but it sounds like this guy just got a hold of some keys or pass…

They're preying on our desire for instant gratification, no doubt.

This reminds me of a small project I tossed together: http://git-fortune.bclune.org It grabs a random commit message from a github repo and displays it. By default, it pulls from a…

I agree, the presentation is fantastic! Well done.

The testing methodology is quite flawed (at least for the reading speed test on the site). It asks you to read a passage with BeeReader to start out. When you're done, you're prese…

Odd, must have been some caching thing. Changing the language caused it to show up.

The acknowledgement appears to be gone now, unless I'm missing something.

Similar to the mysql-semicolon cluster: http://jvns.ca/projects/unix-command-survey/graph.html?cente... ;

When using ln to link files, I tend to recite: ln -s "what you want," "where you want it"

This is pretty cool. Simple but extremely useful. I've written a quick and dirty port to Python, for anyone who'd like to take a look: https://github.com/bclune/rubber_bullets

For a 12-character password, a computer with 2 decent GPUs (16000M hash/sec for MD5) can crack the numeric password in just over a minute. Once that's known, the real password can …

This is way cool, though I can't help but think that the results might differ from actual A/B testing because the testing context is explicit. Have you done comparisons to backend …