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No, those two statistics alone don't say anything about the total number of CS majors. Per the article, CS represents ~20% (of students with declared majors).

This list appears to include only software packaged in Debian, but that fact does get a mention at https://www.debian.org/intro/about#history

Diceware is great, though the paper fairly points out that algorithms like that and https://xkcd.com/936/ necessarily often choose very uncommon words. I suppose the Markov model c…

Agreed that the expandable sections feel a little unusual for this type of documentation. They're great for drilling down to particular information, but not so much for skimming or…

By Kerckhoffs's principle, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle

Cool to watch, though this is a fairly straightforward model of complex contagion on a finite grid. It's similar to Conway's Game of Life in that there's a grid and local rules, bu…

I believe using those together counts as two user-defined conversions and is rejected. But one or both of those might as well be declared explicit.

> I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery. Linguist tries to filter out things like that: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

> Migrate to a cmake-based build > Legacy support and compile-time features > Platform-specific code Sounds like well-justified cleanup, although it's possible this project is unde…

Twilight (color adjustment is in the free version) works nicely too.

So the jQuery regex, for comparison, is (^|/)jquery([^.]*)(\.min)?\.js$ while the Bootstrap regex in question is (^|/)bootstrap([^.]*)(\.min)\.(js|css)$ with the ".min" not optiona…

Firefox just shows broken images, because of

Since multiprocess is in the regular Nightly, the code is in the main line of development (mozilla-central). Based on the preference, it decides at runtime how to handle the conten…

Texas licenses software engineers, as do some Canadian provinces, and IIRC (from my SE ethics course) some other US states are implementing similar programs. https://en.wikipedia.o…

I only noticed one password hint that exactly matched the password -- I'd have thought that would be disallowed. Plenty of hints that were the password plus one character, reversed…

Alternate degree structures and modes of instruction are definitely worth exploring. Points #1 and #5, though, would likely not go over well with current university faculty. Reshuf…

The Mozilla community is very accepting of new volunteer contributors. Ask how you can help! For Rust specifically, I found this: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-guide-fo…

I guess the point that I was really trying to make was that reading the code and documentation can only get you so far, and doesn't help nearly as much with the bigger-picture "why…

Anyone else remember these from Amazon Trail (in the final scoring process)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazon_Trail

Oops, that's right.

Beside the point, but "a 40-year-old man" "He was a civil rights activist in the 1960s" doesn't really add up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill#Fixed_memory_method...

My history file is de-duplicated (oh-my-zsh enables hist_ignore_dups), so this sort of approach is never accurate. Git comes out on top, but presumably because most of my invocatio…

Similar work: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~elie/networks.html (on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4914267 ) http://ajverster.github.io/blog/2013/04/01/redditinteraction...