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Welp tptacek has never seen anything like this so it must be made up! Obviously tptacek is smarter than the entire NSA. You heard it on HN folks! Nothing to worry about.

Did you ever think that maybe the majority of the Linux community knows better than you?

I think it's just a vocal minority. It's hard to say that "closed source" even has a community, so of course it's easy to point out assholes in the open source community. I find (a…

It won't be tolerable until we weed out anyone who might say anything that anyone finds slightly offensive. No jokes allowed. You think laws made to help people get up from the bot…

Have these programs been responsible for actually stopping any large scale terrorist attacks?

Is Fedora 21 Alpha my best choice for trying this out?

>The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces. This video says different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0

But will the galaxy S4 bend in your pocket and still be bent when you take it out?

>This is a problem with any object of similar proportions and rigidity when sufficient pressure is applied. Well they need to change their design then. It's a design flaw.

>SquareTrade found that the iPhone 6 holds up impressively well in drops, spills and slips But surprisingly they didn't test bends.

Horrible idea. If you tried to unify them you would have one bloated piece of crap or a desktop 90% of people hate. I like having the choice between a few good DEs. What I don't un…

Well I know I can't be the only person who had to look this up: >Teetotalism refers to either the practice of, or the promotion of, complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beve…

Except it's not open source. If it's not open source then you have no idea what's going on beyond what Apple tells you. Ask your self: Would Snowden use this phone? Your answer to …

Could you expand or provide a link?

But how much did the iphone 4 cost? If you pay $800 over 8 years thats $100 dollars a year. This thing only costs $100 every two years.

Isn't it likely that two years from now the price for a new phone will have dropped? So it could go from ~$100USD to maybe ~$70USD. Even if you upgraded something like an iPhone ev…

>At the last conference I attended, ~9/10 engineers were running macbooks They're both tired tropes. There is a pretty reasonable mix of hardware and software run by 'engineers' an…

Genuinely curious as somewhat of a novice, can any one give an example of how javascript is insecure in a way that is difficult to fix?

Don't know why you're getting down voted either. My old ipod touch is basically a brick. The battery doesn't last more than an hour, I can't update the OS anymore, 90% of apps aren…

Well it's hard to say that JS had this much attention in 1995. Let's give swift 20 years and see where it takes us?

Don't know why you're getting down voted, sure Swift has some neat features, but if any other company released something like this that was closed source, no one would really care.…

I would have to disagree. It all depends on how you learn JS. I really liked the book JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 6th Ed. which at many points talked about the differences bet…

It's not technically legal in any country because of a UN treaty. I think part of the reason it hasn't 'taken off' in countries where laws aren't enforced/it's decriminalized/etc i…

Amen Brother. I imagine a world where closed source software is looked down on in disgrace as unsafe and nonsensical. Soon we're going to see more and more successful closed source…

What about the firefox built-in pdf reader or google docs?