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I used to love Java mostly for its batteries-included well designed standard library. Despite the verbosity of the language itself. But over time the language has really evolved a …

PHP has always escaped forward slashes to help prevent malicious JSON from injecting tags into JavaScript I believe. Because it was common for PHP users to json_encode some data an…

Same — it’s absolutely other-worldly. Like being in an alien spaceship. Truly breathtaking. One of my favourite places in the world.

I agree with a lot of the comments that (1) giving heartfelt thanks (which you can do more than once over the years) and (2) being there to help them if they ever need it and (3) p…

Like other commenters I used Game Maker 20 or so years ago and not only made games but also programmed little utilities to solve problems at my Dad’s work. It was a phenomenal blan…

A family member works in banking phone support and the scams people get caught by are unbelievable. Every week people are convinced by scammers to give their bank cards to a taxi t…

Bought and played this as a "non-Computer-Science" developer and really enjoyed it and learned from it. It helped with understanding intuitively some concepts that I hadn't deeply …

No. Half way through the article she specifically starts doing everything on the B+ (the old RPI with the issue).

Same! I created numerous games with early GameMaker as a pre-teen. I even managed to use it for making various useful little programs, like an interactive calculator to show my Dad…

Box’s “influence over authority” is a good read: https://boz.com/articles/influence-over-authority

Yes, business and first class commonly have power-operated seat adjustments (recline, lay flat, extend foot rest).

Interviewers not showing up seems really weird and surprising. At that point the hard work of scheduling etc. is done.

Even then, whenever you’re dealing with large amounts there’s risk. E.g., early on in Bitcoin’s development a user lost a lot of Bitcoin by making a small test transfer, not realis…

Tuple’s audio quality really is good enough to feel noticeably different to Zoom or other VC. Much more like your pairing partner is in the room talking into your ear.

We use the described setup at our company and the VPN software (Viscosity) auto connects so seamlessly that you never really need to do anything manually. Works really well.

Very clever approach, I like the simple text-based format.

This is typically so you can't simply subscribe someone else using their email. The 'victim' would only get a single email and they'd have to subscribe to keep receiving them. It a…

I'm delighted they're finally doing this. I've a 2011 Macbook Pro sitting on a shelf for the last year because the graphics went haywire and eventually it wouldn't start at all.

I think a slightly more practical approach would be to make an easily self-hosted web proxy with an accompanying Google Chrome (or other) extension that can rewrite all network req…

Searching for "voice calling" changes the input to "voice\ calling". And then there are no results :(

The "Favorite Languages" need a little updating. I wanted to pick OCaml, Rust and Hack.

I think that was addressed by the author: '... the long S is that it occurs only in the middle of words, never at the beginning or end.'

Lots of ways actually: it could be hosted on the web but use HTML5 offline storage and caching; it could use something like node-webkit or atom-shell; it could be a Chrome extensio…

I'm delighted to see Atom open sourced. I tried it out a few weeks back and came across a bug where the editor would lock up when a few empty files were created. Then I couldn't di…

The actual behaviour (the link with a random email address) is so far from the expected behaviour I'm finding it hard to believe how it happened. Probably search indexing/ranking e…