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As an aside, it's possible to modify Laurikari's algorithm slightly and obtain PCRE semantics w.r.t. capturing groups, and those correctly. (POSIX capturing semantics are designed …

Well, first off you make this (USE UNIQUE PASSWORDS) part of orientation, and maybe have part of orientation involve rolling dice and using the diceware list. Then, you reinforce t…

We can certainly do without passwords for every stupid little website. Unless you're rightfully a central force in the user's life - say, their main bank - you really should have u…

Don't store passwords at all if you can avoid it. Then, bend over backwards to avoid it. Do all login through OAuth or the related proprietary "login with" mechanisms Facebook and …

And worse, when you actually need to talk about someone screwing up and encrypting passwords (see http://www.xkcd.com/1286/ ), this mis-education of your readers will have to be ca…

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Goldman Sachs - they're way far ahead of any other large bank or financial services company.

Some more technical information is available on CrowdStrike's blog: http://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democr...

My experience with writing real production Haskell code is this: your first large Haskell project will be a failure, largely from missed deadlines and being unable to properly judg…

And unlike the one on stackexchange, it's actually correct! (I have a regex -> DFA compiler here that I just threw your regex through. Seven states, connected as expected)

Note that the 12,701 character regex is WRONG . It doesn't even match "70". Even the binary regex is wrong. The original 32K regex pointed to in the stackexchange problem statement…

This - that it's extremely rare to even be able to think the right things to produce maintainable code at that age - is why I've long thought that 12-15 is the right age to teach a…

It's specific to programming, but not exclusively to programming; there are a few other areas where "you haven't been doing this since you could walk? Too late to be truly good": -…

Yes, it is hilarious that even compared to gold, bitcoin manages to look unstable.

Why on earth would they do that? Making bitcoin illegal would be the biggest action the US Government could take to get bitcoin to flourish. Right now, bitcoin is like a country wi…

And looking at something already settled by the courts, it's also interesting to compare the article's chart on the legal status of interracial marriage with public opinion data: h…

Yes, it is a really weird property of 2-spheres that that holds. One consequence is that yet another way to pick a point uniformly on the sphere is to choose z ∈ [-1, 1] uniformly,…

Nor for 3-spheres (i.e. the 3-dimensional surface defined as all the points in 4-d space at distance 1 from the origin). Nor for higher dimensions than that. It's peculiar to the 2…

If you're going to use the (->) Monad instance, why not: {-# LANGUAGE MonadComprehensions #-} import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe) import Data.Monoid (mconcat) import Control.Applicative …

The ruby quiz did a round of this back after fizzbuzz had already jumped the shark the first time: http://rubyquiz.com/quiz126.html I personally thought that my two entries were pr…

Specifically, people should note that many code generators are not carefully designed for strict reproducibility, and will stick time stamps in generated output. Even if you undo t…

I think if you want to use the appropriate analogy, you have to include that it was fundamentally a public thing to do, even though she believed her audience tiny. Your analogy as …

I don't think HN is a bunch of MRA losers, but it's certainly closely connected to places that are. (as in, lots of people participate in HN who also participate in places that cou…

Heh. That's my dad's quote - I remember seeing that page tacked to his office cubicle wall back in the 90s when Unisys still employed programmers who had office cubicles.

Its usually (in my opinion) the subject of the photograph that makes it interesting, not the style that a photographer has put on it. Have you seen this guy's shots? I've tried tak…