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Or end up with universities with safe-spaces, trigger-warnings and thin-skinned cowards.

As it happens I also live in a van (a VW T25 camper) because it's economically-efficient and convenient, and I don't have any urge to buy a million dollar house with a bunch of shi…

While the website is down, these are also neat: Hank bought a bus: http://hankboughtabus.com/ Castle truck: http://www.doityourselfrv.com/house-truck-castle/

Ahh, fondly remembering LOGO for the Apple II in grammar school when I was about 6.

You're holding it wrong. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0...

This one instance might be so (unions are imperfect human endeavors), but this article comes across as thinly-veiled MSM/establishment strawman/false equivocation via the perniciou…

There are way more than three, literally dozens and thousands more DIY.

What other deveops tools have you used/want to use?

Abstractions-on-top-of-abstractions which promise to reduce complexity by adding more levels of indirection, when the UX of the underlying tools need to be better. (Having wrote a …

According to the JRuby dev repo[0] the truffle branch[1] was merged into master and blog[2], Truffle may be bringing cexts back and higher performance to JRuby. If this could be sh…

French culture has some inconsistent, fascist, illiberalisms, especially in the differences of making fun of Christianity vs. making fun of Judaism, or similarly with Christianity …

Welcome to encouraging bitrot.

Yup, totally worthless, token effort.

- IceFloor (since OS X includes pf) - mDNSResponder -NoMulticastAdvertisements - Hands Off!/LS - Vera/TrueCrypt - Samhain/TripWire - GPG Tools - Homebrew packages - a password mana…

That is still your problem and you need to take responsibility for it. It is wiser to learn and know what you're talking about, don't just add ambient, useless, incorrect noise.

OS X Notes are good enough for me and better than Evernote. Evernote insecurity and quirks were just one straw too many.

For those Window people, Omnigraffle is basically why there is no Visio for Mac.

Dev: Ruby (chruby/ruby-install), node, postgres, redis, elasticsearch, Dash, MacVim Console: zsh, iTerm, tmux Mac apps: Bartender, Hands Off!, Breakaway (a 10.10+ fork), coconutbat…

Compress, encrypt and then MAC. If MAC fails, don't decrypt. If decryption fails, don't (and can't) decompress. If decompression fails, throw away data, because compression-to-encr…

The OP should take https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

It's ludicrous that it can't be something like Hyperloop, not for hundreds of billions and not take 50 years. PS: I'm from Silicon Valley, and I've heard about the mythology high-s…

In the US, corporate and wealth welfare combined are on the order of several trillion USD including subsidies, tax breaks and other incentives. Welfare proper is on the order of 70…

Neat. Speaking of stubborn, usually desirable plants: mint. Plant it separately in a container.

The most efficient fossil fuel-based engines are massive two-stroke diesels found on extremely large ships and in some peaker power gensets which currently have efficiencies just o…