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The other way around (converting double quoted strings to single quoted ones) would be more understandable, as that is what str.__repr__ prefers: >>> "string" 'string' I sense a bl…

Would you mind telling me exactly which patchset you are referring to?

I registered several important accounts with @icloud.com email, because I was sure that I would never switch to Android besides the fact that the email looked cool (what a stupid r…

> Today, to encrypt your communication to websites, you use HTTPS which rely on a vast network of certificate authorities. This fact has been irritating me for a long time. Because…

Although I do not deny the necessity for certificate authorities for convenience, I do not understand why using CAs is the only option. Why does the TLS protocol not allow for usin…

The following is the code I wrote before reading the example pieces of code. void remove(IntList* l, IntListItem* target) { if (l->head == target) { l->head = l->head->next; return…

For any given P2P system which can be used to share a large amount of files, we can prove the system cannot exist with this question: Is there a way to prevent classified documents…

> the code is developed 100% in mainland China I am under the same impression and have some circumstantial evidence supporting it as someone who's been inspecting the code of the Z…

I sometimes imagine how wonderful it'd be if there were a viable alternative to the Web that is decentralized and infeasible to censor, only to realize that how great it is for the…

This project seems nice, but there's some detail I have trouble wrapping my head around: why is a template string represented as a lambda containing an f-string, instead of as a pl…

I quite agree. HTML/CSS/JavaScript is really flexible for sure, but it's because humans happen to be capable of parsing, and extracting information from, what would be chaos for ma…

I wonder why there are no email providers that offer an infinite number of aliases that cannot be associated with the primary address. Simply offering any aliases would soon fill o…

Instead of providing a temporary password, can't that service just give a user the session information that is sent to the server via cookies?

IMHO what is essential as a language feature for writing interpreters/compilers is algebraic data types and pattern matching on them, because they make things much easier when mani…

For downvoters - constructive counterarguments are welcome.

I agree with the sentiment. The common argument against rolling out your own encryption just baffles me. Because there are plenty of ways to roll out your own encryption safely and…