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I find this to be somewhat of a depressing attitude. While it's not mandatory that everyone fight every fight worth fighting, I wouldn't actively discourage those willing to take a…

A rant about software that he won't use. Clearly he has done some testing to see how things are, but why would he use something he's convinced is crap?

The bitsquatted domain sends two records, one for the squatted domain and one for the original name, pointing to the squatter's server. The parent article isn't as detailed as the …

I saw this talk at DEFCON. ECC memory solves the problem, however there are many components that don't have it, even in servers: NICs, HDDs/SSDs, or routers on the path. The most h…

The hacking scenes in 'Hackers' are completely off, but it's still one of my favourite movies. Maybe because of the age it's set in, or the 'feel' of the movie.

Numbers are only important if you're not looking to stand out. There are plenty of doctors, lawyers, writers and economists coming out of Universities at any given time. You don't …

Without knowing the internals of how Dropbox operates, my empirical observations are that they employ block-level deduplication, i.e. when you change bits in the middle of the file…

Why? I would consider this to be too much stuff if you had a lot of applications duplicating functionality. As it is, though, this seems like a pretty basic working set, very much …

That's kind of nifty, but I still prefer reading the hostname on the connection. I use a variation of Steve Losh's awesome zsh prompt and that helps make things petty obvious (if a…

Zed Shaw wrote this ( https://twitter.com/#!/zedshaw/status/54434747652390912 ) and then him and Dan Kaminski had a good talk on Twitter about it.

Definitely, but unfortunately a lot of one-off code meant for school assignments isn't valuable for anything else. And I wouldn't want GitHub to be littered with random things that…

I agree that this is the most valuable way to judge a candidate, but unfortunately I don't think it would work for most students and most companies (been through it all) because: a…

My knee-jerk reaction would be to agree, but I think it's also a matter of who can be helped the most. Smaller teams might not be able to afford extensive training from The Big Ner…

It's up to apps to implement it. But why, do you honestly think it will get in the way anywhere besides IDEs (and maybe not even there...)? This is an honest question because I can…

The guidelines say that apps should auto-save their documents on Lion, and you can bet Apple'sown productivity suite will. So snapshotting every 2 seconds might not work out too we…

That's certainly what I notice, and I am a student of CS. I find it bizarre that so many of my colleagues really feel they are in CS to learn how to program, rather than to study t…

I'm sure they will, but 24 hours after a decently-publicized launch is a good starting point. I'd be more concerned with how the measurements were taken, because hitting the page t…

What is a 'minor version upgrade' and how do you propose Apple automates that process? Surely you don't expect that stealing your address book would prompt the developer to make th…