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The stale old enterprise code is not in public repositories.

> [...] how a typical store with a shopping cart works; do everything on the server side, and just display it to the client. The same concerns apply for a typical shopping cart des…

As you wrote in your article, the new category becomes "another thing that needs explaining", and Fastly doesn't explain it well. I guess what's happening is that these companies s…

The article explains how the site has been designed not to send passwords to the server. Of course, it's up to you to decide if you trust them to keep it that way.

what if your output is more than 2000 bytes? The announcement says that "curl will inspect the beginning of each download", and I think that comparison just turns off the check aft…

The "15" is a link to a test case which shows the 15 commands. It's a contrived scenario in my opinion: it assumes that you want to merge a feature branch into the main branch whil…

Money that is put into an endowment fund effectively is a lifetime credit for anything.

Maybe they route all traffic through a VPN to Ecuador or something like that? I doubt that GCHQ would be the reason for internet problems; even if they have "a van in the street", …

> But if we take it to mean code point, then if the value is a surrogate… what should happen? Surrogates are code points. The spec does not say what should happen if the surrogate …

I'd prefer to throw an exception in that else block: throw new AssertionError("Should never happen");

> That's the main advantage of commit messages over comments - they are always fresh and encode the exact lines they refer to. Unless they're something like "fixed indentation".

From the article: "The disabled engine in Johannesburg will make its way back to Sydney at a much slower pace by ship."

The EasyPrivacy block list contains an entry that will block the piwik.js file. Of course, when you're self-hosting, it's trivial to serve that file with a non-default name.

"I learned how scope worked" does not imply that the author was previously unaware of the concept or didn't understand it at all, it just means that there was some aspect that she …

YNAB is double-entry but not the way you would normally do it (note, I have no idea how it is implemented under the hood, I'm just referring to how I explain YNAB's system to mysel…

In financial markets, China is usually considered an emerging markets country, not a developed markets country, so this is not necessarily a contradiction.

"The Chaos Computer Club therefore wants to reward the most beautiful initiatives(?) in 2015 against journalists..." I'd translate this as: "The Chaos Computer Club therefore wants…

There is a caution box in the description, which contains a different warning, and then the warning you have cited is in a second caution box in the "Notes" section, after the chan…