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>I know it's hard to believe, but women don't usually get sent to coding summer camp as teenagers. Our parents don't usually encourage us to take AP computer science, and our best …

Is Asperger's really a valid excuse for this sort of thing? People on the autism spectrum aren't incapable of understanding that actions can lead to consequences and that some thin…

In this case there wasn't even a real security vulnerability, just a spear-phishing attack. Organizations need to hold employees accountable for their own stupidity if they want to…

Is it common for Chinese people to give their children English names, or is the intended audience native-english-speakers who are living in China?

Windows 98 truly did have the best UI of any Windows version. The newer versions of Windows all look like something Fisher-Price would design.

> unsafe languages There is no such thing.

> Applebaum might've been an epic plagiarist What are the plagiarism charges against him? I'm only aware of the sexual harassment/assault/rape allegations.

Yeah and in North Korea I can't call Kim Jong Un a fat piece of shit, but I guess that's just a reasonable limit to North Korea's freedom of speech. > In a German cinema you can't …

Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan aren't the only people whose privacy has been violated by Gawker, they're just the first ones to bite back. Thiel is a hero in my book.

TBH it sounds like they're just using reverse psychology to get their brand trending and it's working really well because now I'm reading about them on HackerNews.

Classic Windows. I miss the 90s.

That's a bait-and-switch if I ever saw one. I suppose it's more than a coincidence that this happens just as the free upgrade period comes to an end?

The only thing that should matter is which text editor she uses.

How susceptible is this Signal Protocol to a man-in-the-middle attack? Because if Facebook is going to be the man in the middle, then this feature is pointless.

That doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.

I MUST MOVE AT AN ACCELERATED PACE.

This sounds like an odd question, but I honestly need somebody to explain this to me...what is the motivation behind the modern trend to put everything on the web? Is there somethi…

The entire study is a pun. The joke is that since in most mathematical notations AB is a shorthand for A * B, then all words are actually products of their component letters; based…

This is about Chromium, not Chrome. A lot of people assume that Chromium is safer because things like this should get caught by the community. I think the lesson to be learned here…