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I can't read the article now, but in my opinion the fact that it's so difficult to write robust shell scripts above a very basic level of complexity (e.g. do this, then do that, th…

As someone who can't draw a thing, there's a phenomenon I've noticed that might apply. Every time I need to draw something out, I try to hold it clearly in my head, where it looks …

I know there are some asshole IP contracts out there, but I think even so a company would have a hard time claiming ownership of a project an employee did for someone else, in his …

> I wouldn't say the signup is prohibitive in any way I would. I didn't sign up. The concept looked interesting, but there was no real information on this side of the sign-up wall.…

Are these people deluding themselves, or just scamming?

If a user logs in, and their work factor is the low one, authenticate them, and then calculate the new hash with the higher work factor, and save the new hash and work factor.

I guess "local optimum" wasn't the right word. I got suck in a configuration in which my breed() method couldn't get closer to the goal, because it was just shuffling around charac…

Okay. It helps if you sort your fitness correctly. Also it looks like if you keep mutations too low, you'll get stuck in a local maximum.

Geez. Tried to do this myself. 10k generations in and still not a recognizable string.

Yuck. portsnap fetch extract (yet more awesome software from cpersiva)