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I don't see e.g. a GitHub repo to comment on, but the HSTS header example is `Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; always` `always` has no meaning, and p…

This link discusses a nice example of RSA. There was also a paper in 2014 by Bellare, Paterson, and Rogaway [1] discussing this notion more thoroughly (under the name "algorithm su…

...and the ability to actually abort long computations? ;-)

I'm a fan first/rest because of Mathematica. It has four functions that all end in "st", which means I can always recall the one I need: First, Rest, Most, Last (Results on Range[4…

http://caniuse.com/ lists Javascript API features.

2x as fast , not 2x faster , although the actual page doesn't make that mistake. That always bothers me, because even technical people get it wrong, making it hard to interpret "X …

Oh, I see. I was struck by the direct phrasing of "You couldn't take the average number of pages", which made me parse the rest of the comment incorrectly.

Why wouldn't you be able to get the average? Return page count + total pages for each shelf and then take the ratio of "reduced" sums.

I've been using QSQRCode to send data to my phone: select, send to Quicksilver and display QR code for the phone to scan. Tap2Tab sounds like an interesting approach, though, and I…

That's not particularly optimized; it's als from 2003, when speedcubing was not as advanced. If you want a fairly good attempt at an understandable minimum method, look at http://w…

Dropbox is a folder dropbox, it's not MobileMe, or WhateverCompanyComprehensiveDataCloudSolution. (Although doesn't Google already do everything but files pretty well?)

Anyone else think the top of that page looks beautiful?

This is a font with 26 uppercase letters, inspired by the maze font used in promotional posters for the movie INCEPTION. Almost of the work was done in Inkscape and FontForge; I pl…

It's a font with 26 uppercase letters, inspired by the maze font used in promotional posters for the movie INCEPTION. Almost of the work was done in Inkscape and FontForge; I plan …

We had an entire set of programming questions at ProCo (programming contest held at Stanford for high school students) themed with XKCD comics last May: http://cs.stanford.edu/wiki…

I just came across Hofstadter's "I am a Strange Loop" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop ) in the library for the first time today. I personally care about his idea…