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PlantUML supports this https://plantuml.com/handwritten Add this to any diagram to get the effect you want, skinparam handwritten true skinparam monochrome true Demo: https://tinyu…

The EU has restrictions on this kind of stuff - http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...

Yes, that would be normal. During an acquisition the future is unknown so you don't have a reliable roadmap you can use to set or update development goals. Other activities that ta…

Ember is fantastic, the oldest projects I have are about 4 years old and have been (more-or-less) painlessly upgraded every now and again. Everything is ember-cli and ember-cli-dep…

That works very well combined with RFC 6902 - JSON-PATCH for partial changes to JSON objects, which in turn works nicely with HTTP PATCH method, RFC 5789.

Uh, Gates not a programmer? You might want to check your history. By all accounts he is, or was, an excellent programmer who definitely got his hands dirty. [edit add refs] Joel's …

Needs an active FB session to read.

Not to rain on anybody's parade here, but for first-time vim users I recommend not using any plugins and only selectively adding them one at a time after the basics (buffers, navig…

That depends on how long it's been in the codebase. As this case is covered in the Rails security guide _and_ the Ruby security reviewer's guide I'd expect it to be quite old and n…

This article contains a number of fallacies. Storing sessions on disk? Over NFS? In the database? Please - no-one does that. And random MySQL bashing? What's that based on? MySQL i…

I'd like to know too, but I'm not skeptical of the 200k figure. If this is going to work then it's not going to be a solo effort, so let's say one or two more devs and someone to d…

If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately hope this'll be some old school "let's open up IDA and see what's what here" article.

"And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a picture of a cat!)" Aren't you supposed to treat user data as confidential and not examine the contents?

example.com is protected by RFC 2606 ("Reserved Top Level DNS Names") for special use (with example.org and example.net - along the same lines as the reservation for 127/24, 192.16…

Actually you're both wrong and a little right. I think you both imagine that transfusions are 1 on 1. (1 donor, 1 recipient). In this case, the numbers you present kind-of work out…

This is a preview article that isn't even 2 paragraphs long and requires subscription to read the whole thing. How did this make the front page?

I run FF on linux for dev work (not on FF itself, but for JS heavy web apps). Actually, I run a whole bunch of different FF versions with different profiles for testing a huge vari…

I recently started coding Obj-C in XCode and was very surprised that it's far less polished than what you expect from an Apple experience. That is mostly because an Apple experienc…

My guess is yes, they do. If you read a bit deeper into their announcements you'll notice that this is not just 'the government taking over'. The breach post-mortem was handled by …

> [..] it is a sure way of getting employment especially if one is studying a field in which employment is scarce outside of academia, say, philosophy. Just a random observation, b…

I've done my share of cleanups in various languages. I don't agree that Rails code is "a special kind of horrible", but there are a few things that seem to be very common in Rails …