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Castle Adventure? https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castle_Adventure_1984 That's how I learned to spell the word "necklace"

I switched to Firefox for a week and wanted to kill myself. Basically, extensions still aren't forced to behave. As soon as you install a non-e10s extension, it disables e10s entir…

How is this different/better than Gmail's address+spammer@gmail.com?

I've been doing a little interviewing at my company, hiring engineers. I tend to avoid the pop quiz questions because I, having been asked them in interviews before, can't imagine …

"Novices to the language have a tendency to overuse channels." "The explicit instruction to [new] Go programmers is that they should avoid channels... [is] false." -- Isn't this a …

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"Do not perform table alter commands. Table alter commands introduce locks and downtimes. Instead, use live migrations." You know what avoids alter? Going schemaless.

The groups studied all live and are genetically from within 20 degrees latitude (S). USA is from 30--50 deg N, and genetically probably higher. I would be willing to bet that highe…

"due to Third Party Doctrine, users forfeit their legal right to privacy by merely making it possible for sysadmins to access their information. This means the sysadmins can legall…

How is this not functionally equivalent to TLS client-side certificates? Yes, I understand that there's a UX problem, but CBCrypt has to solve that in addition to the crypto proble…