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It still has the integer ID in the URL, so if you're willing to drop $20 a week on getting your own pizza, you can still see how many online orders Dominoes gets - it could be valu…

The article says this is repairing a loophole: > The 1959 law on which the regulations are based already required employers to disclose the hiring of such consultants. But the Labo…

Normally you're right that no net exposure implies no risk. However, you've completely forgotten the financial crisis? Counterparty risk can completely destroy the idea of "all pos…

As an outsider to the field, I really enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.pcg-random.org/paper.html It's advocating for a particular new kind of PRNG, but it also includes a lot…

This assumes that random people die each year. However, if you survive for a year, you are probably very tough, and your life expectancy might actually go up.

Mitsuhiko has written extensively about Py3 unicode problems, e.g. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ I think a lot of it boils down to, sometimes you real…

Link for the lazy: https://www.qubes-os.org/

This is super interesting - especially the tool they used. It looks like it interposes itself at the RPC level, unlike Jepsen which intervenes at the network level. That lets it cr…

Thanks for this interesting answer! I read most of the getting started guide last night and I'll probably try Elixir for a toy project sometime soon :)

Are macros useful in a web development context? I don't feel like I've been missing them in Django, but maybe I've just forgotten because it's been a long time since I wrote anythi…

"dog eats software" - Examine why dogs will eat poop. - In what way did many dog owners get very upset when their dog eats poop? - Is this a wonderful opportunity for their dog to …

tl;dr - * Content Neutrality: Content blocking software should focus on addressing potential user needs (such as on performance, security, and privacy) instead of blocking specific…

Might want to electrical-tape over the phone's front-facing camera, and maybe even excavate out its microphone. Just In Case.

I can't zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(

Jesse's "stir DOM" fuzzer, which fits in a tweet & a bookmarklet: pick = a => a[a.length * Math.random() | 0]; elts = document.all; stir = () => pick(elts).appendChild(pick(elts));…

Also MarkupSafe - https://github.com/mitsuhiko/markupsafe It's a little bit meta, but I had lots of "wow" moments. Also, it's a nice example of using C to speed up certain operatio…

I don't know of such a book that's targeted to experts, but you can get a good idea of those things by skimming the first 2 or 3 chapters of Zed's [Learn Python the Hard Way]( http…

One reason is that in many cases, it's easy to do a large number of trials, so this only makes an attack slightly less practical. They go from being able to tell your secret after …

Cute article about the genre of bugs: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/anthonyv/...

Amazon's security advisory seems to indicate that they have this capability for 90% of EC2 instances (leaving 10% that must be rebooted). https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/main…

And lkml discussion of the follow-up patches: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00694.html

Git push gained the ability to change the remote working directory - but only if that copy of the repo has been set up to allow it.