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Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. Is this irony or just staggering cluelessness? A family net worth of $2 mi…

... if you're getting the checksum from a trusted source that is separate from the package distribution server, or if the checksum is cryptographically signed. But I've never seen …

How is this the slightest bit different than faking a site and altering the binary/source package on the other end of a regular old Download link? (edit: Oh. You're doing user-agen…

I've always used the browser RSS button precisely in order to add feeds to Google Reader -- I feel like that's the button's main use case. It's an immediate, standard way to see wh…

Can anyone share their experiences with this? My understanding is that the TN will let someone with a CS degree take a "Computer System Analyst" job, but you have to show that the …

The author achieved a big speed increase with a faster disk, more RAM, adding indexes, and rewriting slow queries. The relevant skillset is "knowing a thing or two about databases"…

Nope, the governor signed the bill and said he wouldn't veto it.