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Stripe returns HTTP 402 ("Payment Required") when a card is declined.

The same logic can apply to flop donk bets. Some flops favor the donking player's range more than their opponent.

This idea is baked into the core of Deno. See, for example, https://deno.land/manual.html#permissionswhitelist .

This approach comes pretty close to solving the problem, but a couple issues are dealbreakers for me: 1) It mutes all notifications, not just non-whitelisted calls. As much as I ha…

Amen. The existing spam call blockers are all based on blacklists, and it's a losing battle against spammers who can simply keep spoofing new numbers. I'm working on an app (iphone…

Has anyone used both Ktor and Javalin and have any advice for choosing between the two?

Scrolling on chrome (via the keyboard) has become incredibly slow and janky. One example: log in to twitter, click any tweet, then click outside the lightbox to return to the main …

Another thorough review of water filters: http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-water-filter-pitcher/

The branch equivalent is `git checkout foo --`. I wrote a simple shell script[1] that makes that the default, requiring you to do `-- ` for files, so there's never a possibility of…

> won't give you cancer. Untrue. "Smokeless tobacco is a major cause of oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, and esophageal cancer." http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/features/snus…

No need to clutter your code with a bunch of try wrappers like this suggests. There's a much better way. It turns out that in a typical web app, a handful of operations account for…

Personally, I'd prefer a world with suppressed donations over one with suppressed accurate objections. Or, you know, we could work towards a world where we have neither.

X-chromosome inactivation is actually consistent with X-linked "recessive" conditions, but it's a little tricky, and the wikipedia page doesn't really explain it. Basically, X-link…

For a similar library with a slightly different take, check out plumbum: http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html Here's the explanation on the differences: "The project…

There's no consensus that "reducing the damage done by some security holes" is a good thing? Bernstein mentions it as a distraction (which may be true), but it's better than doing …