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GNU rm has exactly that built-in: $ rm -rf / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’ rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

While static analysis can be quite a powerful tool, it doesn't magically fix everything. Some of the typical web-application vulnerabilities are shell/SQL injections, XSS, and CSRF…

The semantic diff is pretty cool. It will probably be pretty hard to apply that to C (cpp) and Lisp (macros, and especially the programmable readers in some Lisps). But maybe we do…

1.) Yes, I think so. 2.) Don't worry, it has been done before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259695 (That particular instance doesn't work anymore, though)

Is this censored? There's nothing related to copyright infringement or porn in there. Also, the categories and trending/most-searched selection seems arbitrary. Every country has a…

Honestly I don't think pingdom's "faster than x %" message is all that helpful. My homepage is "faster than 100% of all tested websites" (from Amsterdam at least). Since my site is…

No, as others have said these are only recent ones. Here's the real top ten: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&sortb...

This was on /r/programming and now it's here - I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what this is all about. 600 lines doesn't seem ultra-small to me. And Lisp - well sure, not …

I'm not the parent, but I do web development - here's how I understand it: > hard for end users to customise I think, he means that a css-based ("modern") solution would allow end-…

Ideally, there should be a feature that lets you see the personalized (that is, real) search results of others. Maybe divided into target groups ("programmers", "male users under 2…

You could have said the same thing about unix-like operating systems in 1991 - yet, somebody wrote one from scratch without a full-time team. I'm not trying to put this little proj…

I wouldn't call that a "Haskell based browser". 1500 lines of Haskell against maybe 300 KLOC (guessed) of webkit alone. That's not "Haskell based", that's only using Haskell as a g…

What a nice way to find out that my rather old Thinkpad (on Debian testing) now has WebGL support - I only updated everything from time to time, and apparently stuff actually start…

It's funny how one of the relatively few design errors in Unix shells now indirectly comes back to haunt us. Recursing is built into pretty much every command that can handle multi…

The quote doesn't make it an allegation, that's right. The other parts do ("[...] that he has advocated for truly awful practices"). That "fact" is not part of the question and as …

Asking such a loaded question when RMS can't even defend himself is just incredible cheap. If you had genuine interest in knowing whether these allegations are true, you could have…

I have a pet theory about why so many[1] people find him "threatening". I believe it's because people do think it's important what he talks about - but feel he talks about it in th…

Sorry, but I have my Firefox at about 600px width and your logo still obscures the text. User-agent sniffing won't solve this one, you should do media-queries based on the actual w…

Python lends itself quite nicely to code-golfing, that's true. In fact I am constantly amazed of how terse Python code can be, despite the significant whitespace stuff. from os imp…

Using gets() also makes writing exploits much quicker - win-win! ;-) Sorry, I couldn't resist - you are of course right with the general stdio over std::iostream thing, though. I'v…

> It's politically easier to bring on someone new, deal with the productivity hit, and then have them start addressing the systemic technical issues. I can see the reasoning behind…

Reading the article and the comments here, I came to the conclusion that I seemingly don't really use vi. As in: I don't live in it. On a typical day, I work with my files using gr…