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This license only applies to the compiled/packaged extension delivered via the extension marketplace. The source code to this VSCode extension is available on Github and is under t…

> But as a layman to cryptography I don't get what is the significant difference between this finding and Levin's. Is there anyone who can explain this to someone with an undergrad…

Not trying to say you can't do it - I'm sure I'm just not informed enough. However, I don't see how MVCC could fix a multi-worker issue that would cause category (1) aborts in your…

Indeed. Don't forget that you now have to come up with a distrbuted atomicity protocol that avoids deadlocks. That's a lot of handwaving.

Exactly - In my opinion there is no "identity theft". There is criminal fraud, which the banks are a victim of. However, instead of dealing with that fraud they just pass the costs…

It actually is a mesh that is disguised as a fabric. It's extremely breathable but more closed than the aeron.

We assesed the Aeron, Mirra 2 and Embody - the Embody won in our office pretty much unanimously. Just over a year later and everyone still loves it.

We are a small shop that has 4 repositories and 36 users (over half the company). About 10 of those users actually contribute code, the others are monitoring issues, pulling code j…

Here's my problem with this article: Return to sanity by adopting what? I work on several small-ish projects, and due to the leads coming and going, there are a smattering of sourc…

No. Firemen have incentive to prevent fires. Home fires don't increase their revenue stream and in fact put them at risk of injury or death. Police are not mandated to prevent crim…

I agree that the SRP is certainly a subjective rather than objective principle, and possibly general guidance that can and should be broken in specific circumstance. This article p…

A technical interview whiteboard code or data structure gotchas or mt. fuji questions is a bad interview. It sucks that most technical interviews are bad, but that means we should …

I'm not sure Jeff's lack of attribution was an oversight since there's a pattern of behavior there. His earliest blogging didn't even have formatting differences between his commen…

And Google Checkout (a paid product) was pulled as well. Google Wallet is a replacement in the same way that Google+ is a replacement for Reader.

Indeed, the writing on this piece is good. And the fact is that the studies bolstering a "10x engineer" belief did have some flaws. However, an couple of anecdotes and some 140-cha…

"a bridge for pedestrians, by a pedestrian". While I applaud his effort, this is why wonderful movies aren't musically scored by the director or writer - they may know what they wa…

Even with this, should they have the final say? I don't think so. They should give you the risks -"he has a criminal record of fraud, and will expose us to some lawsuits that could…

The bar to entry was much higher, both for a project and a potential contributor. But that's not just because of no github Projects had to find a home (sourceforge ended up a major…

"But researchers admit that it does have limitations and will need to be monitored. Although it is has broad conversational abilities, it is not yet sophisticated enough to detect …

It is not (for me). I manage people who's location I want to see in Latitude, which is a tool I use to see people's location. With the combining, I need to manage an entire social …

I'm sorry, I meant that I didn't see any differences from the C# 5.0 specification released in August 2012 and the revision posted here, which was updated in June 2013. I am aware …

A note to those that may be confused: C# 5.0 is the language version used by visual studio 2012, which was released in August of last year, alongside the .net framework 4.5. This i…