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If you want to defend against hijackings, the problem you're trying to solve is one that programmers know well: the buffer overflow attack. In a buffer overflow attack, someone giv…

So... political speech is permitted for Rupert Murdoch and G.E., or whoever owns NBC now, but not... who?

Yeah, I think there's a better way to alter democracy than outlawing political speech for everybody except approved major parties. > Require candidates to provide clear answers And…

You're the one claiming there's a huge body of research disproving his claims. Your link upthread points to stuff that supports his argument and other stuff that counts as weak evi…

"Right to work" laws are not what you think they are.

> All sovereign states--be they allies or rogues--have a legitimate claim to and expectation of privacy where their internal dealings are concerned. They're governments . They don'…

This is crazy. Hire engineers that can talk to non-technical people, but then have one of these engineers interview non-technical people to make sure that non-technical people can …

It would be a good idea to make the phone screen more rigorous. Use some etherpad clone-du-jour and have them write code in the phone screen. This way you'll filter out the bozos m…

Um, no? Having more experience with programming would make things easier to understand.

If the T440s comes out soon enough, the Thinkpad T440s with FHD IPS screen. Otherwise... personally I'd go for the T431s. Macbook Airs don't have enough key travel.

It doesn't matter whether it's a majority. A third of people is a large proportion.

I would expect a product named Facemail to be something created by Facebook.

Dvorak does it better -- underscore is on the home row.

MBP with retina display, you mean? Otherwise you're dropping in resolution.

Presumably it's parallelizable. Double the clockspeed, 16x the cores... that'll get you 32x improvement right there, but you've also got way more L3 cache, which might help conside…

It seems you don't understand CPUs very much. You want an "i7", but you're looking at laptops with a wide range of CPU performance. There are two kinds of i7's: dual core and quad …

He didn't write that blinded with rage. He carefully crafted a work of literature. The person he responded to was one of those sociopath fact-assumptors that make every online conv…

So, you are saying what exactly? That there are good games in the App Store? That's not a proposition anybody disputes.

It's a Freenode channel, unsurprisingly. Try IRCing elsewhere.

If or once a string.toLower() function is added to RQL, you'll be able to have case-insensitive indexes in RethinkDB, because you can index on arbitrary functions of your rows.

You also have freedom of scream.

It's a vapid comment that lowers signal:noise, of course it should be downvoted.

Why wouldn't you use goto? It's not like it isn't constrained to the function you're in.