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I managed to get to about 30 seconds with 65,000 files on a local ext3 file system. The file names where all of the same length and with a ~100 character long identical prefix. I r…

Maybe there should be a mechanism that punishes / fines users who post links to stolen content and marks / blocks such sites.

There is a huge difference. I'm not bothered one little bit about logged-in / opt-in users or those who chose to install a plug in. My concern is specifically with a visitor who di…

I noticed that they are using CDN from day one. What's the rational behind it? How much complexity the CDN integration adds to the code and procedures? Is the number of images they…

> Please note that this webpage is using HTML5 Does the page uses HTML5 features, or just syntax?

Isn't that borderline phishing, Seriously? I'm thinking about a naive visitor, who doesn't have an account with Plurchase. If s/he now tries to login to Zappos, Plurchase sees and …

The lazy function technique can easily become an example of bad coding practice. Code needs to be easy to read, understand, and maintain. In most cases solution 2 is good enough, i…

Coming up with the right name for a variable or a function can easily become the most difficult part of my day. I always wanted to open variable and function names consultancy.

When you find a bug, by all means, go ahead and fix it. (Well, not always. You need to make sure your fix is not likely to introduce a more severe bug. Not all bugs made equal and …

I wonder how many files with a name containing \n are in the wild. And if you encounter such a file, does it really matter if you accidentally delete it? Waisting brain cycles to s…

I'm not sure, exactly, to which discussion does that contribute.

> It’s a mystery to me why more organizations don’t hide what their people are doing online (ask any 12 year old computer enthusiast how this is done if you don’t know), but for wh…

He is talking about a site that it took one person one day to rewrite. Then he writes: '''Ruby’s inheritance, metaprogramming, flexible mixins, and testing culture support a fantas…

markitforlater.com on the footer is missing the l and reads markitforater.com.

AFAIK, one of the browsers (probably IE), ignores query parameters on css and js files and will not refresh foo.css?v=2 if it has foo.css?v=1 in its cache.

Excuse my French, what's QR?

The URL system is a dead end. There are just not enough good, or just reasonable, domain names out there. A drill-down method, for example, a simple search and a selection among a …

Is it a light bulb? Is it a Yonic symbol? Is Yonic the opposite of Phallic?