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Perhaps SO could include the titles of questions marked as duplicate somewhere in the markup so that Google indexes it?

I think this highlights that while there are easy solutions to the problem the OP faced, they're difficult for a newcomer to discover. (I have been using Rust for a couple of month…

I think the key part is "regardless of where they come from". For instance, Scotland has free tuition for the Scottish and other EU citizens, but not for citizens of England/Wales/…

I do the same, as do others on my team. If we see an XXX in code-review, then we know someone commited something they didn't mean to.

The firmware signature ensures the updates are authentic, but not that they are fresh. An attacker could force devices to stay on an older authentic but vulnerable piece of softwar…

Arguably someone adhering to the C++ Core Guidelines, using GSL and using the new static analysis tools (currently only in VS?) can be reasonably confident about choosing C++ for a…

The article asks an interesting question which casts doubt on this theory: why does the UK ban affect UK airlines too?

I don't imagine many start-ups buy them new. My previous employer bought a bunch of Aeron chairs second-hand (from other failed start-ups...)

Fantastic. Maybe hide the word "MSDN" somewhere in the page, just for search engines. Old habits die hard. :) Slightly off-topic, but would it be possible to reinstate the code sam…

Fantastic! Thanks a lot in any case. I do find the image of "fighting the borrow checker" is quite harmful to how people view Rust. As those links state, an important aspect of tea…

The new content looks a lot better, but I think it is a shame that this is not using the "MSDN" branding. One of the nicest things about Microsoft documentation is that I can add t…

Could you provide an example where the borrowing would cause issues for immutable data? I'm still learning Rust, but I thought the fact that you could have as many immutable borrow…

It is not written in Python, it is written in RPython: > So this is written in Python? > It's actually written in RPython, the same language PyPy is written in. make build_with_jit…

Opening it in a text editor is not sufficient. With clever use of 'sleep' you can even have the server return a malicious payload only if it thinks its getting immediately piped to…

No, he doesn't: > For request, a full rewrite made sense because urllib sucked so much and we had no good alternatives.

This is called a Unikernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel > Unikernels are specialised, single address space machine images constructed by using library operating systems…

I don't think it supports any browsers via plugin. You use a separate app to unlock your keychain, it places the relevant password on your clipboard and then it clears the clipboar…

> More likely because it's not available on-premise. Check into how many use HipChat instead, because it is. Just one data-point, but: my employer went with HipChat because we need…

I can't get it to look like a crater, no matter where I pretend the light's coming from. It's always a dome for me.

Does the government require this arbitrarily, or because that's the will of the people? Here in the UK, we have Sunday trading laws which limit how long shops can be open on a Sund…

Or TenFour refers to the announcement date: 10/4.

It's well worth reading the original 'Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager' chapter from 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things': https://a16z.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/good-produ…

I've attempted to do Coursera's ML course, but I am not very good at learning from videos - I much prefer reading a text book and then attempting the problems in my own time. Are t…

If you have `pbpaste | sh -` on your clipboard and then paste it into a terminal, it'll continually execute itself. (`pbpaste | sh - | pbpaste | sh - | pbpaste | sh - | ... | pbpas…

> if someone has those rights, you're already screwed. I think that this was once true, but Secure Boot was an attempt to improve the situation. My understanding is that Microsoft'…