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And don't forget the end-to-end project[1], which is the javascript crypto library by google. The significance of these types of project extend beyond browser privacy. As crypto-cu…

Great, another proprietary format. While I want everything to be open and interoperable, I personally work in a startup that aims to make profit. So I also understand the commercia…

I always have a mixed feeling about ruby. The "magic-ism" of ruby is something that I just cannot deal with. "require" gives you methods that appear out of nowhere (unlike other la…

Yeah right. Good luck getting me back onto their platform. Last year, our startup was heavily relying on their yahoo local API. One day, we started having a lot of errors. We inspe…

I want to use this opportunity to open a discussion and get hacker news community's thoughts on preparing code examples. I always find many contrieved examples in coding guides suc…

I am not a functional programmer and I always find that when I read clojure it just looks like layers and layers of nested code. Personally, I find it visually hard to parse. Can s…

I use TOR and I would really like to get a call from comcast so that I can inform Comcast I am using a Navy funded project.

I am so glad that this started off with REGEX. So many coding lessons are so irrelevant to business / law people. No, business people don't need to really learn how to code. They w…

Does it mean we can finally have web-based popcorn time? This is REVOLUTIONARY