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This is the bible of regex. Its explanation of "unrolling the loop" will change how you write regular expressions if you don't already use that technique. Its discussion of the ope…

Read Nimzowitsch's "My System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_System Everything you need is in that book. It's not too long, and very readable. It has a very common-sense approa…

I think the point is that with so many source IPs, blacklisting techniques are pointless, and given the duration of the attack, timeouts are useless too. What is better is a IP whi…

I believe that the vast majority of email users want nothing but free webmail.

Ah, a long time since I first signed up, maybe the prices have changed, maybe not, but either way you're getting a lot more storage with Gmail for the price.

Google services remain hugely strong, sometimes it all reeks of the desire to make a story out of nothing, like how a national press will play up some pointless political intrigue.…

Fastmail's not an alternative. I use it and it's great, but with Gmail you're talking 15GB+ free, and the ticker and 2GB was what set Gmail apart in the first place when it was inv…

There's a long way to go before building permanent structures on the Moon is a possibility (meteoroid detection/destruction, understanding seismic activity, etc.), but its far side…

The Gentoo documentation is a programming guide and doesn't advise on style. The Google style guide doesn't explain [[ because it is out of scope.

Google is likely supporting Solaris for customers or for users of their open source software.

0: Little interest in real currency, zero interest in new ones.

> 37signals is an outlier because their readers are potential customers Your readers are always potential customers.

Feature request: Oscar the Grouch in the trash can. I noticed that ejecting the Kid Pix disk made the machine unusable.

Upmodded for the dose of reality provided by the blog post's comments...

"The breakthrough could lead to systems for rendering anything from people to large objects, such as tanks and ships, invisible to the eye – although this is still years off." Clos…