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twstdroot

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    Comment #7416586

    I came to the same realization recently. I have a lot of flexibility at work to work on personal projects that relate to my job. Unfortunately work doesn't provide some of the infr…

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    Comment #7416540

    I don't think they are really outside the norm for corporate life. If people were productive at work, we'd need less web proxies to handle the load.

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    Comment #7224678

    I don't think that is an over estimation of the impact of universities. First, are the majority of university educated programmers really learning from CS professors? I'd venture t…

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    Comment #7224671

    No one can (or should) write totally secure code. But there are a lot of simple mistakes leading to XSS and SQLi that can easily be avoided by having some standards.

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    Comment #7193290

    cheap VPS boxes from lowendbox.com work well for this purpose. we also had problems just processing the queue on busy days.

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    Comment #7193274

    speaking from experience ( https://github.com/bryanbrannigan/pastebin-parser ) if you are just grabbing the pastes from the "latest" box you are missing a lot. To grab everything w…

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    Comment #3057154

    Several DNS hosting services do this at varying costs. DurableDNS (which I founded but have sold) does it at a low cost. It's fairly trivial softwarewise as long as you have the re…

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    Comment #3005799

    The best part of that article is the one comment complaining about employers being picky. The person leaving the comment uses "excepting" instead of "accepting" and "thou" instead …

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    Comment #2567697

    >> 1.1.2 Minimize Software to Minimize Vulnerability > >I agree on yum. If the attacker has root and can run yum. It is too late. You missed the point. More software means a larger…

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    Comment #2013183

    I just switched everything to lastpass.com and use it on my home pc, work pc, and iphone. Works great so far.

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    Comment #1168204

    They did pay a small portion... between 3% and 4% "The entire medical bill for seven years, in fact, was steeply discounted. The $618,616 became $254,176 when the insurers paid the…