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The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly…
The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly…
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Oh it really is just a summary, and no commentary as to whether TFA was long-winded or not. That's left to decide for each individually.
When you write tl;dr followed by a very short summary, doesn't that itself imply that the article was long?
tl;dr a friendly guy reported to tarsnap that you could sign up without needing the emailed confirmation link by creating that same confirmation link yourself with the cookie/token being hidden, but present in the HTML code. also, there is no bug bounties for the tarsnap website, only for tarsnap code.
a friendly guy reported to tarsnap that you could sign up without needing the emailed confirmation link by creating that same confirmation link yourself with the cookie/token being hidden, but present in the HTML code. That's a decent summary, but I didn't think I was all that long-winded...
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Oh it really is just a summary, and no commentary as to whether TFA was long-winded or not. That's left to decide for each individually.
When you write tl;dr followed by a very short summary, doesn't that itself imply that the article was long?
The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly…
The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly…
I have this with stackoverflow sometimes :p
My weirdest one was when I was searching for an answer to a progamming question and ended up finding (and then contacting) my "long lost" cousin (the name was fairly unusual).
Turns out he became a programmer too.
The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly…