Month: May 2017
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Science! (for toddlers)
Nobody is too young for science! Dan shares some of his toddler-friendly science activities.
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Dungeon Classes
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
Sexy Games
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
Found GLQVNXYH Dorchester Dawdle 6
This checkin to GLQVNXYH Dorchester Dawdle 6 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found almost-accidentally with my 3 y/o caching assistant while visiting the festival today. We'd parked in the field and I'd just thought to look at my GPSr to see if there were any caches in the vicinity, …
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun(damental Rights)
The Oxford Belles -
evilpass
Checks how strong your user's password is via questionably ethical means.
Drew DeVault -
Lambda Calculus - Computerphile - YouTube
Computerphile -
Against DNSSEC
All secure crypto on the Internet assumes that the DNS lookup from names to IP addresses are insecure. Securing those DNS lookups therefore enables no meaningful security. DNSSEC does make some attacks against insecure sites harder. But it doesn’t make those attacks infeasible, so sites still need to adopt secure transports like TLS. With TLS …
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Troy Hunt: HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
That's it - I'm calling it - HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass where it's gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past. In just the last few months, there's been some really significant things happen that …
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Extremely Positive People Aren't as Good at Empathy | Big Think
People with extremely sunny attitudes find it difficult to empathize with people who are recounting a negative experience, according to a study recently published at PLOS ONE. Ironically, positive people also reported being better at empathizing than did people who labelled themselves as slightly less than bubbly...
Orion Jones (Big Think) -
How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?
Original question from Quora:
Programmers in our startup usually put 8 hours and go home. I keep reading stories about 80+ hour weeks. How do you make them work longer hours? Do we have to pay overtime? We gave few of them some equity, but it doesn’t seem to work.
My Answer:
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Heroes and Villains (Common Grounds)
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How I got started with Open Source and you can do too.
This is in no way going to be a comprehensive guide on how to get started with open source; its going to be more of a description of my journey.
This might help you if you’re a beginner struggling to make your way into open source...
Lakshay Kalbhor -
Adactio: JournalCode (p)reviews
I’m not a big fan of job titles. I’ve always had trouble defining what I do as a noun—I much prefer verbs (“I make websites” sounds fine, but “website maker” sounds kind of weird).
Mind you, the real issue is not finding the right words to describe what I do, but rather figuring out just what …