Ruby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before…
15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should Know
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
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seriously, the guy has a point
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I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. I have occasionally added a comment or two to some of the online discussions about the statue.
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You’re eating recursion!
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How a bullet turns into a beep
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Here’s a minor mystery:
echo •That last character is U+2022. Select that line with the mouse, right-click, and select Copy to copy it to the clipboard. Now go to a command prompt and paste it and hit Enter.
You’d expect a • to be printed, but instead you get a beep. What happened?
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Would You Edit Your Child’s Genome?
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Code Quality 3
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Dungeon Classes
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Sexy Games
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun(damental Rights)
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evilpass
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Checks how strong your user’s password is via questionably ethical means.
Lambda Calculus – Computerphile – YouTube
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Against DNSSEC
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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 properly configured, DNSSEC adds nothing…
Troy Hunt: HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
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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 have caused me to make this call, here’s why I think we’re now at that tipping point…
Extremely Positive People Aren’t as Good at Empathy | Big Think
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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…