Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
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seriously, the guy has a point
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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Gregory Fallis -
You're eating recursion!
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How a bullet turns into a beep
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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Raymond Chen … -
Would You Edit Your Child's Genome?
Idea Channel -
Code Quality 3
XKCD -
Dungeon Classes
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
Sexy Games
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
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...
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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:
I’m going …