Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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What I Didn't Understand as a Junior Programmer
I remember the first time I saw a codebase over a million lines. It was at my internship, a large 10+ year old system, in multiple languages, thousands of unit tests, organized into several projects and dll's that would take the whole night to recompile. Some of the projects had complex build processes, requiring extensive …
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Smoke and maglev spinning top
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In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life
They call it “the easy life” for a reason.
I got my degree from a small, public college in upstate New York.
People went there, got their degrees and then went off to have quiet and sometimes boring lives. Although a degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) system is a valuable commodity outside of … -
Security Vulnerability
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Earth Temperature Timeline
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Quake
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Teach a Man to Fish
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I'll eat the third option, please
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Why GNU grep is fast
I am the original author of GNU grep. I am also a FreeBSD user,
although I live on -stable (and older) and rarely pay attention
to -current.
However, while searching the -current mailing list for an unrelated
reason, I stumbled across some flamage regarding BSD grep vs GNU grep
performance. You may have noticed that discussion too...
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The Queen of Code
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I Want to See a Gender-Swapped Version of Every Movie. Literally Every One.
In case you haven’t heard, Splash – the 1984 fantasy romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks as the man who falls in love with a mermaid Daryl Hannah – is being remade, with Channing Tatum as the mermaid.
I like this.
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When your headline takes up half the page
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History of the browser user-agent string
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing...
WebAIM
Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as "Mozilla"? Wonder no longer... -
How Learning To Be Vulnerable Can Make Life Safer - Empathy increases Shell oil workers' safety by 83%
Men who worked on oil rigs lived by certain rules. They were tough. They worked under any conditions. They didn't ask questions. It was this way as far back as Tommy Chreene, 60, who started working on rigs in the Gulf of Mexico back when he was 15, can remember.
Back then, it wasn't unusual to …