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by DCoder 8y ago
The Unix-Haters Handbook also has a story about backcompat: > Way back in the early 1980s, before each of the bugs in Unix had such a large cult following, a programmer at BBN actually fixed the bug in Berkeley’s `make` that requires
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by DCoder 8y ago
> as long as I delete Array.prototype.whatever first, I get an enumerable property when I polyfill it. The key point there is "deleting first". If you assign to a property without deleting it first, it continues to be non-enu
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by DCoder 8y ago
Even if their implementation is identical to the standard, it is still problematic. The key problem is the way MooTools tries to copy over that method (and many other methods): > Currently, Array.prototype.flatten = mooToolsFlattenImple
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by DCoder 8y ago
It should be pointed out that the README is wrong about the race condition – it is not limited to /dev/console, you can use the -e option to point it to a different output device.
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by DCoder 8y ago
> Is this an OpenSSL bug? > No. > How do I uninstall Linux? > Please follow instructions. Shirley it's not meant as a serious resource.
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by DCoder 8y ago
That section says: > there's only one file opening, and while there is a potential race condition there, it's with /dev/console. If someone can exploit this race by replacing /dev/console, you've got
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by DCoder 8y ago
If you're connected to a remote server, `echo` will annoy you and your cat, but `beep` will annoy the server administrator :)
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by DCoder 9y ago
> I swear these people must sit F5-spamming their review queue, just itching to flag every question possible. Hey, you have to earn those sweet internet points somehow... Gamification has its downsides like this.
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by DCoder 9y ago
One simplistic state machine in web/mobile is mouse/swipe motion handling – mousedown transitions into "in motion" state, mousemove tracks that state, mouseup transitions into "finished motion" state, runs even
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by DCoder 9y ago
And some of us in Eastern Europe are expecting -24 °C .
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by DCoder 9y ago
> a lot of JavaScript packages are written in awkward ways that makes lots of assumptions about the packages loaded, the order of the load, monkey patching require, and a whole lot of other oddities And therein lies the bigger problem.
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by DCoder 9y ago
In theory, that's all you need. In reality, though… "Can we make it scroll to section 1 slowly, so the user sees what's going on?" "The heading of section 1 gets covered by the sticky top menu bar, change it so scro
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by DCoder 9y ago
Welcome to magpie-driven development – "just glue it together and move on".
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by DCoder 9y ago
Look at any other website - is there a FB Like button saying "25 of your friends liked this"? Congratulations, FB now knows you visit that site.
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by DCoder 9y ago
I have seen sites where the "Download this foobar" link only works when the referrer is the "Details of this foobar" page, where the download link is placed. If you sent a referrer of some other page on the site, e.g. th
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by DCoder 9y ago
Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon [0]. [0]: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...
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by DCoder 9y ago
There's a plugin for IntelliJ IDEs called "PHP Inspections (EA Extended)" [0] that detects some of these compatibility and security problems. [0]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7622-php-inspections
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by DCoder 9y ago
There was also an episode of The Twilight Zone with the same plot [0]. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Z...
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by DCoder 9y ago
Semi-related: there's a startup in Denmark [0] trying to do this for parcel/freight transportation. I'm not sure how well they're doing, though. [0] https://www.badabring.com/ (link in Danish)
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by DCoder 9y ago
Just keep in mind that Technic design is substantially different from regular Lego design, and even the main "bricks" (liftarms) have slightly different dimensions than System ones. Connecting Technic with System is an art in itse
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by DCoder 9y ago
This would make a great story for The Daily WTF: https://what.thedailywtf.com/
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by DCoder 9y ago
I tried it - I lost nearly 25% my weight (down from 132 kg to 101 kg) over this year by eating less and walking on foot a lot more. Eating less is certainly having a lesser effect than it did at first, but I'm still losing weight bit b
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by DCoder 9y ago
Does "all user input prefilled" include file uploads?
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by DCoder 9y ago
You can see overall statistics for CAs at [0] or [1]. Google recently created its own CA for its properties [2]. [0]: https://trends.builtwith.com/ssl/root-authority [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by DCoder 9y ago
See also SCM Breeze [0], which shortens git commands even more: git status -> gs git add -> ga git commit -> gc ... [0]: https://github.com/scmbreeze/scm_breeze
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by DCoder 9y ago
It's quite possible they did do that. For example, Angular parses your source to perform Dependency Injection based on argument names.
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by DCoder 9y ago
A simple example could be the Twitter API's handling for references (URLs/hashtags/at-user mentions) in a tweet [0]. The tweet text is returned in one field, and all references are listed in a different field together with fi
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by DCoder 9y ago
Then again, a project with <20 dependencies has fewer "entry points" for this attack than a typical NPM project with 500+ transitive dependencies.
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by DCoder 9y ago
MySQL's silent data truncation is such a nuisance. It's off by default in 5.7, and can be disabled in earlier versions by adding STRICT_ALL_TABLES/STRICT_TRANS_TABLES to sql_mode [1]. I inherited a system where, among other t
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by DCoder 9y ago
The old Command & Conquer series (Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2, 1999/2000) still have an active mod community. A significant factor is a few dedicated people who reverse-engineer the engine and make C++ patches/additions to i

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