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Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers
UPDATE: Turns out, Jacob Holocomb ( @rootHak42 on Twitter) of Independent Security Evaluators found this bug back in April on a different d...
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Why the last 20% of work takes the same amount of time as the first 80%
You know when developers tell you that they did 80% of the application in x days and that they need the same amount of time for the last 20%?
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How I made an Android game from scratch in 23 days
Drone Invaders - a space shootem up with retro graphics and modern gameplay
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37signals Works Remotely [video]
We talk a lot about working remotely. Over 70% of our employees work remotely. They work out of homes, coffee shops, and co-working spaces. They play music, garden, and spend time with their families. We dig working remotely so much we wrote a book about it. Meet some of the fantastic pe…
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Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
This PEP proposes that the Installing Python Modules guide in Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 be updated to officially recommend the use of pip as the default installer for Python packages, and that appropriate technical changes be made in Python 3.4 to provide...
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PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here
PhpStorm 7.0, the new major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!This release keeps up with the latest PHP & web languages trends, providing top-notch support for
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Argue well by losing
I love a good argument. No really! Even ones online.
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What happened to Priceonomics?
I wanted to check the going rate used Nintendo Wii consoles. Sifting through Kijiji was slow and only showed me the price of things which not sold. So I turned to Priceonomics, a site which is supp…
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How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
Most people don't know that you can ship stuff to Amazon's warehouse and have them simultaneously store it and offer it for sale to their customers. — Sounds cool, right?
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The Melancholy of Subculture Society
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
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Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product
My side-business Marginalia has not done well so I decided to put it out to pasture.
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Learn Haskell Fast and Hard
I really believe all developers should learn Haskell. I don’t think everyone needs to be super Haskell ninjas, but they should at least discover what Haskell has to offer. Learning Haskell opens your mind.
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Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
I’ve always been pretty good at math. Not trigonometry, or arithmetic, or whatever people are usually thinking of when they’re like, “Oh, you must be smart! I hate math!” But, combinatorics and gra…
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Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service
An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian , one of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.
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On Hacking
In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker".
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Wysiwtfftwomg
I get the content in Word, copy into the various boxes in the CMS and then see how it looks. Normally I spot a few typos, or it doesn’t appear where I want it to, then I have to go back and find the article again – which isn’t so bad, it’s normally at the top. The real pain is when I have to add another link to that…
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How to escape a monster (using calculus)
You are sitting in a rowing boat in the middle of a circular lake. How do you escape from a smart monster on the shore who can run four times faster than you can row?
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What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
Last Sunday, my post “What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup in Thailand for 6 months” hit #1 on Hacker News and then stayed there for most of the day. He…
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