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Re:The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:45AM (#45981720)
> Build an organisation which won't crumble the moment its founder is arrested for their predatory behaviour on tropical islands.

Or gets convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife.

Re:Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:25PM (#20538067)
Marcus said he'd rather stay in LA : https://twitter.com/malwaretechblog/status/11448663098568294...
Re:Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:49PM (#20537805)
In spite of the district court's merciful sentence, he has committed an aggravated felony in the eyes of immigration law and so is barred from ever entering the US again. For life.
Re:Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:43PM (#17828675)
Have you contracted an independent pen-testing company to assess your design and implementation?
Re:Where grep came from [video] on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:19PM (#17480946)
... please repeat after me: gif.
Re:The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:22PM (#17436794)
From the article:

> The last value "2019 05 01" contains the temporary information "？？_？_??????_?"

Re:United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf] on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:51AM (#16858847)
Azure does have sovereign clouds, for instance its Germany cloud. [1] In this case data is handled by a German company and not Microsoft and so is subject to EU law.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...

Re:Ask HN: What are the best tools for code reviews? on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:36AM (#15723467)
My favorite tool is a Microsoft internal tool called CodeFlow. If you don't want to work for them just to have a great code review experience, I recommend https://reviewable.io . Very nice!
Re:Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video] on Saturday October 28, 2017 @11:37PM (#15577855)
Well, a Brazilian priest attempted a similar feat in 2008[1]. He won the 2008 Darwin Award for it [2].

[1] https://gizmodo.com/5022283/sad-ending-flying-priest-found-d...

[2] http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html

Re:Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows ... on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:30AM (#14297739)
Not to belittle MSFT's ability but a high quality repro helps immensely.
Re:RegExr: Learn, Build, and Test RegEx on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:00PM (#13600424)
Online regex testers are nice but nothing beats RegexBuddy [1] IMO. I have fond memories of me using it while on high school to naively parse HTML using regular expressions only. Good times.

[1] http://www.regexbuddy.com/

Re:Flight rules for Git – What to do when things go wrong on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:06PM (#8102979)
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (Interactive help): http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
Re:Put an end to people mispronouncing your name on Thursday July 03, 2014 @12:08PM (#7983900)
Remembers me of "How do you pronounce 'Bjarne Stroustrup?'": http://www.stroustrup.com/pronounciation.wav