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Re:Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:24PM (#7900609)
Stalls after clicking "suite" of creating the public key
Re:Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today? on Sunday June 15, 2014 @03:24PM (#7896034)
Depends on the backer. I would give more credit to a study by the FDA than by coca-cola
> [1] Not counting the products themselves as viruses.

Pretty bold assumption IMO

Re:Swift impressions on Sunday June 08, 2014 @07:22PM (#7866298)
> At its core, the language is designed to eliminate bugs, but not in the academic way that, say, Haskell eliminates bugs by preventing normal people from writing code in it

Shots fired

Re:ProtonMail: End-to-end encrypted email on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:55AM (#7846301)
It appears they silently closed a critical vulnerability recently [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/StackSmashing/status/474214532114812928

It's getting harder because they keep adding/enabling countermeasures like ASLR, NX, RELRO, FORTIFY_SOURCE
Re:The Heartbleed Bug on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:44PM (#7549770)
You'll need to replace them ASAP, once github updated their version of ssh . But if they run on 0.9.8 branch, you don't have to worry.
Re:The Heartbleed Bug on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:42PM (#7549754)
Unless you installed the macports version, which is 1.0.1f
Re:Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @03:22PM (#6996411)
It says 'PDA' in the first paragraph. That makes it looks old
Re:Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor on Friday December 27, 2013 @08:00AM (#6970447)
Scrolling is unusable on mountain lion.
Re:My Hardest Bug on Thursday December 19, 2013 @02:09PM (#6936994)

   I spent three days in coffee shops with a pen and paper taking first and then second derivatives of the Winkel Tripel formula
I felt bad for you reading that. There are loads of tools to do it automatically (matlab, wolfram, etc).
Re:Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js on Thursday December 19, 2013 @07:16AM (#6934179)
That's using a callback, like express or connect does. What's new in koa is the use of js generators
Yes that was the point
Darwin's theory proven right once again